Example sentences of "was a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a ripe collection of April Fool items flying around the industry this year , with BICC Plc 's BICC Information Systems & Services promoting its underware , the first two items being BISS-SLIP for Synchronised Linked Internet Protocol and BISS-NICS Network Integrity Circuit Service , and Chase Research Inc of Nashville , Tennessee threatening to knock MS-DOS , Unix and NT off their perches with a resurrected CPM/93 version of the late lamented CP/M operating system — and comes on 300 8″ floppies , bundled with an 8″ floppy drive for $100 ; but the prize has to go for Hewlett-Packard Ltd , which yesterday announced new security features for its Vectra personal computers — User Fingerprint Recognition on all models , and both Photographic Recognition — a tiny camera in the middle of the screen that recognises you even when you come back with a tan , and Odour Recognition — designated users must not change their perfume or after shave — on 80486 models ; not recognised ? |
| 2 | Outgoing Mr Alia , 67 , was a right-hand man of the late dictator Enver Hoxha . |
| 3 | This was a modified account of chapter III of The Green Book which argues that justice demands women should be free to fulfil their nature . |
| 4 | Neither of these was adopted — the executed bridge was a conventional masonry structure of three arches — but in his design for the Coalbrookdale bridge , made in 1775 , he adapted some of the principles of the timber proposal to a structure wholly of cast iron ; and it was a modified version of this design which was executed by the Coalbrookdale Ironworks in 1777–9 — the first iron bridge in the world . |
| 5 | She was Van 's piano teacher right up to the Moscow prize , and will tell at the drop of a hat the story of his childhood promise , which first manifested itself when Van was a tender lad of three . |
| 6 | On examination there was a tender spot on the left costal margin in the mid-clavicular line and pressure there reproduced her pain exactly . |
| 7 | ( This is because 1988 was a transitional year from GCE and CSE to GCSE . |
| 8 | ‘ There was a transitional moment of delicious uneasiness and then — instantaneously — the long inhibition was over , the dry desert lay behind , I was off once more into the land of longing , my heart at once broken and exalted as it had never been since the old days at Bookham . ’ |
| 9 | There was a raised dais at one end underneath a skylight , with a sort of bed on it . |
| 10 | There was a raised dais on one side of the square on which the Sheikh Osman sat cross-legged . |
| 11 | The shocking discovery prompted a massive police operation clearly remembered by a retired policeman who was a young constable on duty in Spennymoor on the night of the slaying . |
| 12 | I joined some time in the late thirties when I was a young member of the Foreign Office . ’ |
| 13 | There was a young boy with him , who would be one of the sons . |
| 14 | The first was a young officer with a well-cut uniform and a shiny vain face . |
| 15 | Winston Churchill , when he was a young officer in India , read for four or five hours a day , developing his knowledge and love of English . |
| 16 | The woman went on to say that the social worker had written down what her husband had told her to because she was frightened of him , and because she was a young nit-wit from college no more capable of understanding the wily ways of men like her husband than she could fly . |
| 17 | There was a young clerk on duty on his own . |
| 18 | ‘ He said he could see I was a young man with all his wits about him . ’ |
| 19 | Joe 's reply was curt and Mr Beecham looked at this young man who , when he had last seen him just a few months ago , had appeared to him to be a schoolboy , immature for his age : but sitting before him now was a young man with no sign of immaturity on his countenance , for he seemed to have aged overnight , as it were . |
| 20 | The counter assistant was a young man with an ear-ring , artfully unshaven and trailing a whiff of cologne . |
| 21 | He was a young man with dark hair and bright eyes . |
| 22 | Buffy was a young man at the time , just setting out on the journey of life , if you know what I mean . |
| 23 | Put at its baldest , Jackie was a young man on the make . |
| 24 | One was a young man of noble birth : he wore a blue cloak of rash with gold lace round the hem , a pair of silk breeches of murrey tinsel , and a buff jerkin laid over with gold lace . |
| 25 | He really was a young man after her own heart . |
| 26 | There once was a young man from Surrey , |
| 27 | Among the men she was seen by was a young man from another rich Alexandrian family and when they all returned to Egypt he somehow succeeded in gaining access to her . |
| 28 | One was a young man from the shop-floor who 'd got a metal splinter in his eye and the other was a secretary who had caught her heel in one of the open staircases and twisted her ankle . |
| 29 | One had a recurrence of an old back injury involving a disc which bulged from between the vertebrae from time to time , causing intense pain , and the other was a young secretary with period pains . |
| 30 | There was a young girl at her desk with three |