Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moving from fixed-term to redeemable stock was necessary to secure lower interest rates , and such stock predominated in iss-ues after 1714 . |
| 2 | In a divorce case , a Dutchwoman was unable to prove actual service of process on her husband in Great Britain , so by virtue of Article 15(1) judgment could not be given in the matter ; the court , however , was prepared to give judgment in default under Article 15(2) , the Netherlands having made the necessary declaration , once the petitioner could satisfy it as to the items listed in that provision . |
| 3 | This time the US State Department was able to exercise more control over policy-making and so avert a diplomatic crisis . |
| 4 | The party cell was afraid to have open meetings mainly because it feared criticism from what it called the ‘ kulaks ' . |
| 5 | He argued that the existing advanced gas-cooled reactor ( AGR ) programme was unlikely to offer much scope for overseas sales because of its high construction costs . |
| 6 | The research was concerned to examine joint finance and joint planning following the restructuring of the NHS in 1982 and the ‘ community care circular ’ of 1983 . |
| 7 | And in textiles , Kenya 's experience shows that cheap and plentiful labour was insufficient to overcome increased import quotas and Voluntary Export Restrains , or to compete against new , still cheaper competitors . |
| 8 | The object of the Federation was nothing less than the destruction of his organisation by any means at its disposal and with whatever violence was necessary to achieve that end . |
| 9 | So devastated were they when she announced that the term was due to end last week for a long Easter break that they begged her to let them continue . |
| 10 | If the DEA was unable to organise rapid growth in conjunction with a stable balance of payments , then one of the objectives had to give , and in 1966 it was the growth target which was abandoned . |
| 11 | As far as they were concerned , and like most Arab players in the narcotics game , the DEA was welcome to play one side off against another , so long as they could watch safely from the sidelines . |
| 12 | Section 17(3) of the Act permits secondary action if ( a ) the purpose or principal purpose of the secondary action was directly to prevent or disrupt the supply during the dispute of goods or services between an employer who is a party to the dispute ( here the ship owners ) and the employer under the contract of employment to which the secondary action relates ( here the port authorities ) ; and ( b ) the secondary action was likely to achieve that purpose . |
| 13 | But in 1978 , the Court of Appeal had decided , in ‘ The Camilla M ‘ , where the facts were similar to those in NWL , that the presence of an ‘ extraneous motive ’ for trade union action was sufficient to prevent that action being a ‘ trade dispute ’ . |
| 14 | Progressive rock was OVER-CONCEPTUAL made risible attempts to sum up all the riddles of existence on a single ( or triple ) LP , extended these pompous didactic ambitions on to the stage with all manner of theatrical set pieces . |
| 15 | Even a Board of Guardians so unusually influenced by Labour as that of Poplar was reluctant to pay out-door relief to the unemployed . |
| 16 | A statement from Buckingham Palace said the Queen was content to drop legal proceedings following a front-page offer in the newspaper . |
| 17 | Would I abort if my child was likely to have some kind of deformity ? |
| 18 | Despite this progress the IAEA team was unable to obtain full details of the Iraqi nuclear weapons programme and thus to assess any potential for its revival . |
| 19 | Breeze was glad to reach this haven of refuge , for she had an uneasy conviction that there were holes in the heels of both her stockings . |
| 20 | State Premier Carmen Lawrence , who had resisted such a move since taking office at the beginning of 1990 [ see p. 37250 ] , finally conceded that an inquiry similar to the Fitzgerald inquiry was necessary to restore public confidence in the electoral system . |
| 21 | But I can see why the instigator of this new tax was reluctant to have higher bands . |
| 22 | The Collector was careful to embrace this conviction in a moderate manner , lest he be tipped out of the chair in which he was no longer sitting . |
| 23 | In considering tenders the contract-awarding body was obliged to treat all offers equally — there should be no discrimination between home and foreign bids . |
| 24 | If they 'd not intervened er then indeed the consequences would certainly have been a communist victory so the intervention was necessary to maintain that policy position . |
| 25 | A Leicester youth justice worker says the team has a heavy workload — on one day last month the youth court was due to hear 38 cases . |
| 26 | Given the appellant 's failure to comply with the requirements of the hostel regime , the court was entitled to leave that alternative out of account and assess the dangerousness of the appellant on the basis of his offences and reluctance to participate in treatment . |
| 27 | It was previously thought that severance , where no shares are agreed , operated to create a tenancy in common in equal shares ( see Megarry and Wade , Real Property 5th edn , Stevens , 1984 , p430 and R v Porter [ 1990 ] 1 WLR 1260 where the Court of Appeal held that in a joint venture , in the absence of any evidence , the Court was entitled to assume equal sharing ) . |
| 28 | Ball was able to do some training at Roker Park yesterday , but the game might be a little too soon for him . |
| 29 | Chartier was reluctant to place all responsibility for this disaster upon the nobility alone . |
| 30 | In the seven years from 1540 to 1547 these sources brought in about £140,000 per annum and the King was able to pile one impost on another without the taxpayers showing any sign of wilting . |