Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Monday 27 February Fleischmann and Pons were due to bring their working cell to Brigham Young University for the neutron spectrum to be measured , but a graduate student had to go to a funeral and so they suggested it would be better to come at the end of the week instead . |
| 2 | There is some evidence that it was Snowden who suggested the formula of the ‘ doctor 's mandate ’ , at a Cabinet meeting on 5 October , under which the component parts of the National Government were each to issue their own manifestos , with a separate personal appeal from the Prime Minister , According to Neville Chamberlain , ‘ Snowden … produced the suggestion that the Prime Minister should issue his own manifesto asking for a free hand [ i.e. on tariffs ] and the two Party leaders should each issue their own programmes and to our astonishment this was at once accepted by the Liberals , ' Amery , who perhaps got the information from Chamberlain , wrote in his diary on 6 October , ‘ Apparently when the deadlock seemed most complete Snowden suggested that the PM should issue his own manifesto , each of the other party leaders issuing theirs . ' |
| 3 | Naturally the overseas extensions of the Anglican way of life were interested to revise their own prayer books . |
| 4 | Realizing the futility of isolation , many of the Party members were prepared to reverse their earlier decision to leave the Labour Party . |
| 5 | Well , you know , apart from anything else they always they were prepared to give me free tickets for the would never do that . |
| 6 | The staff nurses were prepared to forgive his short temper on duty , as he was ‘ such fun on a party ’ . |
| 7 | When they could not get gold for their dollars after 1971 ( the US gold stock fell by only $2½ billion over the whole period ) , they only acquired these dollars because they were prepared to sell their own currencies in order to prevent them rising further . |
| 8 | Earlier , Baker had told NATO ministers that he had been satisfactorily assured by the four republics which he had visited that they were prepared to place their nuclear weapons under one authority , with some republics expressing interest in becoming non-nuclear powers [ see also p. 38655 ] . |
| 9 | The control regime was liberalized for computer , machine tool and telecommunications technology ( microcomputer exports having been permitted since August 1989 ) ; companies seeking exceptions to remaining restrictions would have to wait only eight weeks for permission , rather than 12 weeks as hitherto ; and countries such as Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland , if they were prepared to introduce their own controls on use and re-export , might expect more favourable treatment . |
| 10 | Another indication of his value to the side was that the club and his colleagues were prepared to approve his occasional absences from the team at distant away matches because his commitments at school prevented him from making the Friday journey . |
| 11 | Farmers were free to use their own initiative more and had an incentive to increase crop-yields , i.e. profits . |
| 12 | In 1935 the French were free to arrange their own wine laws , but they are now subject to EEC regulations and I doubt that Champagne , despite its unique viticultural situation , would be allowed to dispense with a maximum yield in favour of an average production yardstick . |
| 13 | Within ten months the building had been purchased , converted , renovated , occupied by its new owners , and a condominium created — a housing association in which residents jointly owned the equity but were free to sell their individual shares if they wished to move . |
| 14 | They were free to pursue their loyalist goals unhindered , while making strong-sounding nationalist statements which authenticated their leadership among the local community where they had economic or family status . |
| 15 | In theory , parties were free to frame their own transactions , which could then be carried out without legal impediment ; in the event that a bargain fell through , or if one party balked or proved unable to perform , the law of contract made freely available the regular judicial processes of the court system , in which economic damages would be awarded to the party aggrieved . |
| 16 | Nobody doubted her courage , and we were wrong to doubt her common sense . |
| 17 | Even if they were willing to see their own power reduced , radical reform is a jump into the unknown . |
| 18 | But he still feels miffed and mystified as to why manager Kevin Keegan discarded him so readily from St James ' Park and why no other Premier League clubs were willing to hire his lethal skills . |
| 19 | ‘ But you became greedy , Barney , ’ she said , ‘ you became so greedy you were willing to sell your own daughter like a beast at the fair , forcing her to marry a lecherous oul wretch that 's old enough to be her father . |
| 20 | Offenders who were reconvicted within the follow-up period were likely to have their first reconviction fairly soon after sentence ( or , for those given custodial sentences , after discharge ) . |
| 21 | Although it happens far less frequently , a divorced man can rely on his former wife 's contribution record during the years they were married to improve his basic pension . |
| 22 | The Goldsmiths accepted with alacrity Middleton 's offer to resign owing to " daily declining health " on 27th April 1847 , but were unwilling to honour his final request : |
| 23 | Civil war was averted , but while the 120-strong squadron of cavalry were able to hold back the rioters in Aÿ , they were unwilling to engage their fellow citizens in open conflict and failed to prevent the mob from sacking and burning the premises of Ayala , Bissinger and Deutz & Geldermann in Aÿ . |
| 24 | According to a married 35-year-old credit manager : ‘ At our school we were all approaching our 16th birthdays and it was like anyone who reaches 16 and he 's still a virgin — what a nancy . |
| 25 | Put like this it seems extremely cold and unfeeling , but it must be said that if we were all to make our own arrangements without any order or form then chaos would quickly result . |
| 26 | The passengers were saddened by the thought that they were unlikely to see their native land again but probably neither before nor since has a group of people set out with more determination to establish a society founded on the highest principles of religion and education . |
| 27 | Casteleyn observed that ‘ Smaller libraries may not need a full-time training officer but may be able to benefit from the advice of a training officer employed to develop training centrally for the whole organisation ’ , and suggested that ‘ smaller authorities who were unlikely to have their own training officers should look to their authority 's training department for support ’ but it seems that in practice , smaller libraries are least likely to have an existing strong centre of training expertise to turn to . |
| 28 | Walter had me into his panelled wankpit of an office , classified my request to change the name on my cheques from N.O. Russell to Oliver Russell as not central to the Bank 's policy for the 1980s , and reminded me that unless funds were forthcoming to camouflage my black hole of an overdraft I would n't be getting a new cheque-book even if I called myself Santa Claus . |
| 29 | Yorkshire , too , despite having many talented players and one great one in Hutton , were unable to reclaim their pre-war supremacy and Yardley 's best was to share the championship with Middlesex in 1949 . |
| 30 | But , in the most egregious error of judgement , the film , not content with human interest , ropes in aliens as well , arriving like a deus ex machina from the ocean bed , as though the characters were unable to face their darkest selves without prodding from a benign ET . |