Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , he was recruited to the discipline by what some insisted was the arsy-versy way . |
| 2 | Such a theme was , and still is , at the centre of debate throughout all Western societies , but what was really surprising for the Japanese to read was the clear attribution , from a Westerner , that a limited state role was one of the most important reasons why Japanese was destined to be the ‘ Number One ’ . |
| 3 | Here for all to see was the great lesson of World War I : the machine-gun made direct attack too costly even to contemplate . |
| 4 | Among those killed was the prominent politician Sylvio Claude , leader of the Christian Democratic Party ( PDCH ) and consistent critic of Aristide , who was murdered in an apparent backlash by government supporters in the coastal town of Les Cayes , 160 km south-west of Port-au-Prince . |
| 5 | In chronological order , the first to appear was the fenced fin , on which horizontal fences around the foil aimed to prevent the offending air bubbles from working down the fin . |
| 6 | One feature of life in the 1980s that the crisis did little to alter was the precarious existence of members of the upper reaches of the Iraqi system . |
| 7 | More difficult to swallow was the murky medievalism pervading Milan 's Prada , celebrated originator of the fashion cognoscenti 's favourite nylon handbag . |
| 8 | A 44th minute goalmouth melee in which Colin Allister and Norman McGladdery were both denied was the nearest Bann came to giving themselves a glimmer of hope . |