Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Ltd. v. Hawkins ( 1859 ) 4 H. & N. 87 was authority for the proposition that it was an ordinary incident of all corporations ( including municipal corporations ) that they might sue for libel ; that case was only authority for the proposition that a trading company might sue for libel by which its property was injured ; ( 3 ) in holding that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam when there was no basis for so holding and he should have followed it ; ( 4 ) in holding that in bringing an action for libel not alleged to have caused actual damage , no valid distinction could be made between trading corporations and municipal corporations , which ignored the true basis on which a trading corporation was permitted to sue for libel , namely that it had a trading character , the defamation of which might ruin it : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , 145 . |
2 | Erm the Conservative thirty three million and the Policy Committee is that Labour was actually sort of lowest . |
3 | Gradually , it became apparent that this lady was definitely part of David 's life . |
4 | A relatively clear-cut organisation of this kind , later to become the typical form of internal structure of all foreign offices , had already been introduced in 1661 in Sweden , where the small machine for the control of foreign policy was still part of the royal chancery and hardly an independent entity at all ; but it is interesting that it should also have evolved relatively early in a country still so isolated and underdeveloped as Russia . |
5 | Top choice was still MS-DOS with Windows , with 44% ; the 18 percentage points it has lost in the past six months have all gone to Windows NT and OS/2 . |
6 | He subsequently er went to work at the Berlick in latter years and , and this man was just sweeping-up at the Berlick and I could n't believe it cos he was so high up in the technology in the war and he 'd be a dental mechanic and he 'd come down to just being a sweeper-up , and he used to show me the pay packets he 'd got in the war and you know it was fantastic money even , even by today 's standards this is going back fifteen years |
7 | This old established British maker was also part of the Benson group , but is now up for sale . |
8 | Indeed , this was shown before it was demonstrated that the inferotemporal cortex was anatomically part of the visual system . |
9 | Bonar Law was now Leader of the House of Commons without a department , and it was indeed a full-time job to keep the governmental process going there . |
10 | Mr Patten said the 120-clause bill was only part of the Government 's strategy for the environment . |
11 | Romainmôtier Church was originally part of a Cluniac Monastery , built in the early tenth century . |
12 | Which prime minister was previously secretary of state for administrative affairs ? |
13 | In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates . |
14 | Most of them were young horsemen on the East Anglian farms and a braided belt was almost part of the dress . |
15 | Called the ‘ father of English canals ’ , Brindley was originally a millwright by trade , born in Derbyshire in 1716 and barely educated , but showing a natural genius for engineering in an age when that word was scarcely part of the vocabulary . |
16 | Only on one unit was there evidence of good buildings and this was due to the farmer 's previous experience in the building trade . |
17 | The parish school was usually small and relied on one teacher , whose small house was often part of the school buildings . |
18 | Home Office figures put the total of offences at a record five point seven million but the rate of increase showed a sharp drop on the two previous years and more than half the recorded crime was either theft of or from vehicles . |
19 | Equally , the unofficial communique was undoubtedly part of a rank-and-file protest against pressures for reform generated by the Scarman Report , even if no mention is made of it ! |
20 | Simplicity and ceremonial seem to express the changing pattern of Nonconformist worship but that worship was only part of a wider search for dignity , a dignity which was mainly realized in the new and improved buildings Nonconformity was erecting up and down the country . |
21 | A TWO YEAR OLD Rumanian girl was both guest of honour and raison d'etre for a ball and charity evening held at the Black Horse Hotel , Skipton , writes J A F Sheard . |
22 | ‘ Do n't worry … this whole area was once part of a vast forest . |
23 | The reorganization of local government described in Chapter 4 confirmed that local government was indeed part of a much wider state system , and the 1973 oil crisis followed by the onset of economic depression deepened the pressures on that system . |