Example sentences of "it was [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it was unsuccessful on the correct interpretation of the relevant statute , the Police Act 1964 . |
| 2 | The bill was a shafted weapon with a crescent-shaped blade sharpened on the inside ; it was current from the ninth century onwards in various forms and , like the fork , had an agricultural origin as an improvised weapon which gradually became specialised in its own right . |
| 3 | It was Labour in the 1970s but went Tory in 1979 and Dr Brian Mawhinney , the Northern Ireland Minister , held it with a 9,784 majority in 1987 . |
| 4 | They assumed that it was legal before the third month , and only illegal when procured . |
| 5 | They assumed it was legal before the third month [ before quickening ] , and only outside the law when procured by another person ’ . |
| 6 | It was black in the empty space far between stars and we could n't see anything . |
| 7 | He reckoned that it was better for the new Iranian prime minister , Shapour Bakhtiar , that the Shah stayed in Muslim country and he thought that Hasans influence would help " keep Khomeini under control " |
| 8 | Certainly it was untouched by the Anglican church , which had no truck with the feast of Corpus Christi ( from which its words come ) or the doctrine of transubstantiation , and in any case sanctioned only English-texted music . |
| 9 | It was famous as the winning post of boat races from Westminster Bridge . |
| 10 | You go through all sorts of situations and circumstances but there is a peace and an equilibrium it was n't just on the surface , it was right to the very depths of his being the whole being . |
| 11 | It is therefore useful to set out in some detail the position as it was prior to the 1980 Local Government , Planning and Land Act . |
| 12 | America is not the same old anything it was prior to the 1988 leadership of Jesse Jackson . |
| 13 | Similarly , it was higher during the early centuries of the Roman republic than in the later Empire period , and while it was low during the turbulence of the early Middle Ages , it reached a peak in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when the importance of older people was enhanced by their ability to survive the plagues of the era . |
| 14 | While it was low in ancient Greece , it was higher in the Hellenistic world . |
| 15 | Although the birth-rate fluctuated from time to time during the century — for example , it was low in the inter-war years and high in the immediate post-Second World War years — the proportion of survivors at each age , and especially among the young , increased throughout the period . |
| 16 | He ‘ felt a surge of patriotic emotion within him ’ but almost at once he ‘ incontinently began to analyse his wave of emotion and to wonder how much of it was due to the romantic beauty of his surroundings ’ . |
| 17 | It was due to the happy conjuncture of two facts , the rapid advance of a liberal and ‘ progressive ’ bourgeoisie and the absence of revolution . |
| 18 | Athelstan concluded it was due to the large empty wine bowl in front of Sir John but Cranston , winking and burping , staunchly kept his hidden resolve not to vex Athelstan further with his own worries and anxieties . |
| 19 | Two seconds after each sequence , a probe consonant appeared and subjects judged if it was present in the previous sequence . |
| 20 | From Iran turquoise was carried as far afield as west Caucasia , where it occurred in the Maikop barrow in the Kuban , and north Mesopotamia , where it was present in the same tomb at Tepe Gawra as lapis lazuli . |
| 21 | The United Kingdom , in its observations on the preliminary draft , expressed the hope that the Convention would not apply at all in cases in which the address of the person on whom documents were to be served was unknown ; it was unhappy about the possible effect of what was to become Article 15 in such cases and more generally felt that the provisions of the Convention were not apt where the address was unknown . |
| 22 | This meant it was available for the first two years only in London and the South-East and to people who bothered to fit a new aerial . |
| 23 | It was symbolic of the whole thing . |
| 24 | By the half-way stage it was apparent to the dimmest Danuese that it was a communications antenna . |
| 25 | It was apparent in the 1980s that , to provide a complete service to multinational clients , it would be important to match their international spread with a network of offices . |
| 26 | As part of the public sector it was subject to the usual Treasury controls on investment and borrowing , but it was also restricted in another way . |
| 27 | The history of conflict between the peoples of this region over the centuries was interpenetrated by episodes in which it was subject to the imperial development of Rome , Macedon , Byzantium and the various peoples that streamed out of Central Asia into Persia and beyond . |
| 28 | Although South Dakota carried little electoral weight , either nationally or in terms of its proportion of delegates sent to the nominating convention , it had considerable significance for the Democratic contest in that it was adjacent to the native states of both Harkin and Kerrey , each of whom needed a good showing after their disappointing results in New Hampshire . |
| 29 | Team manager John Birch ( who shortly afterwards rocked the county by resigning , a few days after signing a new three-year contract ) explained : ‘ I have always felt that it was contrary to the best interests of a professional game to operate with a mainly semi-professional staff . |
| 30 | While his father was still alive , the Prince Regent had married secretly a Roman Catholic widow , Maria Fitzherbert , but as it was without his father 's consent , it was contrary to the Royal Marriage Act of 1772 , so in 1795 , he married his cousin , Caroline of Brunswick , and a daughter was born , Princess Charlotte , but George IV and Caroline grew to loathe one another , so from 1796 they lived apart . |