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 | The only solid bit was at the front . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The technical college was on the outskirts of town , miles away from the cinema . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The proper course was for the insurance company to apply to remove the stay in the plaintiff 's action . |
| 13 | The day we met she wore trainers , tracksuit bottoms and a striped loose top ; her shoulder-length curly hair was in a pony tail beneath a neat African-style hat . |
| 14 | The commercial settlement was with the South Western Regional Health Authority and concerned an alkali silica reaction — concrete cancer — in the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital . |
| 15 | The last possible moment for a negotiated settlement was in the third week of September . |
| 16 | German woodcarving was of a very high standard in the fourteenth to the sixteenth century , and these examples , together with those at Munich , are among the finest . |
| 17 | The next national issue to take the form of open public discontent was in the summer of 1987 when a group of about 700 Crimean Tatars staged an unprecedented demonstration in Red Square . |
| 18 | The modernist and Nietzschean devastation of the idea of historical progress was at the same time a devastation of assumptions of order , authority , stability , consonance , and repose . |
| 19 | Civil servants were keen to discern how widespread public support was for the new measures , though they were aware , as they euphemistically put it , that there would be ‘ cause for complaint ’ with the government if the bill were blocked . |
| 20 | British Aerospace was amongst the features today when it lost 12 pence to four hundred and fif , five hundred and forty one pence on rumours that the Saudis had cancelled some Tornado options . |
| 21 | One clear change was in the status of women . |
| 22 | Secondly , he must be ‘ absolutely assured that the High Command was in a position to furnish us with the necessary men and material for the continuance of the offensive , and that not by driblets , but on a large scale ’ Thirdly , the campaign should be halted the moment ‘ we ourselves were losing more heavily and becoming exhausted more rapidly than the enemy ’ . |
| 23 | French aplomb was to the fore as Auguste handed the crab to them along with the hook , raised his new Panama hat and bade them a courteous farewell . |
| 24 | Up to the early years of the twentieth century , the typical pattern of foreign investment was of the portfolio type , where private capitalists individually , or through financial organizations , would invest funds in such foreign enterprises such as railways or mines or trading companies , and simply collect the dividends as they came in . |
| 25 | The plaintiffs then argued that they were entitled to equal treatment by the law ; it was unjust that they should be compelled to use the Convention , the translation requirements of which they found insurmountably expensive , whilst the foreign defendant was under no such burden . |
| 26 | These range from determining exactly where in Europe the lord of an English medieval manor was at a certain date ( for the more senior magnates were often crusaders , pilgrims , legates and diplomatists ) to ascertaining precisely when an eighteenth-century trading agreement with a French merchant was concluded . |
| 27 | The stripping action was on a par with other smaller models . |
| 28 | British scientific research was of a high calibre . |
| 29 | The top cutting was from the Sunday Times ; underneath , she spotted items from both the Guardian and the Sun . |
| 30 | However Cavalli 's most popular work was on a libretto by Giacinto Cicognini packed with effective situations . |