Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were thrown high into the air . |
| 2 | The atomic weapon had been developed in the expectation that it would be used if necessary ; this was made explicit in the Hyde Park agreement signed by Roosevelt and Churchill in September 1944 . |
| 3 | This was made possible by the presentation of the castle , by the 5th Marquess of Bute , to the City of Cardiff in 1947 . |
| 4 | This was made possible by the fact that long American journeys involved overnight sleeping accommodation . |
| 5 | This was made possible by the return to a revenue surplus , diversion of part of which rapidly decreased the debt by the repurchase of £10.25 million of government stock . |
| 6 | This was made possible by the Kingdom 's being the world 's largest oil exporter and the possessor of its largest accumulation of reserves , estimated at some 165 billion bbl in 1980 . |
| 7 | This was made clear by the Court of Appeal in Rapier v London Tramways Co . , |
| 8 | This was made clear by the House of Lords in the leading case of Helby v. Matthews ( 1895 ) . |
| 9 | This was made clear by the House of Lords in the landmark case of Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] AC 112 . |
| 10 | This was made clear in the circular accompanying the Inner Urban Areas Act 1978 ( DoE , 1978 ) . |
| 11 | The importance of this was made evident following the results of another survey in April , this one carried out by the German Government , which identified that 46% of all tennis players suffer from tennis elbow as a result of impact shock vibration . |
| 12 | This was made easier by the fact that all the Imperial residences , with the exception of the small Villa Eugénie at Biarritz , were within easy reach of Paris and all of them were on a direct railway line to the capital . |
| 13 | The emphasis was now to be increasingly on service , given to and paid for by the state , which assumed the right to appoint its commanders ( this was made easier by the fact that all accepted the state 's money for service in war ) and to demand that it got the best available in return for its money . |
| 14 | All this was to seem academic by the Seventies when the boom finally stopped and the dream future of abundance and leisure popped like a rosy soap bubble . |
| 15 | This was granted subject to the firm understanding that ‘ they remain a sub-unit and are not absorbed into L Detachment and lose their identity ’ . |
| 16 | This was considered preferable by the Law Commission to using a single word to denote either a qualitative standard , such as " good " , or a neutral standard , such as " proper " . |
| 17 | This was considered revolutionary at the time it was written ( 1955 ) , but case study after case study elsewhere in the country now suggest the same basic pattern of large estates . |
| 18 | This was started next to the Blind Beggar pub in 1808 , and by 1809 it was being leased to a man called John Hoffman . |
| 19 | The Bretton Woods arrangements were designated to foster a network of multilateral trade and payments in the world as a whole , since this was deemed desirable for the development of world trade . |
| 20 | And the youngest was bathed first to the eldest and as the young one was bathed bed , upstairs to bed , upstairs to bed , you see and so it went on . |
| 21 | This lack of real parties during the period of Whig supremacy in 1714–60 was made possible by the lack during these years of real issues of principle around which opinion could crystallize and in terms of which politicians could arrange themselves . |
| 22 | The process of re-selection of MPs has forced fewer changes than might have been expected : only six were rejected prior to the 1987 election . |
| 23 | Part of this land was used for council housing but , as North Tyneside CDP ( 1978a ) makes clear , much was made available for the building of private housing . |
| 24 | It was held that by the offer to sell , the accused was assuming one of the rights of the owner , the right to sell . |
| 25 | These were displayed unwrapped on the shop 's cool counter-tops for customers to make their selection . |
| 26 | These were made worse by the tales and rumours which had been spread by evacuees about the devastation in north German cities , especially following the destruction of Hamburg . |
| 27 | And these were made possible by the new technical processes ( amplified sound , radio transmission of styles across social boundaries , studio instead of written composition , and so on ) . |
| 28 | These were made possible by the faith and industry of Gurney 's friend , the musicologist Marion Scott , who had preserved his manuscripts , and the editorial expertise of the composers Gerald Finzi [ q.v. ] and Howard Ferguson . |
| 29 | The ASW was asked which of these were considered applicable to the assessed individual . |
| 30 | When the prototype London ( K3560 ) first appeared it was fitted with servo-rudders , but these were removed prior to the aircraft 's Felixstowe trials . |