Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj] [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's really rather curious how although David was happy to give me the names of these various lab magazines , lab equipment things , erm , he was very chary of sending me er copy of his own production . |
| 2 | In April , Robb who would be roi was anxious to prove himself a fully paid-up Hartlepudlian , a member of everything from West Hartlepool Rugby Club to the governors of Fens School . |
| 3 | For many years serious and respectable citizens had worried about the new masses but now at least entrepreneurs and businessmen were able to offer them every service , every distraction , and every entertainment that their wages allowed . |
| 4 | Even the genial Binkie Beaumont was prepared to pay him a third of what the experienced Emlyn Williams knew he was worth and could get . |
| 5 | Maggie was ready to give him the glory , to return to him and stay with him forever . |
| 6 | Like all British officials of the Egyptian Government I had been dismissed from my university post eighteen months before , and I was glad that the British Council was able to offer me a small post in Athens , instead of piece work in Cairo . |
| 7 | Kirsty was able to tell me a great deal of what had taken place in the operating theatre . |
| 8 | The UK was prepared to set itself the " very demanding target " of stabilizing total UK emissions of CO2 at 1990 levels by 2005 as part of " a wide international effort , with a fair distribution of the burden " , and " provided others are ready to take their full share " . |
| 9 | When one of the men he had employed as a ploughman in the autumn came to the farm , more in hope than the expectation of finding any work , Seb was able to offer him a day 's pay . |
| 10 | This meant that people were prepared to offer me a sequence of positions in which I only had to do research without having to lecture . |
| 11 | The young lord was overjoyed to see what a beautiful wife his friends had found for him . |
| 12 | Oxford City Council councils housing experts were able to tell her the eviction order is illegal . |
| 13 | The hand-outs were vital to get them a bite , to help them survive in their pitiful plight . |
| 14 | He was so damned humble that O'Hara was obliged to offer him a cup of coffee . |
| 15 | Aisling 's condition is quite severe but the doctor was able to give her a discernible lip-line and reduce the depth of staining on her face by up to 20pc . |
| 16 | Mrs Burrows was careful to indicate what a privilege this was , her only son and she , Alexandra , a nobody and a temporary resident at that . |
| 17 | So , by dint of various enquiries , we managed to locate a house in a more salubrious area , Cardington Road , where the landlady was prepared to offer us a small sitting-room in addition , for an extra guinea a week . |
| 18 | The incredible thing was Luigi was happy to give him the shirt — that 's how important he was . ‘ |
| 19 | No gender differences were in fact detected , but the assessment system was rendered less liable to such biases staff were sensitized to their existence and nature and the course was able to give itself a clean bill of health without any special data collection effort being required . |
| 20 | Connoisseurs who heard tape copies were also suspicious of the vocal mannerisms ; but engineers at the National Sound Archive were able to declare it a forgery the moment they heard it , for an unassailable technical reason . |
| 21 | England was a civilised country , where policemen were happy to tell you the time and give you directions in the street . |
| 22 | Hitler was able to offer them a new mass base for the apparent consolidation of their leadership positions within the framework of an authoritarian system , together with the prospect of Germany attaining a position of hegemony within Europe and even world power status . |