Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that was the reason why , and in fact the total shortfall , the total unmanning was something like a hundred and thirty-five hundred and forty , which is why the police authority has a bid in at this moment for a , a further sixty-eight policemen , which has in fact been backed by the county council , who are prepared to pay for it . |
| 2 | The hooded serpent was their totem . |
| 3 | Frigidity becomes the spectre hovering over this transition , should it not be properly accomplished , and the frigid woman was one who had failed to make this transference . |
| 4 | That the advertisement had been in a church magazine was , for my grandfather , sufficient guarantee of respectability , but when the boys arrived in the great city even their inexperience could not hide from them the fact that the respectable lodging was nothing more nor less than a brothel . |
| 5 | For seconds he lay stunned , conscious only of distant sounds , like the booming of heavy surf , and the cries and screams of laughter of the people on the beach ; except the cries and screaming became one , the voice of Lawton and the booming surf was it . |
| 6 | The striking point was his accuracy in navigation , for after days of dead reckoning , his latitude and longitude were in error by no more than five miles , despite difficulties of navigation in those waters . |
| 7 | Not only did the existence of a divided society help fuel party tensions under William and Anne , but taking the longer perspective covered by this book as a whole , it might even be fair to suggest that the emergence of the party divide amongst the political elite was itself a symptom of the bitter divisions that already existed in this society , divisions which we have traced back to the Restoration in 1660 . |
| 8 | The sole exception was Mother-she liked riding in a boat and went out with her close friend Mrs Fawcett , who took her boys along , too . |
| 9 | The odd thing was his first thought was her husband , Ed , must be told — Ed whom she was on the verge of divorcing . |
| 10 | Recent research strongly suggests that an important factor in the inhibition of the western democracies towards the Spanish conflict was their concern not to provoke Hitler or Mussolini . |
| 11 | No , even stranger than that , they thought the hapless Mary was none other than KURT COBAIN ! |
| 12 | They were usually minor KGB agents , and the two-thousand-dollar charge was nothing more than a way of increasing the Soviet Union 's foreign exchange . |
| 13 | Hence the undeniable defect of the lower clergy was its low intellectual standards , especially when , perhaps as a result of liberal meanness in the settlements of the nineteenth century , the seminaries stagnated . |
| 14 | The 52nd-minute header was his first Premier League goal and the blue hordes massed in the new Bridgford End stand , that looks from the outside like a poor man 's Pompidou Centre , went wild . |
| 15 | The strange thing was they did n't seem to mind that he was on the same terms with judges , cops and lawyers . |
| 16 | There is nothing to suggest that the rural economy was anything but generalised , with evidence for specialisation appearing late in the period . |
| 17 | But seldom , until the last decades of the nineteenth century was he regarded as a likely subject for trade unionism . |
| 18 | Maybe The Complete History was what that publisher said it was — a boring load of old rubbish . |
| 19 | At no time in the intervening period was there any possibility of the Labour Party replacing the National , predominantly Conservative , government . |
| 20 | The Minoan religion was itself in transition , and we can see the humanoid deities as more evolved than the daemons , who were older nature-spirits . |
| 21 | In other words , Laura 's idea of the working woman was one who worked at home , and her needs should be catered for so that she could look attractive in the environment in which she naturally flourished . |
| 22 | During the 1920s and early 1930s , the Labour Party was its serious challenger , to the extent that the Conservative Party was forced to offer social reform in order to meet that challenge . |
| 23 | The Socialist League still took the view that only through work in the Labour Party was there any possibility of building a united labour movement . |
| 24 | ‘ The Labour Party was his life , ’ said the local agent . |
| 25 | I told him it was entirely a matter for him to decide : that the Labour Party was my client and I would proceed on its instructions . |
| 26 | The only significant shortcoming in the Dearing report was its failure to assess the true cost of operating the system it proposed . |
| 27 | One was milking , and Peggy and I used very often be fetching the wood , we got tractor and trailer into the woods , and the old woodmen used to tell us where the dry wood was we could collect , take it down to the farm , circular saw in the shed , switch the electricity to go on . |
| 28 | Benjamin , however , smiled coolly at the Earl as if the Scottish bastard was his long-lost brother . |
| 29 | The cruder stuff was his idea . |
| 30 | It devoured demised or murdered human bodies , of which the sadistic dentist was one . |