Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practically every case the publishers were prepared to supply me with information which was not generally made public . |
| 2 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 3 | It was to stop this that amateurs within the FA , who disliked professionalism in principle , were willing to accept it in practice . |
| 4 | ‘ You were supposed to get us into town today to get our benefits , but you blew it . ’ |
| 5 | Senior American officials were quick to dismiss it as propaganda which would not even warrant a formal reply since it had been issued through Tass . |
| 6 | While some were happy to espouse them without question , others were more critical , the more so because of the Authority 's failure to consult any but a small number of heads about their content . |
| 7 | We were happy to take him on board . |
| 8 | The key leaders of NICRA arrived late , after the march had already started ; if they had any plans for preventing a clash with the police , they were unable to put them into operation . |
| 9 | The 900 Belgian troops stationed in Kismayu were unable to stop them for fear of hitting the civilians . |
| 10 | It was not long before the South Metropolitan Company 's omnibus proposals came up again and ten Daimler double deck buses were ordered in 1913 , but Daimler were unable to complete them on time and ten L.G.O.C 's ‘ B ’ type chassis with Brush bodies were substituted in July . |
| 11 | Oisin said , very courteously , ‘ Since our own Chroniclers and our Poets and Story Tellers were unable to follow us into exile , it is we who should be grateful to you for creating an account of what is happening . ’ |
| 12 | Seeing this , the Egyptian soldiers were unable to attack them in case they accidentally injured or killed one of these sacred animals . |
| 13 | Under these circumstances we were obliged to reach it at night , in a small open boat crewed by two very anxious and expensive local fishermen . |
| 14 | However , in Brimelow v. Casson , persuasion of theatre proprietors by a theatrical performers ' protection society to break their contracts with a theatrical manager was justified on the grounds that the wage paid by the manager to chorus girls was so low that they were obliged to supplement it by resort to prostitution . |
| 15 | Our billetors were obliged to provide us with breakfast , which might be taken about 7.30 ( or 10.30 if we had been on night duty ) , and one other meal which had also to be a moveable feast . |
| 16 | This is why Jesus could forgive a woman caught in adultery , when the legalists were ready to stone her to death . |
| 17 | The finished clothes were delivered to the hotel on her last morning in Paris only an hour before Bob Storrington was due to collect her for lunch . |
| 18 | The man was a murderer , and the judge was right to condemn him to death . |
| 19 | It was odd to find him in charge of such a low-level enterprise as the Vadinamian protection racket . |
| 20 | The script kept sending out these little signals ( 'It 's only when there 's land around that sea travel becomes really interesting' ) but it was possible to take them as evidence not of exhaustion but of apprehension about the project . |
| 21 | Yet women , of my generation were the first to have the chance to refuse burdens that just could n't be borne , to understand that it was possible to refuse them without censure , to realise that if you still could n't have everything , you could at least make some choices about what you could have . |
| 22 | Once Newton 's physics had been constituted , it was possible to apply it in detail to astronomy . |
| 23 | She could almost hear him making the effort to be cheerful , as if he was afraid to disappoint her in case she decided not to ring him again . |
| 24 | The hand was hot , the skin dry and the slender fingers lay in her palm like splinters of fine porcelain — she was afraid to squeeze them for fear they might snap . |
| 25 | Our new landlady made it clear that she was delighted to accept us in preference to yet more evacuee children . |
| 26 | She was a silk-and-satin girl ; it was hard to imagine her in denim and cotton . |
| 27 | Simon was supposed to take me for lunch an hour ago , ’ she said , hearing herself rattle on , yet unable to stop , ‘ but he seems to have forgotten and I 'm hungry and — ’ |
| 28 | No , I mean he rang , I was supposed to ring him at home though . |
| 29 | Purvis had even stood up , maybe in the expectation of aggro , so I was glad to disappoint him by greeting Lewis like a soul brother and flashing fifty quid at him . |
| 30 | Jesus had probably been told about Zacchaeus and so was able to call him by name . |