Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [subord] [art] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked about London and working in London , which was genial enough as the wine was poured , and then he put a spin on it . |
| 2 | So the decision in the Factories Act case was justifiable only if the Act was regarded as not plain . |
| 3 | There was an omen of this even while the legislation was passing through Parliament . |
| 4 | This ‘ RG ’ equipment ( see Appendix 3 ) sent a beam of' invisible infra-red light from an Aldis-type lamp , the signal being visible only when the beam was on the little black box camera-sized receiver with a screen which , when the beam was intercepted , showed a green spot against speckle of' green pin-pricks of infra-red light from the stars . |
| 5 | Dodging the press was n't going to be easy and Kenneth and I did n't leave the theatre until 1.30 a.m. when the all-clear was given by the wonderfully protective theatre staff . |
| 6 | Where an officer of government in the exercise of his office obtains payment of moneys as and for a charge which the law enables him to demand and enforce , such moneys may be recovered back from him if it should afterwards turn out that they were not legally payable even though no protest was made or question raised at the time of payment . |
| 7 | John Gadsby who travelled across France in 1855 found that he needed two greatcoats and a large travelling wrapper to keep himself warm even though the carriage was supplied with hot footwarmers which were renewed at certain stops along the route . |
| 8 | Priene was rebuilt near the mouth of the River Meander about 334 B.C. Because the town was not of great importance under the late Roman rule , few alterations were made to adapt it to Roman needs , so much of the Hellenistic building has survived . |
| 9 | the misleading price indication related to a recommended price , which did not apply to the price at which the item was available from the defendant , and which the defendant could reasonably believe was generally being charged , and which was false only because a supplier was not following the recommendation . |
| 10 | The Queen 's Hotel in Cheltenham was evacuated shortly before three a.m. when the fire was discovered in the basement . |
| 11 | They were chosen for the award by an independent panel of judges comprising leading local journalists from the print and electronic media and are the sixth award winners from the state of Kedah and the 142nd overall since the scheme was launched in July 1975 . |
| 12 | The moral code remained an ideal even if the performance was inferior , and for tribes and clans the aspiration was what counted : those who fought , sacrificed and died together became brothers , their leaders fathers . |
| 13 | The fact that this was credible only if the youth was retarded made the moral crux which followed rather pointless . |
| 14 | It happened sometime between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. when the owner was otherwise distracted . |
| 15 | The security search fee was non-returnable even if a loan was not granted , and increased by a shilling for every mile the searcher had to go beyond two miles . |
| 16 | But there is nothing to preclude a charge being brought under section 5 even though the arrest was not effected under the section . |
| 17 | Whatever the excuse , we reached Lochan a' Choire at 3 p.m. when the sun was starting to remember it was needed elsewhere . |
| 18 | Twenty editions were published in the six weeks following the King 's death , and several more even after the book was banned by the Government . |
| 19 | ‘ No — I was riding one long before the environment was heard of . |
| 20 | A defence is available only where the defendant was in his own or another 's house , and he failed to realise and had no reason to be aware that he would be overheard . |
| 21 | Thus , the defence of mistake is available only when the mistake was that of the defendant himself , Birkenhead & District Co-op Society v. Roberts ( 1970 D.C. ) . |
| 22 | A major influence was undoubtedly the personality of the dean himself , but the essential catalysts were the decision by the department of anatomy that it could no longer continue to operate two separate curricula — one for the traditional course and one for the parallel track — and the decision by several of the charitable funders of the new pathway that future grants would be available only if the scheme was adopted throughout the school . |
| 23 | This criticism is part of a wider attack on the use of classification of functions as a criterion for deciding issues such as the availability of judicial remedies to control administrative action ( the remedy of certiorari was at one time said to be available only if the decision-maker was under a duty to act ‘ judicially ’ ) , or the applicability of the rules of natural justice in particular circumstances ( sometimes said to apply only to ‘ judicial functions ’ ) . |
| 24 | We launched our offensive just as the meeting was supposed to have started . |
| 25 | The issue has bitterly divided the community surrounding the common ever since the complex was first mooted . |
| 26 | And I could see I was going to get warmer still because the bullock was beginning to enjoy the game , kicking up his heels and frisking around after each attempt . |
| 27 | The 26-way tree structure gave very fast search times , but memory requirements were almost unmanageable especially if the process was to be attempted on a small personal computer . |