Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [noun] was [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also led to some strategic thinking : it was clear that Prussia was now the dominant land power in Europe , and that the defences of Britain were by no means impressive — much of the army was always away in the colonies , and the navy on distant stations . |
| 2 | One morning , it became clear that NARCOG was not the only group using Filanta Court as a base for its intelligence operations . |
| 3 | From this letter it is clear that Smart was not the only person asked to write on Leapor . |
| 4 | Although the Utting report , which was published in the summer , made it clear that training was not the central issue in such cases , I am not arguing that professionalism is not important . |
| 5 | At the time Henry was three years old while Margaret was still a baby . |
| 6 | Entirely without authority he sold it for £75 to Harper , a garage proprietor who was unaware that Searle was not the owner . |
| 7 | She did n't earn much and dinner was usually a bowl of soup and a cold platter at the small restaurant next door to the Goldener Adler . |
| 8 | Marine was a consumer deal and that the new one made between Rasbora Ltd. and J.C.L.Marine was also a consumer deal , i.e. that the novation did not alter the consumer nature of the contract . |
| 9 | And again she found herself thinking that maybe Jeff had been right and Guido was simply an insufferable bully , the type of man it would be all too easy to fall out with . |
| 10 | There were areas where sheep-farming or cattle-breeding was still the most important economic activity . |
| 11 | Modern communications make the diffusion of ideas in a largely literate population so rapid that Freud was undoubtedly a name more widely known in his own lifetime than was Newton 's a hundred years after his death . |
| 12 | It was so damned unfair that Henry was n't the complete charlatan he should have been . |
| 13 | The Boards were conscious that cooking was generally an off-peak load ( and thus cheap to supply ) , and , to reflect this advantage to themselves and meet gas competition , they generally accepted lower retail mark-ups on cookers than was usual on other appliances . |
| 14 | The rulers of Thessaly , then , resembled the Macedonians in considered as Greek was racially no worse than Macedon 's ; Simonides had performed there before Pindar , and in 460 Thessaly was to produce an Olympic victor called Agias . |
| 15 | Mosley 's brand of Fascism was certainly to become anti-Semitic after 1934 but anti-Semitism was not a condition of its early development . |
| 16 | ‘ Sure that Michael was always a difficult one . |
| 17 | " Now " was 1824 and Place was not the only witness before a select committee in that year to make this point . |
| 18 | Richard knew he was related to Tory somehow , but was not sure if cousin was quite the right word . |
| 19 | Most are found associated with forts or their vici , such as Lancaster , Binchester , Lanchester , Housesteads , Risingham , Chesterholm and Greta Bridge , but they are also known from the civitas capitals of Wroxeter and Winchester and the small towns of Dorchester and Catterick ; it is possible , though , that the latter were present when Catterick was still a military vicus , since one of the inscriptions is dated to AD 191 . |
| 20 | Not even that low humming sound which I knew sure as hell was n't the thermostat on the fridge . |
| 21 | IN THE LATE Fifties when news-gathering was still a soft-hat and trenchcoat job , Helen Mason became a reporter with the Daily Record . |
| 22 | The budget ran into millions and staffing was always a nightmare . |
| 23 | And when you think of a man earning about at the most two pounds ten shillings a week , one and sixpence was quite a sizable amount out of it , but eventually he paid it all off . |
| 24 | The agreement , reached after two years of negotiations , was made possible after the European Court of Justice ( the EC 's judicial body ) had changed a previous position and ruled--in a case brought by a Belgian village seeking to stop the dumping of Dutch waste-that waste was not a " commercial good " and could therefore by implication be exempted from the principle of free movement of goods enshrined in the European single market due to be introduced in 1993 . |
| 25 | They also loved their partner to take the initiative as they found it boring if sex was always a case of the man trying it on . |
| 26 | That employment was necessary because Winchester was not the subject of the decision of 30 October 1990 . |
| 27 | Although some biologists had become aware that Nature was not a system designed to progress inevitably towards higher levels of development , others retained the kind of progressionism that had been used to make the general idea of evolution palatable in the wake of Darwin 's Origin of Species . |
| 28 | While it is true that self-evaluation was officially a requirement of participating schools , and that at least one school undertook some evaluation which it broadened to a development of its original project proposal into a statement of library policy for the school as a whole , specific requirements for precise and quantitative monitoring were absent . |