Example sentences of "was a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a ripe collection of April Fool items flying around the industry this year , with BICC Plc 's BICC Information Systems & Services promoting its underware , the first two items being BISS-SLIP for Synchronised Linked Internet Protocol and BISS-NICS Network Integrity Circuit Service , and Chase Research Inc of Nashville , Tennessee threatening to knock MS-DOS , Unix and NT off their perches with a resurrected CPM/93 version of the late lamented CP/M operating system — and comes on 300 8″ floppies , bundled with an 8″ floppy drive for $100 ; but the prize has to go for Hewlett-Packard Ltd , which yesterday announced new security features for its Vectra personal computers — User Fingerprint Recognition on all models , and both Photographic Recognition — a tiny camera in the middle of the screen that recognises you even when you come back with a tan , and Odour Recognition — designated users must not change their perfume or after shave — on 80486 models ; not recognised ? |
| 2 | Outgoing Mr Alia , 67 , was a right-hand man of the late dictator Enver Hoxha . |
| 3 | Until this point , the issue system was a modified Browne charging " system based on a weekly rather than a daily record . |
| 4 | This was a modified account of chapter III of The Green Book which argues that justice demands women should be free to fulfil their nature . |
| 5 | Neither of these was adopted — the executed bridge was a conventional masonry structure of three arches — but in his design for the Coalbrookdale bridge , made in 1775 , he adapted some of the principles of the timber proposal to a structure wholly of cast iron ; and it was a modified version of this design which was executed by the Coalbrookdale Ironworks in 1777–9 — the first iron bridge in the world . |
| 6 | Elisha was a gentler person than his master and proved to be a wise adviser to the kings of Israel , with the result that the danger from the Syrians was outwitted and avoided . |
| 7 | She was Van 's piano teacher right up to the Moscow prize , and will tell at the drop of a hat the story of his childhood promise , which first manifested itself when Van was a tender lad of three . |
| 8 | On examination there was a tender spot on the left costal margin in the mid-clavicular line and pressure there reproduced her pain exactly . |
| 9 | Last night , perhaps , the bombs that fell from Rob 's plane had killed women and children and old , helpless men , but for all that he was a tender lover . |
| 10 | ( This is because 1988 was a transitional year from GCE and CSE to GCSE . |
| 11 | Clearly it was a transitional object , purpose-built to drag me back into the world of men and affairs . |
| 12 | It is probable that this was a transitional period , in which cavalry techniques and the use of stirrups were being developed , while the earlier form of the armed group and shield wall was still extensively used . |
| 13 | ‘ There was a transitional moment of delicious uneasiness and then — instantaneously — the long inhibition was over , the dry desert lay behind , I was off once more into the land of longing , my heart at once broken and exalted as it had never been since the old days at Bookham . ’ |
| 14 | Under the large west window was a raised platform reached by two steps at each side of the pulpit-desk which was placed in the centre . |
| 15 | On its return journey at 5.30 pm it ran back on the slow up line and into Loughton siding where there was a raised platform some 60ft long at coach footboard height , for milk churns to be loaded on the daily milk train . |
| 16 | In the centre of the room there was a raised dais , roofed with gold . |
| 17 | In the centre of the room there was a raised dais , and it was also roofed with gold . |
| 18 | There was a raised dais on one side of the square on which the Sheikh Osman sat cross-legged . |
| 19 | There was a raised dais at one end underneath a skylight , with a sort of bed on it . |
| 20 | The orchestra was restricted to a semicircle in view of the needs of Roman drama and , in front of this was a raised stage . |
| 21 | Just below his left shoulder was a raised welt , about four inches long . |
| 22 | One was a young detective-constable , seconded from the Bromley district , who noticed Nona . |
| 23 | His replacement was recruited from a major national hotel group and was a young hotel and catering graduate with five year 's post-qualification experience . |
| 24 | The shocking discovery prompted a massive police operation clearly remembered by a retired policeman who was a young constable on duty in Spennymoor on the night of the slaying . |
| 25 | I have got erm a crazy mixed up erm if you like , combination ; erm one who has a precarious reputation for doing some strange things on the track , Andrea , and it 's ironical really because erm when at the end of erm my racing days , which seventy eight , seventy nine with the erm Malborough team , erm Andrea was a young kid coming through . |
| 26 | Now she was a young widow , dignified but vulnerable , busy but not tastelessly careerist ; she believed that she always put her family first . |
| 27 | An old bugger I was , well I was a young bugger actually then , yeah , yeah . |
| 28 | The maid was a young country girl , more acceptable as a model , and Modi painted her as ‘ The Girl With Red Hands ’ . |
| 29 | When he was a young fighter , a doctor had to chase him around a desk to give him a shot , and chaotic mobility to him is at least as important as breathing . |
| 30 | I joined some time in the late thirties when I was a young member of the Foreign Office . ’ |