Example sentences of "was [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the control patients pyloric loss was 16.8 ml h - 1 before smoking and was unchanged afterwards ; an apparent rise in the duodenal ulcer patients from 30 ml h - 1 to 37.5 ml h - 1 ( 25% ) was not significant ( Table I ) . |
| 2 | A gluten free diet was started and over the next two months there was 2.3 kg weight gain and symptomatic improvement . |
| 3 | Does not that contrast sharply with the complete mess that the Government inherited from the Labour party in 1979 , when there was low police morale , low police pay and the police were way under strength ? |
| 4 | It considered that there was strong community support for such legislation , which came into effect in 1981 . |
| 5 | However , according to Dave Ball — who was European Marketing Director for Artisoft at the time but has now switched camps to take up the same role at Performance — the deal fell through at the end of last year . |
| 6 | He knew that his slowness was annoying James Grierson . |
| 7 | The maximum value found was 850 g/t U within a 15 m intersection . |
| 8 | Unfortunately it was classic summer weather . |
| 9 | One of the earliest signs was short-term memory loss . |
| 10 | The membership ban would make sense if it was Labour Party policy to expel Northern Ireland from the UK immediately after coming to power . |
| 11 | In a letter replying to these allegations , Newman is very adamant this was not the case , insisting instead that Thomas was confusing Doctor Who with the Pathfinders series . |
| 12 | No longer would youth and its culture have such a power to affect society as it had had for those brief few years from 1963 to 1967 : although the sharp end of youth culture was confusing purchasing power with political power and demanding change , many of its constituents were caught by the freeze that , introduced the previous year , signified the end of the ten-year boom that had thrust youth into prominence . |
| 13 | She was eight years Lewis 's senior , and a woman of high intellectual abilities . |
| 14 | WHEN Boris Yeltsin last visited Britain , one of the things that really impressed him was private health care , not exactly a socialist ideal . |
| 15 | I do n't know exactly what it was , but er er it was potted meat sandwiches er and tea . |
| 16 | His address was 74 Charlotte Street , Portland Place , and his friend Craig , who lived in London was probably one of the influences in his going to London . |
| 17 | What REALLY pissed me off though was Girly Perm Keegan saying he could understand Leeds selling Le Turd because ‘ he had too much class for them to handle ’ . |
| 18 | Among the stars at Warren Farm in Culham near Abingdon was triple world champion Dave Thorpe , giving his new Honda bike a good airing . |
| 19 | The latest was 74-year-old Musa Anter , a prominent Kurdish writer , who was shot in the heart and head on 20 September during a visit to Diyarbakir . |
| 20 | It was strange seeing nuns outside . |
| 21 | His victim was Hikurangi laboratory technician Bernie Hately . |
| 22 | ‘ They were n't normal fireworks , ’ said Gavin Birkett , who was assistant floor manager on the first two series . |
| 23 | And it also managed to chip some of the woodwork , curious to think that I was offered as war damage compensation five pounds to re-case the piano , you could n't of had it repolished for five pounds , but thinking was working class people should n't have pianos , I 'm certain that was at the back of , of the gentleman whose job it was to evaluate war damage , he certainly raised his eyebrows every time we told him , what either a piece of furniture or crockery or cutlery which had been destroyed had cost and he was so foolish after er the house had been almost flattened as de demand bills as proof of evidence that your figures were correct |
| 24 | Among them was ten-year-old Harry Katz . |
| 25 | It was possible Mrs Fribbins bruise was caused by accident or by someone else . |
| 26 | It was possible Mrs Fribbins bruise was caused by accident or by someone else . |
| 27 | In addition , given that they had little , if any , social contact with the ‘ older ’ user group , there was little street wisdom about the consequences of heroin use . |
| 28 | It was also noted that there was little family concern for Todd and since his coming to the home his parents had been divorced . |
| 29 | In the period after 1945 the Liberals were at a very low ebb and had significant support only in rural areas of Scotland , Wales and South-West England where industrial development was largely absent and so there was little trade union activity . |
| 30 | The general SVQ in technology was particularly attractive to us , as our construction section was suffering , at least temporarily , from the economic downturn , and whilst there was little training activity in the building sector , it was being predicted that this was not likely to be a long-term situation . |