Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was due to go up to the Blue Mountains that morning and she started having pains , she said . |
| 2 | The former James Bond star got stagefright only weeks before the curtain was due to go up on the original West End show and made a shock exit . |
| 3 | Nigger told him he was due to start back on the tugs on the following Monday . |
| 4 | The trial of Sir Joh himself was due to begin later in the year . |
| 5 | In the meantime , work was proceeding on the Croydon — Sutton line and the time limit specified in the Act was due to run out by the end of the year . |
| 6 | At first it was pleasant to lie back on the straw mattress and relax . |
| 7 | To obscure more recent failure , it was possible to dip back into the time when the championship-winning sides flowed . |
| 8 | In fact , however , the Council 's composition was not random , as two kinds of evidence show : evidence for the high social class of individual members , and evidence that it was possible to get on to the Council in a given year if you wanted to . |
| 9 | It was possible to get on to the roof by the window and climb up the slope to the wall and the projecting archway . |
| 10 | The servants would know whether it was possible to get back down the valley . |
| 11 | It was possible to lend overnight to the traditional market and in theory at short term through overdrafts . |
| 12 | Up until the introduction of the Macintosh SE and II systems there was little getting away from the fact that the two systems were fundamentally incompatible . |
| 13 | The seminal work of such type was that carried out by the Italian psychiatrist , Lombroso , who set out to demonstrate the pathological nature of genius , quoting examples as varied as Julius Caesar , Mohammed , Newton , Rousseau , and Schopenhauer . |
| 14 | At Limoges the Young King was free to go over to the attack . |
| 15 | Her grandfather 's insistence that she was free to go out into the world now and take a course of training was so much nonsense . |
| 16 | Back in the Company 's suite after debriefing — ‘ You 've proved , ’ said Nils without praise — Jezrael was free to go out on the town . |
| 17 | I had said that her view was unreasonable and Syl was free to go out in the evening as he wished . |
| 18 | She brushed her skirts down over his hand so that it was free to move upwards beneath the pleated folds . |
| 19 | She was free to wander all over the estate and Mitch kept with her , his collection of shots growing . |
| 20 | However , she was prepared to go along with the advisory teacher 's point of view in the sessions and reassured herself concerning her own fears by using whole-class lessons to reinforce what she felt pupils should have discovered . |
| 21 | Now he was prepared to live up to the role . |
| 22 | The ANC 's first warning that it was prepared to pull out of the CODESA talks came on June 21 , when the organization 's president , Nelson Mandela , declared that the negotiations process was " in tatters " . |
| 23 | For months SCO has resisted adopting SVR4 even though SCO co-founder Doug Michels recently told Unigram.X he had finally ‘ bitten the ideological bullet ’ and was prepared to step out on the SVR4 road provided it could get the right terms ( UX No 398 ) . |
| 24 | It was exciting to travel up on the night train and to find Granny waiting beside the fire in the hall , as exhilarated by the festivities as any of her grandchildren . |
| 25 | Course it 's worth bothering because a lot of young men that was unemployed come down to the school where I 'm the caretaker and they said , we know that you 're running short is there any chance of getting in on the scene ? |
| 26 | While West Germany , for example , was willing to go along with the proposal ( but only if there was a joint system of ECSC subsidy financing ) , the net importers of coal within the Six — France , Italy and the Netherlands — were totally hostile to the notion of national contributions to a joint financing policy . |
| 27 | One joke had a candidate for the Waffen-SS being asked at the muster whether he was willing to sign on for the duration of the war ; to which , he replied : ‘ No , at first only for twelve years . ’ |
| 28 | If a firm is operating in a good , competitive market then , notwithstanding the problems associated with accounting measurements , profit does give an indication of how well it produced goods : the market was willing to pay more for the finished goods than it cost the firm to produce them , if the firm made a profit . |
| 29 | But she did , and was another won over by the famous charm . |
| 30 | Major Match was favourite to follow up in the latest running of the Kempton contest , but had a rough time , getting knocked around before trailing in last behind Far Senior . |