Example sentences of "[pron] was [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I invite him to read the Prime Minister 's response to the right hon. Member for Chesterfield , which was far and away the most interesting part of the debate — Amended text or not , it reveals the muddle to which the other 11 nations of Europe do not subscribe . |
| 2 | When she was young and maybe a little wilful , Elizabeth had made what she deemed to be the right decision , and she had suffered because of it . |
| 3 | It was argued that since any payment above the standard rent would be illegal and indeed a criminal offence under section 17 of that Act , the lease itself was unlawful and accordingly the agreement for commission fixed upon the amount of the rent stipulated in it was also illegal and irrecoverable . |
| 4 | It was possible that even a reject like him could be of use in such a godforsaken spot . |
| 5 | On some railroads , however , it was far and away the most important single item of freight . |
| 6 | It was interesting that quite a number saw their being easily located at their place of work as a benefit . |
| 7 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 8 | It was adventurous and yet a bit modest and down-to-earth . |
| 9 | It was true that both the house and the grounds had the curious quality of seeming larger than they were . |
| 10 | It was unlikely that even a common language could create a common national spirit to unite Spanish-speaking people divided by the salt , estranging sea , but as long as empires based on the principles of allegiance to a monarch were the dominant form of political organization they were very well adapted to face the problems of expanding and then of ruling new subjects . |
| 11 | By the early sixties … it was clear that neither the efforts made in the first post-war decade nor the developments outlined in Mr Butler 's White Paper were reducing — or were likely to reduce — the volume of crime or the numbers of persistent offenders . |
| 12 | They stood to attention , but it was clear that both the administrator and his deputy were unsure of the proper response . |
| 13 | But for years the garden , with its extraordinary follies and temples , had been decaying , and it was clear that soon no more than a few heaps of stone would be left . |
| 14 | From March 1918 it was clear that only a crushing military victory by one or other side would bring ‘ peace ’ . |
| 15 | The plenum , in the event , made little influence upon the continuing discussion , and by the early 1990s it was clear that only a reconsideration of the very bases of Soviet statehood would be likely to satisfy the aspirations of the various republics and nationalities . |
| 16 | Shipbuilding was in crisis , and it was clear that only the fittest could survive . |
| 17 | We wrote it down and repeated it time and time again to Sergeant Moustaine , until he was satisfied that even the most stupid of us had understood it . |
| 18 | Something like £1,500 shared among the family , not to mention generous bequests , including £200 towards the completion of Lavenham steeple and cash distributed among the parishes where Spring owned property , virtually accounts for what was far and away the greatest personal estate owned by any commoner , or for that matter almost any peer : only the duke of Norfolk 's £4,000 topped it . |
| 19 | Underlining this was not only a sense of what was proper but also a sense of what was politically and socially wise . |