Example sentences of "the [adj] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm expecting him to chip-up and two-putt for a five ( the 17th was a par-5 ) , so I 'm thinking we have to do the same in reverse . |
| 2 | The 15th was an obvious birdie hole but Wadkins thinned his drive and , after much deliberation , decided to lay up rather than go for the carry . |
| 3 | The 15th was the longest hole at 580 yards , although not so formidable as the 8th where ‘ fences are utilised as hazards , and there are several trees stumps ’ . |
| 4 | The Archbishop held other considerable estates in the county , of which the largest was the Manor of South Malling , a solid block of land stretching from the Ouse outside Lewes to the Kent border . |
| 5 | They 're doing another one now the that was a prototype . |
| 6 | Well that was the that was the er base headquarters of the international brigade , Albusate And then from there , w you were farmed out to the village , which was er er sort of the base , who are responsible for your er particular national battalion , you see er , the the the French people , they they er w they would be in one village , the English and the Canadians er er Americans would be er in this place that we were at , called Tarrazona Er and the Germans w , the German anti-fascists would be er in another . |
| 7 | Er anyway the that was the cook 's job and that was my job , I used to sort of go across and fetch this tea and have it ready by the time the men gave up work at nine o'clock . |
| 8 | That 's the that was the state of affairs |
| 9 | No that was the that was the furniture repository . |
| 10 | If Holland , Holland had to lose , that was the that was the deciding factor |
| 11 | The MMI was the first US index option to be traded outside the US , and is specifically designed to enable European investors to deal in US stocks before Wall Street opens . |
| 12 | There are examples of large castles at Niedzica , Czersk and Mir ( now in the U.S.S.R. ) , but one of the greatest was the vast complex built as the headquarters for the Teutonic Knights , on the river Norgat , an arm of the Vistula , 35 miles south of Gdansk . |
| 13 | His friend Lauder once attended such a service and was moved to comment that this assembling of the deaf was an affecting spectacle : |
| 14 | The nineteenth was the greatest century since the first for the spread of Christianity . |
| 15 | Dovercourt in the thirties was an Essex coastal village favoured as a retirement home for those who enjoyed stiff breezes and bracing walks . |
| 16 | The thirties was the decade when smart hostesses took to serving a great many dishes iced or frozen simply for the originality of the idea . |
| 17 | Another aspect of the disregard for the feelings of the unemployed was the reduction in the number of mainstream staff in DSS offices at a time when the number of claimants was rising . |
| 18 | The youngest was a Spanish cabinboy who had run away a few years before from his vicious captain , the oldest a maroon from Benin who had fled a plantation on an island to the north : he had stowed away in a pirate ship that had stopped to draw water on Oualie . |
| 19 | The youngest was a boy of eigh eight the of twenty two . |
| 20 | A physics of the infinite was the correlate of a theology of the infinite , however heterodox that theology was perceived to be . |
| 21 | But anyway whether that 's true or not the this was a s s seems to be as a result of |
| 22 | Th th the point that erm we were then discussing was that in practice of course males may , m ma may contribute a lot more an and , and the question was is this er something to do with the adaptions of our species or is it just the this was the question you , you asked me was n't it ? |
| 23 | Among the vanquished was the master chimney-sweeper , whilom incredulous at Stagg 's Gardens , who now lived in a stuccoed house three storeys high , and gave himself out , with golden flourishes upon a varnished board , as contractor for the cleansing of railway chimneys by machinery . |
| 24 | Kathleen Woodward 's mother of the 1890s was the one I knew : mothers were people who told you how long they were in labour with you , how much you hurt , how hard it was to have you ( " twenty hours with you , " my mother frequently reminded me ) and who told you to accept the impossible contradiction of being both desired and being a burden , and not to complain . |
| 25 | The prettiest was the one in the pale pink jacket , who never looked around her as she worked . |
| 26 | This is emphasised by the fact that the Doric was the favourite order of the Greeks and was used above all others for important buildings ; to the Romans the Corinthian had a greater appeal . |
| 27 | The 1st was the coldest night of the month in some places , vying with the last two nights of February , with very few really frosty nights in between . |
| 28 | Blanked out from the copy of the score shown in illus.4 presumably in the 1790s was a fleur-de-lys held by the cupid . |
| 29 | The defeat of British Jacobinism at the end of the 1790s was the starting point of an effervescence of fringe religious movements . |
| 30 | In 1970 , 16 per cent of the 911 was the light metallic element . |