Example sentences of "was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerald Watson 's Carnlough based Express Tico took the honours in the other penultimate heat where Miss Woolco was the unlucky victim of first bend crowding . |
| 2 | Bury 's Derek Ward was the unlucky man . |
| 3 | Her face was the candlelit colour of tallow . |
| 4 | The focus of the design was the decorative bar and its back display area , whose strong lighting made it the centrepiece of the pub . |
| 5 | ‘ Usually it was the hawking fraternity . |
| 6 | Whether you lived eight men to a room in partitioned huts or ninety men to a cold stone barn , this remoteness of the outside world was the conditioning factor of prison life . |
| 7 | There was the ubiquitous Triptych , now a four-year-old : she had won only one race in the 1986 season but had been placed in the Coronation Cup ( beaten a short head by Saint Estephe ) , the Coral-Eclipse Stakes , the King George , the Matchmaker International at York ( beaten threequarters of a length by Shardari ) and the Phoenix Champion Stakes ( third to Park Express ) . |
| 8 | Adams was the composer of the ‘ minimalist ’ score ( which means that its musical content is minimal ) , and his librettist was Alice Goodman , but its begetter was the ubiquitous director Peter Sellars , whose work is clever , gifted , silly and camp . |
| 9 | On one hand , there was the ubiquitous picture of the officer plodding the beat : a figure armed with omnipotent powers and , as such , to be deferred to or to be avoided . |
| 10 | Barley , supplemented towards the east by legumes , was the ubiquitous cereal ; with investment in crops and livestock evenly balanced on the smaller holdings , mixed farming for subsistence was probably the norm . |
| 11 | ‘ There was the ubiquitous confidentiality clause which we understand was to hide a two year rent free period . |
| 12 | The most dramatic and explosive of these changes was the devastating impact upon the social and political fabric of Europe of the First World War . |
| 13 | My primary target was the heat-pain argument , and its conclusion : that heat , like pain , ‘ can not exist but in a mind perceiving it ’ . |
| 14 | Most ominous of all was the widening gap between the economic power of each country . |
| 15 | Both the Lord Lieutenant and the Chief Secretary were politicians and had to spend a good deal of time in London attending Cabinet and Parliament ; therefore the Under-Secretary , who was a Civil Servant , was the effective head of British Administration in Ireland for most of every year . |
| 16 | Moreover the prior , who was the effective day-to-day head of the community , was still Henry , who shared Lanfranc 's doubts about the native saints . |
| 17 | Cornwallis-West became enamoured of Mrs Campbell ; this was the effective end of his marriage to Jennie , although she did not divorce him until 1913 , when she reverted to the name of Lady Randolph Churchill . |
| 18 | He who was the effective prince of Wales spoke easily of ‘ the prince ’ , and never grudged him his courtesy title . |
| 19 | A significant element of the reshuffle was the effective removal of the Yang brothers , the country 's military " strongmen " , from the power equation . |
| 20 | Indeed for a few medieval days it was the effective capital of England . |
| 21 | But as usual all I saw was the hairy form bounding away out of sight round the corner of the house . |
| 22 | He was the Roving Correspondent ( politics ) of the True Brit , an appointment that carried a salary of £75,000 a year , plus expenses . |
| 23 | This was the ultimate culmination of all the measures since the 1927 Cinematograph Film Act that had been designed to involve American finance in British films . |
| 24 | For those who claimed to have had this experience , the exemplary manner in which they met their death was the ultimate proof they were indeed saved . |
| 25 | There was the ultimate , definitive statement of the conspiracy theory of human affairs . |
| 26 | It was the ultimate biker-drug-sex film , which also owed a lot to Kerouac 's On The Road . |
| 27 | Steven Patrick Morrissey was the ultimate embodiment of those left behind . |
| 28 | Both were great stylists and for them history was the ultimate tribunal before which the actions of rulers and others can be judged , ‘ but where Thucydides was a magistrate , Tacitus was an advocate — the most brilliant , perhaps , who ever sought to determine the judgement of Time , but an advocate all the same ’ . |
| 29 | It was the forerunner of every luxurious railway carriage , of which the private American railroad car , popular with tycoons between 1890 and the Second World War , was the ultimate status symbol of the traveller . |
| 30 | It was the ultimate submission to the impersonal forces of fate . |