Example sentences of "was [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It considered that there was strong community support for such legislation , which came into effect in 1981 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Unfortunately it was classic summer weather . |
| 4 | One of the earliest signs was short-term memory loss . |
| 5 | The membership ban would make sense if it was Labour Party policy to expel Northern Ireland from the UK immediately after coming to power . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | WHEN Boris Yeltsin last visited Britain , one of the things that really impressed him was private health care , not exactly a socialist ideal . |
| 8 | I do n't know exactly what it was , but er er it was potted meat sandwiches er and tea . |
| 9 | Among the stars at Warren Farm in Culham near Abingdon was triple world champion Dave Thorpe , giving his new Honda bike a good airing . |
| 10 | It was strange seeing nuns outside . |
| 11 | His victim was Hikurangi laboratory technician Bernie Hately . |
| 12 | ‘ They were n't normal fireworks , ’ said Gavin Birkett , who was assistant floor manager on the first two series . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Someone was balancing precariously on a ladder , inserting four-foot candles into gilt sockets on the wall while his partner was hanging gold balloons and purple streamers below . |
| 15 | Them was used college puddings . |
| 16 | In only four patients was deficient iron intake the sole cause for the anaemia found although 27 ( 57% ) had dietary intakes less than the reference nutrient intake . |
| 17 | There was fabulous boat fishing in Cardigan Bay for four Merseyside anglers on board the charter boat ‘ Sea Bryn ’ . |
| 18 | What she died of was acute liver failure . ’ |
| 19 | What was at stake was acute government embarrassment . |
| 20 | There was extensive building work — the excise duty on 441,515 bricks is recorded as £23 18/4½d . |
| 21 | There was extensive ground cover of polar willows , yellow and white whitlow-grass , scurvy grass and many others . |
| 22 | A detailed ultrasound assessment was undertaken before the procedure to determine : ( a ) the position of the gall bladder to ensure that it was suitable for safe percutaneous puncture ; ( b ) the size and stone load of the gall bladder to ensure that there was adequate working space for the lithotrite and that a vortex could be achieved ; and ( c ) the function of the gall bladder by use of a standard fat stimulus . |
| 23 | He hobbled through the first available door , which was marked Adjutant General , and saw a red-faced major seated behind the desk . |
| 24 | In May 1977 the policy was amended , when it was decided to concentrate on a few tourist growth points in areas of rural depopulation where there was unrealized tourist potential . |
| 25 | I was English Language Tutor on all three of the courses outlined just now . |
| 26 | I was interested to see that the first thing for which the Cambodians and Vietnamese asked — even before getting rid of mines in Cambodia — was English language training . |
| 27 | When I was a child he was selling insurance , then he was offloading imported sheepskin coats in the London street markets , then it was free range eggs . |
| 28 | The A N C and other organizations were unbanned there was free activity people can meet others across the colour line if they so wish but basically the apartheid structures are in place still . |
| 29 | Not until 1918 was universal manhood suffrage introduced on the basis of ( six months ' ) residence . |
| 30 | But she had no idea that the ‘ customer ’ who paid her £400 for five sachets of cocaine was Daily Mirror reporter Jill Turner — and that the transaction was being recorded on video . |