Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were used to taking the young seriously , and they were right , I see now : everyone has to begin somewhere . |
| 2 | Nor is it unlikely that some of them , or others , were interested in taking the Danish throne , and that the later stories about the killing of Haldanus and the expulsion of Harald reflect this , if in a distorted form . |
| 3 | Barnes said Munich , Dortmund , Berlin and Stuttgart were interested in staging the new cup tournament . |
| 4 | International fame was achieved after he joined the Marlborough Gallery in 1958 who were instrumental in organising the first retrospective at the Tate in 1962 , to be followed by major shows at the Grand Palais , Paris , in 1971 and the Tate in 1985 . |
| 5 | In fact , evidence indicates that former principals of Sotheby 's acquired ownership interests in the treasure as early as 1980 — information Sotheby 's claims it first learned in this suit — and that these individuals were instrumental in securing the Lebanese export licenses for the treasure , which were allegedly forged ’ . |
| 6 | When the movement to spread the benefits of restraint through the rest of the city gathered pace in the 1970s , the Germans were fortunate in having the leading exponents of these principles living next door to them in the Netherlands . |
| 7 | It was also shown that the pedagogical perspectives held by mainstream mathematical educators , broadly ‘ psychometric ’ , were such as to legitimate the broad outlines of a curriculum differentiated by ‘ ability ’ ( but not so clearly its differentiation by sex ) . |
| 8 | Before the Act the courts would not interfere with any decision by a local authority relating to a child in its care under statutory authority unless the local authority had itself brought the matter before the court , or the facts were such as to entitle the local authority 's decision to be challenged by way of judicial review : A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 , 373 , per Lord Wilberforce . |
| 9 | 1.7 , a point of some significance in the context of this essay , and one to which I shall return later ) , or take them to the Temple for the ritual redemption of the first-born ( idem ) ; they were exempt from making the thrice-yearly pilgrimage to Jerusalem at the feasts of Passover , Pentecost and Tabernacles ( Hag . |
| 10 | Also we were lucky in finding the actual front of the rampart in front of the wall . |
| 11 | He took the view that mass searches were fine for discovering the hidden body of a murdered child , or even a murder weapon like a knife , gun or bludgeon . |
| 12 | The waKara were not exceptional in combining the ownership of livestock with crop production , but they were exceptional in integrating the two . |
| 13 | Our major problem was that the authorities were late in finalising the small print . |
| 14 | The This Week programme made with Friends of the Earth centres on MPL , but a report claims many other companies were involved in defrauding the Ghanaian economy of a total of £30m by taking advantage of aid opportunities in its timber industry . |
| 15 | ‘ All our staff were involved in preparing the Royal lunch . |
| 16 | Gastric electrical control activity detected by the non-invasive technique of surface electrogastrography was investigated in 11 children ( 0.1–16 years ) with proven chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction ( four with known disease of the enteric nerves , three with disease of smooth muscle cells , and four without defined pathology ) , to determine whether abnormalities were present and whether these were useful in detecting the underlying pathology . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , they were one of the more important points of contact , since they were responsible for determining the political complexion of the House of Commons . |
| 18 | For the first time Stoddard Mercia were responsible for creating the complete interior scheme including furniture , light fittings and wallpaper . |
| 19 | Extremists , therefore , were responsible for diverting the working class from allegiance to common interest , to the path of class conflict : |
| 20 | Petwood was built of all the very best materials and the Maple craftsmen were responsible for carving the lovely oak staircase and interior panellings . |
| 21 | Some of the RPF 's leaders were uneasy about risking the new movement 's reputation by contesting these elections , but de Gaulle , perhaps trying to make up for the lost opportunities of 1945 and 1946 , was adamant that the Rassemblement should make an all-out effort to capture as much popular support as possible . |
| 22 | Consultancies were preoccupied with learning the commercial disciplines of planning and marketing to help qualify public relations as an acceptable modem commercial tool which could help earn profits . |
| 23 | The main difference between the sociobiologists and their ethological predecessors is that , whereas the latter were preoccupied with demonstrating the adaptive value of certain kinds of signalling behaviour in non-human animals , the former are much more dogmatic about the actual evolutionary mechanisms which have brought these ( and many other ) behavioural adaptations into existence . |
| 24 | The Chamber and its attendant offices were capable of managing the traditional revenues of the Crown . |
| 25 | Singer undertook this study partly as a protest against the lowly status of the Anglo-Jewish preacher , and partly to demonstrate that Anglo-Jewish scholars were capable of securing the rabbinical qualification . |
| 26 | Other Stukas were successful in sinking the Panama-registered freighter ‘ Margit ’ , which was caught in harbour . |
| 27 | The bishops were successful in urging the Irish party to accept the church 's programme for Irish education as a whole . |
| 28 | During the late forties Anglo-Iranian had some concessions to growing Iranian anger but they were far from meeting the popular demands . |
| 29 | ‘ The Finnish bourgeoisie , like the Ukrainian , were unanimous in preferring the violent rule of Germany to national freedom , if the latter should be bound up with Bolshevism . ’ |
| 30 | In Germany just after the First World War , for example , working class organisations were so far removed from both the objective interests of the class and the concern of its members that they were incapable of seizing the revolutionary opportunities open to them . |