Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [be] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the thing was so valuable , then the secrecy and the size of the fee were understandable And if how the Emissary lived was any indication of life at the top on Fraxilly , presumably the God-King did like to own things worth a planet 's ransom . |
| 32 | In 1910 Taylor 's fellow missionary , Alice Burt , published her Swahili Grammar amd Vocabulary ; the standard of Swahili adopted was that set by Taylor . |
| 33 | The last thing Chrissie heard was that name again , spoken like an expletive . |
| 34 | His evasion of her sensible scheme for his comfort had been another repulse . |
| 35 | Labour 's traditional view had been that interest rates should be kept down and investment restricted to feasible levels , not by monetary policy , but by quantitative credit controls and physical materials controls . |