Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE station 's prime economic function was as a reception and distribution point for goods of all kinds . |
| 2 | The only solid bit was at the front . |
| 3 | But that difficulty was in the end surmounted and , on the whole , the writing was easy and pleasurable . |
| 4 | I had a relatively easy morning , joining James and Cathy Lane once the 409 litres ( 90gal ) of Friesian milk was in the vat in the dairy at 7.30am ( they had risen at 5.30 to do the milking ) . |
| 5 | The agreement in that case was between the owner of a piano ( a dealer ) and his customer . |
| 6 | ( c ) I do not think the Engdiv case , 1990 S.L.T. 617 assists Mr. Beazley , since both the pursuers seeking contribution and the defenders resisting it were parties to the building contract at issue in the case , so that it was difficult to resist the submission that the claim for contribution in that case was in a matter relating to a contract . |
| 7 | However , he submitted that even if the trial judge had misdirected the jury when he told them that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what it was proved that he himself had done , that misdirection was to the advantage of the first appellant . |
| 8 | The largest reduction was in the number of elderly casualties . |
| 9 | The literary truth is that Modernism was in the end a starved and blighted world , joylessly based on a denial that language can depict the real . |
| 10 | In later years the dry dock was under the control of Marr & Co. but following the building of the new bridge at Bernard Street , only small vessels and yachts could pass under the bridge and reach the dock . |
| 11 | Although arrangements differed in detail from one place to another the usual practice was for the management to allow a preliminary meeting in works time at which the aims of the WEA could be explained and for those apprentices interested to stay behind to plan a course . |
| 12 | A further freedom was from the thrall of death — whose sting is fear , through Christ we see that death is not final . |
| 13 | This payment was towards a purchase price of $800,000 or $850,000 , ( the entries in the bank and gallery records are contradictory ) . |
| 14 | Eliot and Sgt. Bamberger of 261 Squadron were on a night readiness and were both ordered off . |
| 15 | And yet this field was like every other since the archers had become the terrible force they were ; their part was done first , but nonetheless at the end it was seen to be the determining part . |
| 16 | High tide was about a quarter-past eleven at night , a moderate tide ; there would have bean between four and four-and-a-half feet in the basin at the top of the flood . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ A pre-trial inquiry , such as the appellant contends the judge in this case was under a duty to embark upon , would itself be open to abuse by unscrupulous and dishonest accused persons . |
| 18 | Excitation in this case was with a laser line in the ultraviolet , well within the absorption band responsible for the yellow color . |
| 19 | Poor old British Rail were between the devil and the deep blue sea . |
| 20 | The proper course was for the insurance company to apply to remove the stay in the plaintiff 's action . |
| 21 | The day we met she wore trainers , tracksuit bottoms and a striped loose top ; her shoulder-length curly hair was in a pony tail beneath a neat African-style hat . |
| 22 | The commercial settlement was with the South Western Regional Health Authority and concerned an alkali silica reaction — concrete cancer — in the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital . |
| 23 | This expertise was behind the opening of the North Terminal at Gatwick , the new Terminal 4 at Heathrow and the rebuilding of Terminal 3 to give far greater comfort than before . |
| 24 | The next national issue to take the form of open public discontent was in the summer of 1987 when a group of about 700 Crimean Tatars staged an unprecedented demonstration in Red Square . |
| 25 | Although this text was in no way officially commissioned , it was to be the fount of the canon law . |
| 26 | One clear change was in the status of women . |
| 27 | Most of this industry was on the coalfield at Coatbridge and in the Clyde valley from Motherwell to Glasgow . |
| 28 | On his brief visit to Cambodia he met Dith Pran for the first time , but his longest stretch was from the beginning of January 1975 until the fall of Phnom Penh in April of that year . |
| 29 | Secondly , he must be ‘ absolutely assured that the High Command was in a position to furnish us with the necessary men and material for the continuance of the offensive , and that not by driblets , but on a large scale ’ Thirdly , the campaign should be halted the moment ‘ we ourselves were losing more heavily and becoming exhausted more rapidly than the enemy ’ . |
| 30 | The Inland Revenue were of the view " that if income had been paid away it could not be " relevant income " " because it would not be available for providing a benefit " . |