Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The days of the Prize Ring were such a brutal business , fought under rules which enabled men to inflict terrible injuries on each other , and fights were fought to a finish when a man was downed and had been battered into insensibility . |
| 2 | No doubt the other woman had been regarding her with covert suspicion all along — and who could wonder at her resentment when her lover was such a fickle character ? |
| 3 | ‘ Ken was such a brilliant bloke that if he had an idea of how to deliver a line , he 'd try to find a way to block it . |
| 4 | As Bourn was such a new station , we only had the bare essentials in the way of equipment , mainly the Stevenson Screen with its thermometers , an aneroid barometer in the office and the aforementioned teleprinter . |
| 5 | Probably creative work was all the real satisfaction he obtained in those stressful years . |
| 6 | Mrs Field was such a grand lady , and eventually I moved to Lartington to become her lady 's maid . |
| 7 | As an example , Drucker quoted the case of Crown-Zellerbach , a big West-Coast pulp and paper manufacturer , which found that long-range forest management was such an important activity that it had to be established as a separate department , because otherwise it would not be given the attention its importance warranted . |
| 8 | So I put the microchi chip in place the time machine was ready the next day I put one of them down so I typed in ancient Egypt and then I put oh and by the way I wa I 'm called Professor Plop because when I landed in ancient Egypt there was a big plop ! |
| 9 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
| 10 | ‘ In fact , she really was n't a businesswoman ; marketing was such a nasty word to her . |
| 11 | Short was such a brilliant child player that he was paying tax on his winnings at 12 — although schoolwork came less easily and he only managed four O-levels . |
| 12 | ‘ I decided not to go with the Parslows , ’ she announced , as though she were saying the most reasonable thing in the world , but her lips were numb with fright , Papa was such a hard man to defy . |
| 13 | If a second reminder was unsuccessful no further action was taken . |
| 14 | Joyce lay dead , shot through the head ; and the squire was half-carrying the wounded captain . |
| 15 | What is less clear , however , is the extent to which the IMF was shoulder-charging an open door in this respect , that is , whether Labour leaders had already lost their faith in public expenditure . |
| 16 | Benjamin indicated with meaningful glances at me that this stark , sombre evening was such an appropriate time . |
| 17 | If the outcome was unexpected the deciding frame was astounding . |
| 18 | Is it any wonder the Stowaway was such a huge success ? |
| 19 | Because Brutus was such an idealistic character he felt that he would have to take important steps towards saving Rome from the evil grasp of Caesar . |
| 20 | The charge was such an obvious frame-up that he had to ask himself if there had ever been any intention to try him on it . |
| 21 | ‘ If resources were available the first priority would be to appoint a full-time personnel/training officer ’ . |
| 22 | When the Frenchman , Charles Bonnet , was confronted with the argument that if preformation were true the first rabbit would have had to contain 10 10000 preformed embryos , he merely responded by saying that it was always possible , by adding zeros , to crush the imagination under the weight of numbers . |
| 23 | Since the Paris Opéra was such an exceptional institution , and its orchestra and chorus so numerous , all French writers felt obliged to treat it as a special case . |
| 24 | Erm als other problems which arose from the outline land law was in its deliberate ambiguity er in its deliberate erm tt sort of ambiguity because it left reg it left the law to be interpreted by regional areas which meant that how that erm in some places they totally misinterpreted the law but the Communist Party had to have this flexibility because China was such a vast country and you could n't just impose one policy per se across the country . |
| 25 | Since education was such a critical service it was a responsibility of government to determine its content and to ensure that it was effective . |
| 26 | ‘ Reg Butler was newer a fuckin' punter , ’ he had once said . |
| 27 | CATHERINE Was that the real reason , just a display of power ? |
| 28 | I was certainly the ideal subject for his little tricks of ringing the door bell and running away , because I dared not ignore the summons in case it might be a client , and also the consulting and operating rooms were such a long way from the front of the house . |
| 29 | If this theory were true a similar pattern might be expected in other journals . |
| 30 | Furthermore , although the domain-specific corpora were all the same length , due to variations in the type:token ratio the resultant dictionaries varied greatly in size ( from 3,960 entries to 7,748 entries ) . |