Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adj] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So inviting was the gap created that the loose forward was able to score at the back of the posts , leaving Maskill with another simple kick . |
| 2 | The girl was quick to catch at the hint , drawing breath gratefully . |
| 3 | Proceedings were expected to be dominated by the question of a successor to Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , whose second five-year term as UN Secretary-General was due to expire at the end of 1991 . |
| 4 | If for any reason the plaintiff was unable to come at the time fixed for his hearing , he became ‘ non-suited ’ , and the man he hoped to sue could collect the deposit he had left with the clerk on starting the action . |
| 5 | Those who ignored the role of adaptation were able to flourish at the same time as those for whom adaptation was the primary consideration , because the range of problems that could attract research funding allowed both approaches to find suitable niches for themselves . |
| 6 | He however submitted that the magistrate was obliged to look at the whole of the evidence emanating from Price and that , since Price had retracted his Swedish evidence in so far as it implicated the applicant , that evidence must be regarded as worthless and wholly unreliable , and so incapable of forming the basis of a committal . |
| 7 | The higher order of passenger was able to arrive at the station shortly before the departure of the train and proceed directly to accommodation on it . |
| 8 | Just a few weeks before the zoo was due to close at the end of September , a meeting of the Zoological Society of London , which owns both Whipsnade Wild Animal Park and London Zoo , revealed that after struggling on despite falling attendances , the zoo 's finances have finally broken even . |
| 9 | With regard to UK source income it was accepted , because the income arose in the United Kingdom , that the trust was liable to tax at the basic rate and the additional 10 per cent rate ( p474(h) ) . |
| 10 | The etymological team of the Seventh Research Fleet was privileged to sit at the feet of two gentlemen of the Oeldrid Stance Academy . |
| 11 | First , black workers were recruited for precisely those jobs , usually poorly paid and involving unpleasant working conditions , which the indigenous white working class was able to reject at the time of economic expansion , thus preventing the development of bottlenecks in production and permitting higher levels of capital accumulation . |