Example sentences of "[conj] was [adj] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He read the game appallingly , was caught out several times , and chuffed his way around the back right like a horse that was due for the knackers yard . |
| 2 | And they were the sort of corsets that gave you the the straight boyish look that was necessary for the clothes of the twenties and the early thirties which were cut on the cross . |
| 3 | However , during this period a rate of growth was achieved that was good by the standards of the mid-1970s , full employment was maintained , and inflation , while ever present , was never so high as to cause alarm . |
| 4 | Infusion of 10 mM deoxycholate into the transverse colon or caecum produced an increase PYY that was similar to the responses in the sigmoid colon . |
| 5 | The Judge held that the prosecution had been under a duty to disclose the video whether it had been demanded or not , that the view the camera had was of an area of the club that was relevant to the res gestae , that the tape would have contained matters of relevance to the defendants and that it was wrong for the police officer to have formed the view that it was of no relevance . |
| 6 | In the first half of the 1980s , two events more than any others tested the malleability and breadth of the law that was available to the authorities . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the general conclusion of observers was that the vote , however flawed , was the most free expression of Romanian opinion that was possible under the circumstances , and that the victory of the NSF reflected the wishes of the majority of Romanian voters . |
| 8 | P. S. You 'd get a feller that was friendly with the bosses . |
| 9 | The fast process would ensure that each cortical neuron tended to respond to an input feature that was different from the features of other cortical neurons . |
| 10 | The walls of the pit were almost sheer , falling fifty feet to smooth , dull water that was jagged at the edges , like the top of a tin can . |
| 11 | According to the argument , it was the passing of the law that was important to the reformers , not how effectively it was enforced afterwards . |
| 12 | The fountain-head and settling tank of the aqueduct were also rebuilt ; two fragmentary inscriptions would suggest that the work was carried out by a detachment of Legio XX , possibly the same detachment that was responsible for the granaries . |
| 13 | I replied that we were studying and writing , a fact that was obvious from the books , dictionaries and papers scattered over the table and the bed . |
| 14 | It placed a disproportionately severe restriction on the defendant 's right to compete after leaving the employment and went further than was reasonable in the interests of the parties . |
| 15 | While at Trelawne he was known as a jovial fellow who drank more wine than was customary among the clergy , but was not without a vicious temper and a rough tongue . |
| 16 | ‘ The idea came to me because as a 15-year-old I worked as a plumber in churches and was impressed by the windows , ’ said Dave . |
| 17 | In this group ( Table 3 ) , the association between the ACE/ID polymorphism and myocardial infarction was highly significant and was homogeneous across the populations ; the overall odds ratio ( an estimate of relative risk ) , adjusted for population , was 3.2 ( P= 0.0001 ) . |
| 18 | Mrs Dass read two further novels by Dennis Wheatley , and was unaware of the statements made to her husband by Timothy Gedge . |
| 19 | He worked contentedly for some time and was deep in the intricacies of a genealogy when the telephone rang . |
| 20 | Article 119 took direct effect and was enforceable through the courts of a member state . |
| 21 | Moreover , if such an increase in chlorophyll-specific production had occurred and was responsible for the changes in zooplankton biomass , the hypothesized increase in primary productivity would have to reflect an increase in new production which , in turn , must be fuelled by a systematic increase in nutrient supply to the region . |
| 22 | 52 , 72 , that the payment was made under compulsion and was recoverable under the principles of the judgments in Morgan v. Palmer . |
| 23 | She had expected to find them both still in bed , and was surprised by the noises from the kitchen , but she poked her head round the door and saw Maggie sitting at the kitchen table eating Weetabix in a reassuringly healthy way . |
| 24 | He spent a career as a local government officer and was active in the affairs of the Methodist Church . |
| 25 | Manufacturing employment decline reached the level of 29.7 per cent in Greater London , from 1981 to 1987 , and was prevalent throughout the cities and other districts of metropolitan counties . |
| 26 | He was a radical , a follower of Charles James Fox , the Whig leader and was sympathetic to the aims of the French Revolution . |
| 27 | Perhaps he only aimed to chivvy those civilians in another direction , but was inexpert in the settings of the weapon . |
| 28 | She blew her nose as daintily as was possible in the circumstances and handed the handkerchief back with a wan smile . |
| 29 | As was usual with the rulers of the British empire , moral display served a dual purpose , being intended not only to improve native character but also to stimulate native loyalty . |
| 30 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |