Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not speak to Harold Wilson or to Lady Falkender about the matter , since I was sure that strenuous efforts would be made to prevent disclosure , but I was equally sure from Denis Hamilton 's attitude that this would not succeed and it was therefore better not to try . |
| 2 | I was present when one subject adviser made a visit , first to see the head , then the head of department and finally the whole department . |
| 3 | ‘ So I was delighted when last night he clarified the issue for the nation . |
| 4 | I am now nineteen and until I was seventeen I was ignorant as any babe . |
| 5 | Ca n't say I was sorry when that fellow topped himself . ’ |
| 6 | Even before the epic success of the 1991 Davis Cup final in Lyon , which left me ever more passionately against such an idea , I was convinced that such changes would do more harm than good . |
| 7 | Before I came to prison I thought I was introspective but ten minutes here and there is not enough to answer some of these questions |
| 8 | Because I was certain that other things lay beneath the surface . |
| 9 | I was lucky that two people was asking |
| 10 | But , at that stage , the only thing that prevented me from saying , ‘ oh well , I 'll go and find a regular job instead , ’ was that I was aware that this thing existed — racialism — and that whatever happened , getting away from it , getting out of the firing line , would n't help me . |
| 11 | Having had to resort to asking passers-by to pull it closed for me , I was worried that one day I would n't be able to get in . |
| 12 | Sal was a couple of years older than me and Pop would spoil us rotten — meals on trays in front of the telly , day trips to Belle Vue fun park or Blackpool — so I was surprised when one week she refused the usual invitation . |
| 13 | So I was surprised when one morning , while filling the kettle at the tap in the yard , I noticed some of our neighbours looking across at this cottage where a painter was taking the ‘ To Let ’ sign out of the window . |
| 14 | I was alone that last evening in Leningrad . |
| 15 | I was horrified and sought help . |
| 16 | As a painting tutor , I was conscious that complete beginners may be a little overwhelmed by the sophistication of the written material — some of the thought and painting processes are quite advanced — but this should not prevent them from thoroughly enjoying this unique opportunity to ‘ look over the shoulder ’ of the experts . |
| 17 | I was amazed that excellent organisations like the National Heart Foundation have to arrange charity runs in order to raise money . |
| 18 | They would also remove any personal belongings which were removable and next day place them on prominent display , according to Polperro 's Quiller Couch , ‘ … to disclose the disgraceful want of vigilance supposed to characterise the owner ’ . |
| 19 | Even during our period a great part of agriculture was conducted in ways which would have been quite familiar a hundred , even two hundred years earlier , which was natural since striking results could still be achieved by generalising the best methods known to pre-industrial farming . |
| 20 | But when parliament woke up to the electronic age and first allowed its proceedings to be broadcast in 1978 , nobody was sure whether those broadcasts were also privileged . |
| 21 | It was a perfect opportunity for some writers to express the resentment which they had harboured against him for many years , and he himself was convinced that such people detested him because he had acquired British citizenship . |
| 22 | Teachers who were arrogant and distant fell into this category and it is easy to see how they offend against the central principle and are deemed contemptuous . |
| 23 | In school , we were taught by teachers who were conscientious and honest people . |
| 24 | Long ago I went to a seminar of archivists who were confident that particular instance papers could be sampled by a variety of statistical methods and if necessary could be anonymized without damage . |
| 25 | The body 's centre line and she equated that and what she said was in terms of the hands that people who were open and positive communicators used on average more symmetrical open palm gestures than individual or closed palm gestures non-symmetrical . |
| 26 | His parents , who were fair and liberal-minded people , were nonetheless confused and upset , and while giving Rajiv freedom to follow his convictions , they forbade him to be baptised until he had come of age . |
| 27 | 267 , which came to the Privy Council just before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was created , provides a valuable illustration of the fact that in the absence of such arrangements as were made between the Inns of Court and the judges in this country , the power to judges to determine who were fit and proper persons to practise before them , where it existed , was regarded as essential for the due administration of justice . |
| 28 | ‘ Both were using it in the sense that , in regard to the Inns , the judges over a long period , from time to time , had concurred in the Inns performing the duty of selecting those persons who were fit and proper persons to be called to the Bar and to be entitled to a right of audience in the courts and the duty of suspending or prohibiting such persons from practice . |
| 29 | In In re X ( A Student ) , 11 November 1991 , Brooke J. explained why that Act had had no effect on the jurisdiction of the Inns , subject to the supervision of the judges , to decide who were fit and proper persons to be admitted to the Inns for training . |
| 30 | ‘ although in the Act of 1990 Parliament introduced a new statutory machinery for supervising and regulating the rules for education and conduct for those who are to have rights of audience in the courts it decided not to interfere expressly with the jurisdiction of the Inns , under the supervision of the judges , to decide who were fit and proper persons to be admitted to the Inns for training or their liberty to decide the criteria which should dictate their admissions policy . |