Example sentences of "was [noun] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the final war bulletin had been signed on 1 April 1939 , Franco did not enter the capital until 18 May , which was Ascension Day that year . |
| 2 | No longer was Ian Paisley some sort of raving lunatic on the fringes of unionist politics . |
| 3 | During the Friday evening a banquet was held in the Hallam Hall , at which the principal guest was Colonel Sir Crisp English , the Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths , whose presence marked the coming together again of the Company and its erstwhile School . |
| 4 | He was branch representative 1989–90 . |
| 5 | The truth was Denis O'Neil Senior could well have been a professional singer . |
| 6 | Towards the end of May 1689 one Londoner said that " the Crowne and Kingdome was King James proper right " , and " that King James had promist to settle the Church as now by law Established " . |
| 7 | No longer was Ibn Battuta inexperienced or vulnerable . |
| 8 | ‘ Dr Strangelove ’ was not to be imagined for a few more years but it was n t reassuring to learn that nuclear submarine crews were supplied with pistols with which to shoot any shipmate who showed signs of wanting to fire an unauthorized missile . |
| 9 | The last cheque written was cheque no. 000007 for £250 payable to Scorton C E School and according to your statement cashed on 29 January . |
| 10 | Martin haycock says they had a terrific start and after that it was rythm rythm all the way |
| 11 | The first was Starr v National Coal Board [ 1977 ] 1 WLR 63 which dealt with the plaintiff 's right to object to being examined at all by the defendant 's doctor . |
| 12 | It was Miss Honey this and Miss Honey that and Miss Honey I do honestly feel I could move almost anything in the world , not just tipping over glasses and little things like that … |
| 13 | It was episode number 777 . |
| 14 | The final product , published in 1971 with Dick Milnes 's assistance , was Nottinghamshire Cricketers 1821–1914 , a limited edition of 250 including an essay on the career and life of every player form that period . |
| 15 | On the French side the Black Prince 's principal opponent was Ring John II , who succeeded his father Philip VI in 1350 and who was to allow his enthusiasm for chivalric deeds to outrun his political and military judgement . |
| 16 | ‘ Kim and Jacqui will be the cops , Frances and Eddie will shadow them with the shaving foam and stuff , ’ said Simon , like it was Normandy beach 1944 . |
| 17 | Naturally , Richie Benaud and the home players took their full share of the credit , but it was Worrell who was hero number one . |
| 18 | He was Alan Stephen Wild , 38 , said to be five feet nine inches , with fair hair . |
| 19 | Was Dr Shalcross mad ? |
| 20 | Another proponent of a National Government was Major-General Jack Seely , a former Liberal minister . |
| 21 | The only saving grace was Robert Downey Junior 's performance as the comic genius they said . |
| 22 | ‘ How was Graham Mills involved with all this. ? ’ |
| 23 | There was Emil Brunner one of the two leading Christian thinkers on the Continent of Europe ; there was Reinhold Niebuhr , one of the two leading Christian thinkers from the United States ; there was Visser t'Hooft , the Dutchman who built up the World Council of Churches ; there was J. H. Oldham , at that moment the leading thinker about Christian society in the British Isles ; and there was Bernard Manning , the Congregationalist historian who was a friend of the Ramsey family in Cambridge . |
| 24 | The posters include a description of 51-year-old Mr McEvoy who was 6ft 1ins tall and heavily built . |
| 25 | " A poem should not mean but be " was Archibald MacLeish' extreme statement of this position , and the strength of monism in the 1940s and 1950s can be gauged from Wimsatt 's pronouncement : It is hardly necessary to adduce proof that the doctrine of identity of style and meaning is today firmly established . |
| 26 | Was Mr Portillo able to say categorically that ‘ yes , Oxfordshire will benefit , next time the budget is planned ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Was Mr Dysart one of the passengers ? ’ |
| 28 | He added : ‘ Was Mr Major aware of the breaches of the guidelines ? |
| 29 | It was Pentium day last week , and ICL Plc weighed in with the TeamServer F5 , boasting a dual-bus architecture , specifically designed to loose the full processor capacity and high-speed caching architecture . |
| 30 | In only 5% of classes was teacher guidance inadequate . |