Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [det] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the beginning of December , it was possible to ski all the way down to the Coire Cas carpark . |
| 2 | It was possible to run all the winter services by railcoach , although this did not happen until the Marton route was modernised in post-war years . |
| 3 | Until about nine months ago it was normal to heap all the blame on his Interior Secretary , James Wan , a born-again Christian who has stuck to the letter of Genesis in his attempts to have the Earth subdued . |
| 4 | The archive was thus virtually unusable since it was impossible to locate all the material on any given topic . |
| 5 | I took over a hundred members to the rally in Hyde Park , erm two thirds of my workforce , and it was magnificent to see all the trade unionists there , especially the G M B banners . |
| 6 | three or four weeks ago before Alan was able to vet all the information . |
| 7 | Connors was busy emptying all the ketchup bottles over his eggs . |
| 8 | But it was enough to make all the garden 's inhabitants drowsy , Caroline thought , yawning . |
| 9 | This provided a volume of 9,000 cubic inches of water at a pressure of 700 pounds per square inch , which was sufficient to work all the machinery during one operation of the lift . |