Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ THERE ‘ e goes again ! ’ muttered the Old Stager , as the Computer Programmer was caught in the slips for 32 in our last match of the season . |
| 2 | The Snogogram building was n't really a building , it was a converted railway arch . |
| 3 | The defence story was emphasised that she |
| 4 | Monday brought another very sparse attendance , though the noise level was punishing , thanks to the non-stop chanting of the Pakistan supporters by the scoreboard . |
| 5 | Noise level was about average for an electric machine , certainly quieter than petrol-driven models . |
| 6 | One of the key obstacles to achieving a significant deficit reduction was the President 's 1988 pledge not to raise taxes , one of the few firm commitments made by Bush during his entire presidential election campaign . |
| 7 | There was an apparent consensus , however , that budget deficit reduction was a central plank of the necessary stable policy framework , and that governments lacked scope for undertaking more expansive public expenditure or consumer credit policies to stimulate economic growth at a rate faster than the predicted very gradual recovery to end-1993 . |
| 8 | That so much of the Rio Maas was opened out by sandschooner instead of by plane and caterpillar truck was probably exactly for that reason : because it was a distinctly more perilous way of going about it . |
| 9 | This chapter briefly discusses the characteristics of the research students returning questionnaires to IMS as part of the assessment of the initial employment destinations of information engineering research students whose SERC grant support was due to end in 1984 . |
| 10 | There were not many people about and the cinema park was lined with a meagre row or two of takers . |
| 11 | Where in the detective short story ingenuity was , in principle , the only quality called for , in the crime short story ingenuity has to be at the service of imagination . |
| 12 | Since a right visual field advantage was still found when the word in the right field was exposed 20 msecs. later than the word in the left field it was subsequently concluded that temporal factors were not importantly involved ( McKeever and Huling , 1971 b ) . |
| 13 | With accuracy of recognition as the dependent variable a left field advantage was found by Hilliard ( 1973 ) , Ellis and Shepherd ( 1975 ) , Jones ( 1979 ) and Leehey and Cahn ( 1979 ) . |
| 14 | In the second case , however , a significant right field advantage was found for males over females in verbal ability , but no significant difference was found between males and females in advantage between visual fields . |
| 15 | IBM also said unit sales of personal computers were up 40% on a year-to-year basis and the IBM Personal Computer Co was profitable in the first quarter — but does that mean simply that as a quasi-autonomous company , a load of corporate overhead has been lifted from it and dumped elsewhere ? |
| 16 | IBM also said unit sales of personal computers were up 40% on a year-to-year basis and the IBM Personal Computer Co was profitable in the first quarter — but does that mean simply that as a quasi-autonomous company , a load of corporate overhead has been lifted from it and dumped elsewhere ? |
| 17 | Held , granting the applications and remitting the case to the magistrates , the essence of the defence case was an allegation that the prosecutor had dishonestly contrived to manipulate the prosecution process so as to avoid the consequences of the legislation which brought the applicants within the custody time limit regulations . |
| 18 | The defence case was primarily that the shooting had been accidental . |
| 19 | There was an hors-d'oeuvre of eggs and anchovies , there were hot grilled fresh sardines to follow , the vegetable course was côtes de blettes , the rib parts of those enormous leaves of the spinach family which we know as chard and which are much cultivated in the Rhône valley ; the leaves themselves are cooked in the same way as spinach , the fleshy stalks and ribs were , on this occasion , sautéd in olive oil and flavoured with garlic and were delicious . |
| 20 | Concentrating all the beef subsidy on the suckler cow was impossible too . |
| 21 | Lifting one Pelton ‘ can ’ off my ears the ambient cabin noise was well below even some modern designs . |
| 22 | In reality the government 's budget deficit was probably equal to just under a quarter of GDP in 1992 and the budget passed in March could push it up further . |
| 23 | The French budget deficit was heading towards 6% of GDP this year before the latest austerity measures , not 3% as formerly thought . |
| 24 | The budget deficit was forecast at Sh93,656 million , to be financed largely by external borrowing . |
| 25 | The budget deficit was to be cut to 60,000 million roubles by reducing central state expenditure on investment ( notably in heavy industry ) , the military and administration . |
| 26 | The budget deficit was K514,000,000 before taking into account grants and loans , which were expected to leave an overall deficit of K102,000,000 [ see p. 36993 for previous year 's budget figures ] . |
| 27 | The budget deficit was to be restricted to 1.6 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) , compared with 3 per cent in 1989 . |
| 28 | The budget deficit was expected to grow from Esc439,000 million in 1989 to Esc601,000 million in 1990 , or around 7.5 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) ( the 1989 figure of 4.3 per cent of GDP being unusually low , partly because of accelerated revenue collection as a result of tax reforms ) . |
| 29 | The overall budget deficit was revised to DM66,800 million . |
| 30 | The Curaçao island government 's budget deficit was estimated at NAFl96.8 million for 1990 . |