Example sentences of "was [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the crime was accidental the family of the deceased may collect ‘ blood money ’ . |
| 2 | There was no doubting her sister 's passion as she struggled to express her resentment , writing : — on my life Lily I declare I want only what is best for the child and would not be Cruel to him nor the cause of Cruelty and what you asked was Cruel the child knowing no Italian and being Fearful of leaving me the only Mother he has known and who he loves as his own . |
| 3 | To put the price into perspective Mr Vernon added that although the 18-knot Arun class building programme was complete the price would now be somewhere around £800,000 . |
| 4 | After that implementation was complete the firm was forced to scale down what had grown into a moderately large development organisation , and retreated from view somewhat , concentrating on customising software , testing and consultancy . |
| 5 | As was usual the government released no economic statistics considered reliable by international commentators . |
| 6 | I 'm usually quite clear-minded , but it was strange the way my unconscious set to work , pushing back my maternal goalposts and persuading me that another year or two would do my hoped-for child no harm . ’ |
| 7 | The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case . |
| 8 | I even saw one video of a council meeting where an irate councillor , having virtually dug himself into a trench in an attempt to protect his interests in the face of strategic questioning by the YCCC , actually lost his cool and demanded that an old man who was tape-recording the meeting should either stop recording or get out ! |
| 9 | Babs Osborne said it was odd the way Stella was always around when tragedy struck . |
| 10 | More generally , and more importantly , this was a classic case in which it was possible the jury could be tempted to convict W by association with his co-accused against whom the evidence was stronger . |
| 11 | Of course it was possible the van was parked there only because the man was inside destroying coypu or moles or rats or woodworm , but somehow Adam did n't think so . |
| 12 | It was hopeless the way he charmed her . |
| 13 | Where clients were already in an institution , or about to be admitted , when the development officers received their names as referrals , they generally accepted that there was little the Home Support Project could do . |
| 14 | If this was not forthcoming , then there was little the headteacher could do to encourage training . |
| 15 | Both arrived poste-haste , but there was little the doctor could do . |
| 16 | When he was upset the noise was all inside him . |
| 17 | By the time Gullholm was in full view she was sorry the crossing was over . |
| 18 | He 'd said he was sorry the incident had occurred and had asked her if she 'd like him to make her some Ovaltine . |
| 19 | A WIDOW whose arm was bitten off by an alligator said yesterday she was sorry the creature was later killed . |
| 20 | Rumour was rife the length and breadth of Europe . |
| 21 | Therefore an adjective which has the effect of qualifying a property rather than an entity will not occur in ordinary predicative position ( nor in postnominal attributive position ) ; this prediction is confirmed by the unacceptability of sentences such as : ( 11 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere a scoundrel complete must have taken my umbrella the cousins distant were put at a separate table If the adjectives in ( 12 ) are acceptable , reflexion shows at once that they are adjectives with more than one meaning , and the one which appears in predicative position is not that in which they are sense-qualifiers : ( 12 ) their village is distant and hard to reach burning his licence was wholly lawful the set complete is worth 1500 francs |
| 22 | To sum up , if examples such as those in ( 28 ) and that in ( 29 ) are all ungrammatical , as we can readily agree , it is for different reasons : ( 28 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere ( 29 ) the man is very The adjectives in ( 28 ) lead to incoherence because , as already observed , they are specialized to qualify a property , and so they are incoherent in the predicative construction , which assigns the adjective property to the entity of the subject , not to its sense . |
| 23 | I was grateful the bar was empty . |
| 24 | Purvis , was that the name ? |
| 25 | ‘ Normally this other young man-Freely , was that the name ? — would have been in charge ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Was that the boy in the sick bay ? |
| 27 | Was that the station master Aye . |
| 28 | And was that the kind of er was it still all mainly military type of work that you , you were doing , even after the war ? |
| 29 | And was that the price he 'd be expected to pay for his dream ? |
| 30 | ‘ Was that the phone ? ’ |