Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adj] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also throughout this period some members of the House of Commons , though their numbers steadily decreased , owed their election to the influence which the Treasury and Admiralty were able to exert over certain constituencies . |
| 2 | ‘ Martin Edwards then called and suggested that his club were prepared to go very high for Hirst and that other players could be involved if we were interested . |
| 3 | The President was able to attend only one of these , which was actually better than three other committee members who attended no meetings . |
| 4 | The VEC relented but , with such short notice , the DUC was able to obtain only one speaker , Dr Robert Blackith , a zoologist from Trinity College , Dublin who was at that stage a veteran anti-nuclear speaker and campaigner . |
| 5 | But even here the administration was careful to build up formal channels of access that it could control and that would in turn support the regime , as in the case of traditional leadership , which was recruited as a legitimizing instrument of government in the localities . |
| 6 | Although official records might be expected to give an accurate picture of changes in the range and scale of provision , a considerable amount of work was necessary to establish even this basic framework . |
| 7 | Each mill was likely to require around 4 million bricks , 2 acres of glass and 2,200 tons of iron and steel . |
| 8 | The so-called Hungry Thirties when social deprivation was rampant produced only three British world champions — exactly the same as the ‘ affluent society ’ decade of 1952-1962 . |
| 9 | It was not only food that was running short ; the Collector was shocked to see how little powder and shot remained the mine , the fougasses , and the firing of chain shot to clear the foliage had seriously depleted what he had considered an ample provision of powder ; if used sparingly it might last for two weeks , but the shot was almost exhausted . |
| 10 | The Supreme Court was due to consider more comprehensive anti-abortion laws in Guam and Pennsylvania later in the year . |
| 11 | The Cougar mould was last used about 8 years ago and is past its best ; he suggests the Mirage is similar to the Cougar . |
| 12 | The field-worker was able to spend as much time in the field as the principal investigator thought necessary , and no restrictions were placed on her going out on patrol , travelling in vehicles , or going to incidents of routine police duty . |
| 13 | The Brut blames the Despensers for this measure , but the king was able to raise almost 7,000 men who served for four weeks at their vills ' expense . |
| 14 | Quotes of £37 17s 8d. for the bike shed and £145 15s 0d. for a veranda extension were both thought too expensive , but as the bike shed was Minuted as being urgently needed , the next meeting ( three months later ) appointed a sub-committee to consider it with the constraint not to spend more than £15 ! |
| 15 | The captain and the chief and second mates received cargo allotments of value , but officers of junior rank were unlikely to make very substantial profits , even if they were not forced to share their allocation of cargo space with the commander in order to obtain a place at all . |
| 16 | Thus the jeweller was free to use more efficient methods , replicating designs with a freer hand in ornament variation . |
| 17 | Together , nevertheless , these three men indicate that each district was apt to throw up one great entrepreneur at a time who stood head and shoulders above his contemporaries and competitors . |
| 18 | It might seem that so artificial a superiority was certain to prove as transient as the hegemonies that it had replaced , although those in whose hands power lay were for the most part undaunted by the new challenges to Britain 's position that they sensed … |
| 19 | In future economic efficiency was likely to assume as much importance as the technical side . |
| 20 | Revelations in February 1986 that the government was prepared to sell off British Leyland and Austin-Rover to American-owned companies provoked opposition from Conservative MPs in the affected constituencies which killed the proposals . |
| 21 | Previously the Government was prepared to pay only 50 per cent in Less Favoured Areas and 40 per cent outwith them . |
| 22 | Only three of the housing departments that provided information were able to state how many households on their waiting or transfer list required wheelchair or mobility adapted housing , and only two of these were able to break this information down by bedroom size . |
| 23 | Last year CAUSE were able to assist nearly 100 families thanks to your generosity . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , the Department of Employment was unable to provide more recent statistics on the grounds that they would be too costly to collate . |
| 25 | With reference to the former , Congress was unlikely to pour out vast sums of money for Korea . |
| 26 | The government would end its support for the programme , amounting to some £13 million annually , in March 1993 because a " fast-breeder reactor was unlikely to become commercially viable until 2030 at the very earliest " , he told the House of Commons . |
| 27 | Working with a video camera capable of converting an image into digital form , a computer and a specially designed software programme , the trio were able to create photographically convincing composite portraits . |
| 28 | The divergence of American English from British English was first noticed about 1750 . |
| 29 | Hewlett-Packard officials say they were pleasantly surprised at Sun Microsystems Inc 's Tsunami and SunDragon pricing , as the company was prepared to go even lower on retail price for its new PA RISC 7100-based 700 systems — see page three . |
| 30 | The technique was first patented early this century in Britain , but not developed until 1976 when the idea caught the attention of James Kelly , professor of engineering at the University of California , Berkeley . |