Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During our Pre-Campaign Wave in March defence was the main issue on television , the main issue stressed by the Conservative Party , and second only to unemployment as Labour 's main issue . |
| 2 | Detective Sergeant Lucy Lane was an established member of the Serious Crimes Squad and she more than earned her keep . |
| 3 | Another important Culham experiment was the 8-metre theta pinch Ion which New Scientist 's present editor worked ) . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that the Harter Act was a prime source of the Hague Rules , the United States Senate did not enact an implementing statute , the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act ( ’ COGSA ’ ) , until April 16 , 1936 . |
| 5 | Yet , despite Maine 's hostility both to utilitarianism and legal positivism , J. S. Mill was an early admirer of Maine 's work . |
| 6 | Its opening during the Falklands War was an extraordinary coincidence . |
| 7 | Mark Waugh , Shane Warne and David Boon were the other Australian cricketers watching football . |
| 8 | Cambridge 's inability to shake off Oxford , who poignantly named their boat the John Hebbes after one of their oarsmen who died recently , by the end of the Surrey bend was the crucial factor . |
| 9 | ‘ The city of Shenzen close to Daya Bay was a tiny fishing village 10 years ago . |
| 10 | The Haleiwa Theatre was a pink , art deco pleasure dome built by the sugar barons which by the sixties had become the hub of social activity , screening nightly surf movies . |
| 11 | Toning exactly with the colour of her crêpe de Chine dress was a long , pliqué-à-jour necklace of geometric metal links filled with various shades of pink enamel , interspersed with cornelians . |
| 12 | As far as he could see back up the Basra road were the headless date palms , lopped by the shrapnel . |
| 13 | Saturday lunchtime was the only time Selwyn visited the pub , owing to the fact that he kept a fifteen gallon cask of cider in his garden shed . |
| 14 | Political leaders said the latest killings in Natal province were a deliberate attempt to scuttle the country 's fragile democracy talks . |
| 15 | C. R. Dodwell proposed that the Alexis Master was a secular artist hired by Geoffrey of Gorham [ q.v. ] , abbot of St Albans ( 1119–46 ) . |
| 16 | The dashing 35-year-old Northamptonshire batsman was the personal choice of Graham Gooch for this winter 's battles in India and the West Indies . |
| 17 | If Jim Baxter — the pit-boy turned pop star — was one of Scotland 's most glamorous working-class heroes in the '60s , then Denis Law was a worthy rival . |
| 18 | Kim Tu-bong was a distinguished scholar , who had lived mainly in China ; between 1942 and 1945 he worked in Yenan . |
| 19 | Cornelius Vermuyden was the Dutch expert employed by the earl and his ‘ co-adventurers ’ , as the promoters of the scheme called themselves . |
| 20 | ‘ The Bourne shell was a good start , but Berkeley added the C shell and Berkeley extensions , such as vi , refining the ideas coming out of Bell Labs . |
| 21 | I like some of the heavier stuff from America : I heard a couple of things by Superchunk that I really liked , and obviously the Nirvana album was a ground-breaking record . |
| 22 | Green Party candidate Sarah Banks said the Trident programme was a ludicrous , unilateral UK nuclear escalation which contravened the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . |
| 23 | Getting back home to Armscott Manor was a mechanical necessity , but she hardly registered the journey . |
| 24 | Cornelius Hackl was the naive young chief clerk of the musical 's hay and feed store . |
| 25 | On the second day of the Jockey Club 's OJOCs system , the Malton handler 's Swynford Flyer was the only horse to have been declared without a rider at any of today 's three meetings . |
| 26 | The Saint Dyé entrance was the proposed location for the second scheme , which was to consist of a Tower of Babel-like structure culminating in a glass-sided cafeteria topped by a Leonardo da Vinci-style sculpture of a man with outstretched arms . |
| 27 | Maud Heath was a pedlar woman who lived on Wick Hill and walked four and a half miles , past Kellaways , to Chippenham each morning . |
| 28 | Kempe was responsible for many telegraph and telephone services used by the Post Office ( including sending keys , postal pneumatic extensions ) and his design of the Dover–Calais cable for the London–Paris telephone was an acknowledged success . |
| 29 | It would be a very sensible thing to do and Jane Postlethwaite was a sensible girl . |
| 30 | Beefy 's presence in the England team was a huge bonus for Gooch . |