Example sentences of "was [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if it was pre-theatre the diners would be all edgy and watching their watches . |
| 2 | The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) and the Nature Conservancy Council ( NCC ) assailed plans to afforest the unique peatlands of Caithness and Sutherland Flow Country , where the Commission was grant-aiding the private sector . |
| 3 | While I was pregnant a young security guard used to enquire solicitously about the state of my ankles . |
| 4 | And er the fact that she 's obviously gone on without it was awful , when she was pregnant the second time round she did n't make a big thing of being pregnant but you could tell she was pregnant but I never quite liked to say to her just in case they had the amnio amnio whatever it is and decided not to go |
| 5 | The interest in local on-farm training was due no doubt to the difficulty that many found in getting away from their farms for a whole day . |
| 6 | Although she was due a week later in Glasgow , I did not go there . |
| 7 | The tabby a couple of houses away on the other side is a cheeky sod and was due a lesson next time I found him walking around like he owned the place . |
| 8 | The lad 's prize was a silver shilling , the maids got a shilling and a kiss , and Mrs. Jarrett — well , for one terrified minute she thought she was due a kiss , too , but instead she had a stately one-round waltz on the meadow with the master , while everyone else laughed 206 or cheered or sang their own idea of a waltz tune . |
| 9 | Falconer , out of action for six months after a knee operation , said : ‘ I think I was due a goal . |
| 10 | If the tide was low the two of them watched the gleams on the foreshore , at half tide they heard the water chuckling , waiting to lift the boats , at flood tide they saw the river as a powerful god , bearded with the white foam of detergents , calling home the twenty-seven lost rivers of London , sighing as the night declined . |
| 11 | If the crime was accidental the family of the deceased may collect ‘ blood money ’ . |
| 12 | The trio of vessels ( with a combined weight less than one of today 's jumbo jets ) passed the tip of a small island where it was dear the two oceans ' waters met — the point is now named Crosstides — and through the Paso Tortuosa . |
| 13 | There was no doubting her sister 's passion as she struggled to express her resentment , writing : — on my life Lily I declare I want only what is best for the child and would not be Cruel to him nor the cause of Cruelty and what you asked was Cruel the child knowing no Italian and being Fearful of leaving me the only Mother he has known and who he loves as his own . |
| 14 | He was alive no doubt ; who is not alive ? |
| 15 | Soon after this was complete a spur line from Stratford to wharves at Bow Creek , extended to North Woolwich , was added . |
| 16 | Even when the reorganization of schools was complete the 29 per cent of pupils who were in grammar schools absorbed 49 per cent of the costs for all secondary pupils . |
| 17 | After that implementation was complete the firm was forced to scale down what had grown into a moderately large development organisation , and retreated from view somewhat , concentrating on customising software , testing and consultancy . |
| 18 | To put the price into perspective Mr Vernon added that although the 18-knot Arun class building programme was complete the price would now be somewhere around £800,000 . |
| 19 | After the Moslem occupation was complete the small area left to Christian Spain consisted of the north-west mountain district in Galicia and Asturias . |
| 20 | As was usual the government released no economic statistics considered reliable by international commentators . |
| 21 | Once this was dry a warm blue violet was mixed , without any turpentine or medium to ensure a ‘ stiff ’ paint . |
| 22 | So let's sum up , I treated a similar case with 5 times the amount of fluid than the article used , the case was solid the next day and was viewed for 3 days and had no greying off and the colour was really good . |
| 23 | I 'm usually quite clear-minded , but it was strange the way my unconscious set to work , pushing back my maternal goalposts and persuading me that another year or two would do my hoped-for child no harm . ’ |
| 24 | The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case . |
| 25 | I even saw one video of a council meeting where an irate councillor , having virtually dug himself into a trench in an attempt to protect his interests in the face of strategic questioning by the YCCC , actually lost his cool and demanded that an old man who was tape-recording the meeting should either stop recording or get out ! |
| 26 | Babs Osborne said it was odd the way Stella was always around when tragedy struck . |
| 27 | He sat down on a log and tried to perform what he thought of as the vanishing act , whereby you became insofar as it was possible a part of the surroundings : breathing , seeing , hearing only — merely an aspect of the place , a dimension , like the robin or the moss-covered log or the leafmould on which his feet rested . |
| 28 | Of course it was possible the van was parked there only because the man was inside destroying coypu or moles or rats or woodworm , but somehow Adam did n't think so . |
| 29 | More generally , and more importantly , this was a classic case in which it was possible the jury could be tempted to convict W by association with his co-accused against whom the evidence was stronger . |
| 30 | So they asked me if it was possible the Josephs were bringing drugs in from France along with their haul of works of art . ’ |