Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE station 's prime economic function was as a reception and distribution point for goods of all kinds . |
| 2 | Because from each pole there hung a robe , and each robe was of a different hue , and every robe was of a different consistency . |
| 3 | OF ALL cell ingredients , one might guess that calcium was among the least important . |
| 4 | The only solid bit was at the front . |
| 5 | The triumphant jockey , whose only previous win at Classic level was in the Italian St Leger , gave a victory salute with his whip when passing the post . |
| 6 | But that difficulty was in the end surmounted and , on the whole , the writing was easy and pleasurable . |
| 7 | I had a relatively easy morning , joining James and Cathy Lane once the 409 litres ( 90gal ) of Friesian milk was in the vat in the dairy at 7.30am ( they had risen at 5.30 to do the milking ) . |
| 8 | The agreement in that case was between the owner of a piano ( a dealer ) and his customer . |
| 9 | ( c ) I do not think the Engdiv case , 1990 S.L.T. 617 assists Mr. Beazley , since both the pursuers seeking contribution and the defenders resisting it were parties to the building contract at issue in the case , so that it was difficult to resist the submission that the claim for contribution in that case was in a matter relating to a contract . |
| 10 | The dead were named last night as Mr Paul Gordon Butt , 29 , a securities dealer , Mr Thomas Casey , 49 , a door keeper , and Danielle Carter , 15 , whose eight-year-old sister was among the injured . |
| 11 | However , he submitted that even if the trial judge had misdirected the jury when he told them that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what it was proved that he himself had done , that misdirection was to the advantage of the first appellant . |
| 12 | The largest reduction was in the number of elderly casualties . |
| 13 | The literary truth is that Modernism was in the end a starved and blighted world , joylessly based on a denial that language can depict the real . |
| 14 | Look twat … first off that mail was for a PRIVATE LEEDS MAIL LIST |
| 15 | In later years the dry dock was under the control of Marr & Co. but following the building of the new bridge at Bernard Street , only small vessels and yachts could pass under the bridge and reach the dock . |
| 16 | Each interview was with a single-sex group of girls or boys , and I began by asking them to choose their favourite character or person on TV and tell me a bit about them . |
| 17 | The technical college was on the outskirts of town , miles away from the cinema . |
| 18 | It was from this ‘ Mecca for cricket lovers ’ that the first Wisden cricketing almanack was published in 1864 , although that introductory offering was of a very general nature . |
| 19 | It seemed ( see , for instance , our Interim Report , 1988 ) that , right up to the moment when the repatriation of the Cossacks began , there remained a complete and unresolved contradiction between this insistence by 5 Corps and the reiterated insistence by AFHQ that force was in no circumstances to be used . |
| 20 | Although arrangements differed in detail from one place to another the usual practice was for the management to allow a preliminary meeting in works time at which the aims of the WEA could be explained and for those apprentices interested to stay behind to plan a course . |
| 21 | It was conceded by the court that this finding was on a strict view irrelevant , since there was a break between the clearing of the premises and the assault with which the appellant had been charged , which was a separate incident . |
| 22 | Some of this support was on a substantial scale : a large cheque given to enable the parents to ‘ buy things for the baby ’ ; a capital sum to enable a young architect to buy into a new firm ; paying the wages of a home help to assist a family with several young children ( pp. 92–4 ) . |
| 23 | At first this support was for a cautious continuation of the patching of the existing system . |
| 24 | A further freedom was from the thrall of death — whose sting is fear , through Christ we see that death is not final . |
| 25 | This payment was towards a purchase price of $800,000 or $850,000 , ( the entries in the bank and gallery records are contradictory ) . |
| 26 | And yet this field was like every other since the archers had become the terrible force they were ; their part was done first , but nonetheless at the end it was seen to be the determining part . |
| 27 | High tide was about a quarter-past eleven at night , a moderate tide ; there would have bean between four and four-and-a-half feet in the basin at the top of the flood . ’ |
| 28 | It was as though an extraordinary story — a great mythology , with half-forgotten legends , languages and lore — had been unfolding in his head from the time he began to think ; and his appreciation of the Old Literature was at the deepest level imaginative and creative . |
| 29 | He accepted however that once this case was over the real hunt for more suitable accommodation would begin and by that time , at least , there could be the introduction of such a carer . |
| 30 | ‘ A pre-trial inquiry , such as the appellant contends the judge in this case was under a duty to embark upon , would itself be open to abuse by unscrupulous and dishonest accused persons . |