Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day her mother was due to put her in an institution Ursula Findlay , a nurse from Gloucestershire visited the ward . |
| 2 | ‘ Harry said he was due to meet someone in the boathouse , so we went over there . ’ |
| 3 | So they progressed back again , Sir George clutching the letters , Maud the opened cocoon of linen and silk , and Roland the three dolls , out of some vague fancy that it was cruel to leave them in the dark . |
| 4 | Hooker replied that it was right to admit them to the Church 's Communion service , which , when he wrote , they were indeed obliged to attend by law . |
| 5 | I think it would have been perhaps better if you , somehow er , maybe er I du n no , you could erm , nothing to do with you so you ri you 're not in a position to be able to move them erm but if it was possible to put them in a , a different situation I think would have made a more interesting picture . |
| 6 | As to whether change is necessary or not one can not help pay some regard of that phenomenon of the post war world , Japan : If time travel was a fact and it was possible to transport someone from the middle of the social scale of Victorian Britain to the present time , he would think a revolution had taken place ; but the basic ground rules of social life and commerce would shortly become comprehensible to him . |
| 7 | With the sun below the horizon it was only by a perceptible lightening of the sky in that direction that it was possible to place themselves in the great ocean of trees . |
| 8 | Throughout Iraq and even in neighbouring Kuwait , it was possible to share something of the flavour of the front line through the early evening transmissions of Suwar min al-maarakah ( pictures from the battle ) , which followed the news and which , in addition to depicting the bombardment of distant Iranian positions by Iraqi artillery , contributed some human interest with groups of soldiers , sometimes regulars , sometimes from the People 's Army , having a brew-up in some operational area , waving to the camera and generally putting on a show . |
| 9 | He was helpless to defend himself against the terrible gleaming weapon in the fist of the menacing black figure looming over him . |
| 10 | The knowledge that he was helpless to do anything about the forthcoming wedding made things no easier for Seb , and proof that the end of the gipsies ’ way of life in Wychwood was near at hand . |
| 11 | For there was little to differentiate them in the policies which they espoused during the campaign . |
| 12 | And I was sorry to miss you at the Keppels 's thrash ; I hope that you are recovered ? |
| 13 | With deep blue eyes and springy fair hair , the athletic Dane would be the answer to many a maiden 's prayer , yet while Ashley was grateful to have him as a friend and business associate she had no inclination for their relationship to deepen . |
| 14 | He was prepared to swear it on the Book . |
| 15 | Anyone who was prepared to submit himself to a debtors ' prison for a token period could apply from The Fleet or the Marshalsea for the help of the Insolvent Debtors Court . |
| 16 | Henry 's anti-papalism was based on the belief that the pope had wrongfully usurped the spiritual and temporal power which had traditionally belonged to the kings of England , and while he therefore rejected the pope 's claim to jurisdiction in England , he was prepared to regard him as the rightful Bishop of Rome . |
| 17 | Solly was prepared to try it in the days when Napes Needles was still ‘ a rattling good ‘ un ’ and you took photos of your mates with plates in a Thornton-Pickard Folding ruby camera . |
| 18 | I hunted buffalo in the swamps at Bilen ; it was exciting following them through the dense reed beds . |
| 19 | Mr Attlee was careful to position himself with the majority view in Cabinet . |
| 20 | Prisoners offered the choice very rarely preferred death to the colonies but , because they were essentially treated in the same way as indentured servants , they could only go to America if a merchant was willing to take them on the basis of a calculation that he could sell their services at the other end . |
| 21 | Signor Valenti was willing to accept him as a son-in-law . |
| 22 | Charlie should have known the shysters when he saw them — but too often he was willing to identify himself with the craw-thumping brigade , allowing them to subvert his better , progressive instincts . |
| 23 | Breeze had already heard the family mentioned the day before , at the Vicarage , and was interested to see them in the flesh . |
| 24 | Silva , 25 , was delighted to find himself with a gallery of waiters and farm-workers from Jersey 's 3,000-strong Portuguese community . |
| 25 | Fortunately for the young refugees , there was much to divert them from the risk they were taking . |
| 26 | In the early stages he was content to keep her towards the rear of the field as Teleprompter — also attempting a mile and a half for the first time — took his accustomed role of front-runner . |
| 27 | Experimental surgery on his legs when he was 10 left him in a wheelchair , yet in 1988 he climbed Kala Patar in the Himalayas over 18,000 feet in the shade of Everest . |
| 28 | The police questioned the three ‘ crew ’ , who were far too well trained to give anything away , and although forensic samples were taken from the Ouvéa it was impossible to examine them on the spot . |
| 29 | It was impossible to extend it to the front of the Villa without blasting the cliffs and destroying exquisite country , but quite possible to reach the gates at the rear of the park . |
| 30 | Energy was directed mainly to the primary sector , where , until recently , it was impossible to have anything but a church-sponsored school if it was to be funded by the state . |