Example sentences of "was an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is equally true that Lord Diplock has stated that the normal presumption is that Parliament intends questions of law to be decided by the courts , but his Lordship did not state that this was an irrebuttable presumption . |
| 2 | A family of princes responding to their father 's directives , and pulling together when any one of them was challenged , was an unbeatable instrument of government . |
| 3 | Though in the event this was an addled Parliament , it was by no means fainéant . |
| 4 | Harkin , serving his second term as senator after five terms in the House of Representatives , was an unabashed liberal ; a populist of working-class stock and thus able to appeal to the Democrats ' traditional constituency , his abrasiveness could alienate middle-class voters . |
| 5 | In an age when most politicians affect a drearier-than-thou respectability , Brown , even when he ran the Foreign Office in the late 1960s , was an unabashed publicity-seeker . |
| 6 | He really was an underresourced juvenile , that Murray . |
| 7 | She was an exemplary country lass and pleased her father very much for being so , although her mother was sometimes nervous . |
| 8 | In fairness , George thought , Elaine was an exemplary housewife . |
| 9 | It was an exemplary Scargill performance in the long and honourable tradition of working-class orators who combine politics with pleasure — hard facts , immaculate timing and lots of jokes at the expense of the class enemy . |
| 10 | At the time it was an embryonic sabotage unit . |
| 11 | The only passion involved in this operation was an overmastering desire to see her nailed down in a brown box . |
| 12 | It was an isolating experience with penalties for those constables who wished to exchange civilities with their peers or with passers-by . |
| 13 | He said she was an avant-garde feminist who — when he first met her — was proud of the fact that she already had a child whose father no one knew . |
| 14 | It was an epic fight . |
| 15 | Black has not played since the 3-1 defeat by Spain in Seville last April and was an unused substitute in the two Baltic end of the season fixtures . |
| 16 | There was an unused scullery leading off a passage between the kitchen and the back door which was used as a collecting point for unwanted items from the headland ; clothes , bric-à-brac , books and old magazines . |
| 17 | The reason why they did so was that in the case of man neoteny was an evolutionary trend largely in the service of ego and superego development . |
| 18 | Altogether it was an expensive holiday for which he crossed to Le Havre on 8 August . |
| 19 | The verbatim reproduction in print of the political speech was an expensive exercise which was not usually rewarded with increased sales and so , by the 1900s , the political leader and the political speech had been replaced with shortened accounts and by a flood of ‘ news ’ stories . |
| 20 | Inside the railing was an expensive desk and behind that was an expensive brunette . |
| 21 | Another ‘ front page ’ dress was an expensive mistake for the Royal Command Performance in 1979 . |
| 22 | The earthquake , of course , was an expensive nuisance , but earthquakes had never been particularly rare events in Italy , so little significance was attached to it . |
| 23 | But it was an expensive raincoat , because one of its buttons is a small radio transmitter . |
| 24 | The airport hotel was an expensive way to live , but they gave him a trade reduction , which seemed the logically absurd extension of a farcical situation . |
| 25 | ‘ It was an expensive book too , though fortunately I had n't spent any money on it . |
| 26 | She was an expensive woman , all in suede , come by car from north of the river . |
| 27 | The villagization programme was an expensive allocation of development resources , as well as a political disaster . |
| 28 | A folio edition was an expensive item , but even cheaper quarto editions of most writers were not available readily . |
| 29 | Fun was an expensive commodity that many of the women could no longer afford . |
| 30 | Up to that time much of the flight recorder work had been handled under contract by a private company specialising in data processing under the supervision of our specialist , but it was an expensive arrangement and I felt the activity should be completely under our own control . |