Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During its course Borrow was instrumental in saving at least one man from drowning and , as a result , was mentioned in the Plymouth press . |
| 2 | The court held that there was no evidence to suggest that the decision to exclude was unreasonable on Wednesbury grounds . |
| 3 | Both relied heavily upon the goodwill of the private profession because the payment involved was minimal . |
| 4 | The technique used was lazy-bed cultivation which is a form of hand cultivation . |
| 5 | The light produced was equal to that from a medium sized candle . |
| 6 | The effect produced was unpleasant , nasty . |
| 7 | Angel One had argued in vain that the actual heroin loss involved was negligible , most of it having been moved on , and that the setting up of a new base was only a matter of time and resourcefulness . |
| 8 | Dull , physically unattractive and solidly Germanic , the new king was hardly the sovereign to arouse his subjects ' patriotic enthusiasm , and that in the opening years of his reign no invasion attempt occurred was due largely to his chief minister , the all-powerful Sir Robert Walpole . |
| 9 | Then you 'll hear from the second of officers namely the officers that went into the flat that were carrying the guns , carrying and who conducted the operation and from their evidence you 'll be able to judge whether or not the force used was reasonable and was necessary . |
| 10 | Another department studied was explicit about the residualist nature Of its services : |
| 11 | For their refreshment , to be eaten at their workplace underground , miners carried sandwiches and a metal flask of water or cold tea , and some sweet cold tea remaining was important to John . |
| 12 | It is thus not possible to tell whether the significance of the laterality effect observed was due to " same " and/or " different " trials . |
| 13 | These authors considered that the antiplatelet action observed was unrelated to effects on glycaemic control as the two effects were dissociated in time ( Poari et al , 1979 ) . |
| 14 | Greg Brittenham , from the National Institute of Fitness and Sport , coached Courier in running drills and discovered that the aerobic capacity Courier possessed was similar to marathon runners . |
| 15 | The test is clearly an objective one , in the sense that it is for the magistrates to say after the event whether or not what the defendant did was reasonable . |
| 16 | The Court of Appeal , after a full consideration of Lonrho , held that the omission of an allegation of intention to injure was fatal to the claim . |
| 17 | The reason for this is not clear but it is worth noting that McCamman et al noted that ‘ explosive diarrhoea , gas , cramps , sweating , and feeling light headed were common complaints ’ after healthy volunteers finished an elemental regimen and started to eat food . |
| 18 | Pearl also required full real-time integration ; any dependency on batch updating was unacceptable . |
| 19 | There may have been a grain of truth in this , and indeed the symptoms suffered by many people were real enough , but it was question-begging in the extreme to say that the states of mind induced were due to evil forces . |
| 20 | Every moment of pleasure missed was painful to her . |
| 21 | Certainly my mother 's successful campaign to have the nearby men 's urinal closed was vigorous and rewarding . |
| 22 | Much good that 'd do her , if what his department suspected was true . |
| 23 | The damage done was considerable . |
| 24 | He 's had a series of clashes with Sony , which his counsel says was unhappy when he wished to play down his sex symbol image , and did n't put its back behind promoting recent albums . |
| 25 | The purchase of land also presupposes that the peasantry involved were able to accumulate cash , which can have been done only by the production of surplus crops and their sale in a market . |
| 26 | Brian Leith 's job was to film the political campaign of a Sarawak conservationist , when the last thing the campaign needed was Western broadcasters hanging around . |
| 27 | Admitting that " the existing system of serf owning " had to change was so commonplace in mid-nineteenth-century Russia that its capacity to shock was minimal . |
| 28 | He referred to the six pack and my initial thought was well , what 's a six pack of Newcastle Brown Ale got ta do with Health and Safety ? |
| 29 | For the reasons given above , I am of the opinion the judge 's answer to the question posed was correct and I would dismiss this appeal . |
| 30 | Whether the girl consented was crucial to the case . |