Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] was a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean that kitchen was a major job |
| 2 | Despite being the aim of many state pension schemes , the breaking of the link between old age and low income was a real possibility with SERPS . |
| 3 | To ensure that this progressive building was a success , it was essential –hat a supply of completely manufactured parts was on the ground at the point of erection , before the building of a vehicle was commenced . |
| 4 | The fusion of the Asian and European conflicts was a gamble which could only come off if a successful blitzkrieg were to lead to negotiation . |
| 5 | As we have seen , he had declined commissions to write further historical or religious dramas on the lines of Murder in the Cathedral : as far as he was concerned , that play was a " dead end " . " |
| 6 | Mixed-ability teaching was a principle fairly widely accepted , at least for children in their first year at secondary school , but in some schools for far longer . |
| 7 | That lane was a delight . |
| 8 | Now furthermore , if we look at what was happening to the population itself , remember that under the economic basis of looking at determinants of demand , we saw that income was a crucial factor . |
| 9 | In neither case was a child resistant lid contraindicated . |
| 10 | It must have seemed clear to him at once that Tolkien was a man of literary genius , and this fact only brought home to him his own sense of failure as a writer . |
| 11 | That Turnour was a hard , tough , trained fighter . |
| 12 | The garden 's sole glory was a laburnum , which blossomed wonderfully each year : but even that she associated more with its dry black fatal pods than with its flowers , so often and so rigorously had she been warned of its poison . |
| 13 | The court held that necessity was a defence to the claim in trespass and nuisance . |
| 14 | The court held that necessity was a defence to trespass provided there was no negligence on the part of the defendant . |
| 15 | The belief , sincerely held by many of my working class contemporaries , that teaching was a much better job than many of the others which were open to them , no longer applies . |
| 16 | ‘ The Department of Health report also showed that milk was a major contributor of calcium , thiamin , riboflavin and vitamins , and that differences in milk consumption were reflected in the falling intakes of these nutrients in lower income families . |
| 17 | In both the following examples relating to money transactions , the display also had to be interpreted because the result of the multiplication in each case was a complete tenth of a pound . |
| 18 | The visit that afternoon was a vague affair . |
| 19 | The House considered the decision in McGhee and stated that the judgment of Lord Wilberforce in that case was a minority one and did not represent the law . |
| 20 | Jack was never flurried , his cool , unruffled play was a hallmark of his game , along with some immensely powerful clearances . |
| 21 | With ample historical evidence on their side , the expansionists replied that visibility was a tested means of swelling research budgets . |
| 22 | ‘ My elder sister was a pig to me . |
| 23 | Despite students ' insistence , as we saw earlier , that physics was a subject concerned with ‘ understanding ’ , note-taking in lectures was necessary for learning and examination revision . |
| 24 | On this view the non-specialist sole practitioner was a species of legal animal which market forces were in the process of rendering extinct . |
| 25 | The pieces we loaned made up the ‘ influence of ’ section , with each piece was a particularly rare and important example of Japonisme as applied to domestic silver , and we shall have some of those pieces displayed for sale at this year 's fair . |
| 26 | Under each seat was a packet . |
| 27 | Lucy 's pregnant weight was a daunting burden to assist across the drive to the Volvo . |
| 28 | It was just such a pattern of alternating brightness and darkness in a two-slit experiment with light that convinced Thomas Young in 1803 that light was a wave-like disturbance . |
| 29 | Interlock with the requirements of the professional association was a crucial theme , and the Library Association expressed its willingness to accept CNAA degrees for postgraduate entry . |
| 30 | There is in fact a fine line in Hunt 's book in which he describes his reaction , on getting to Austria — Niki 's home circuit — and learning that Niki was a very sick man indeed . |