Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun found out immediately before it was due to announce the new boxes that it would not be able to deliver four-processor TAB-packaged 50MHz SuperSparc modules in volumes by this summer . |
| 2 | Sun found out immediately before it was due to announce the new boxes that it would not be able to deliver four-processor TAB-packaged 50MHz SuperSparc modules in volumes by this summer . |
| 3 | The sea below was so clear that it was possible to enjoy the underwater antics of swimming guillemots , even from such a height . |
| 4 | By separating the glycerides from more readily available fats and assembling them in the required proportions it was possible to match the physical properties of cocoa butter . |
| 5 | On such a large piece it was possible to achieve the facial features and details of the clothing by gentle removal of material by holding the grinder and cutter to the work at many different angles carefully and in a safe manner . |
| 6 | Likewise it was possible to overcome the adverse features of slums and overcrowding , lack of open space , and the smoke , dirt , fog and noise of big cities . |
| 7 | Through astrology , Bacon believed , it was possible to investigate the great sects of human history : Jews , Chaldeans , Egyptians , Saracens , and Christians . |
| 8 | When a great political crisis arose , however , there was little to distinguish the political reactions of the Siberian from the Kursk peasantry . |
| 9 | The reason for the complaint was that given the even numbers in the class ( now that ‘ Daz ’ was in the corridor ! ) , someone now had to work with Brian Smart . |
| 10 | Reassurance was given that he was free to discuss the rival systems as long as the arguments were confined to mathematical astronomy . |
| 11 | Bonar Law was prepared to make the right noises — in 1913 at Manchester he called for a positive social policy in Disraelian lines for " the swing of the pendulum is not enough " , but he would give no more active support . |
| 12 | Mr Stephens was careful to read the short poems and finished up with one set not far from the place at which John was hired . |
| 13 | At the end of September , the prime minister held talks with Mr Poul Schlüter , the Danish premier , and apparently concluded from these that the way was clear to reintroduce the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill soon after Parliament returned from the summer recess . |
| 14 | MALTA said yesterday that it was willing to accept the two Libyans accused of the Lockerbie bombing for trial on the island if all parties agreed . |
| 15 | That Van Butchell was willing to pay the 100 guineas is interesting and suggests that there were no bounds to his eccentricities . |
| 16 | I WAS interested to see the All Blacks trial teams that were announced last week . |
| 17 | As Penelope mounted further to the third floor where she and the other lodger had their rooms , she was relieved to hear the limpid notes of a recorder playing ‘ Brother James 's Air ’ . |
| 18 | I WAS sad to read the scathing comments of Bristol cinemagoers about the movie 1492 : Conquest Of Paradise , starring Gerard Depardieu ( right ) . |
| 19 | It was easy to spot the big-city items that Signe had added to the furnished apartment . |
| 20 | In all this , it was easy to forget the fortuitous circumstances in which Law had actually become leader in 1911 . |
| 21 | It was hard to imagine the leggy beeches would some sixty years hence be tall majestic trees . |
| 22 | The 1944 Education Act , in theory , was supposed to widen the educational chances of the working classes through the provision of free secondary education for all . |
| 23 | In the election campaign , the Conservatives had made much of ‘ setting the people free ’ of the planners , and of making the nationalised industries more ‘ businesslike ’ and ‘ commercial ’ , but the reality of controls remained for some years , as indeed was inevitable given the physical limits of a national cake whose size was fixed in the short term . |
| 24 | People treat you differently , though I was glad to see the other riders reacted well . |
| 25 | The newly established British Medical Journal was quick to stress the general benefits to public morality if the legislation were imposed on the northern cities . |
| 26 | Lowe was quick to learn the various practices of the law profession , and decided upon conveyancing — transferring property from one person to another by purchase , lease or deed — as that branch of the law where his deafness was less of a handicap , and did so well that in the Michaelmas Term of 1829 , he took the prescribed oaths publicly in the Temple Hall and emerged as a Barrister of the Middle Temple — a most unprecedented event which created a sensation in the profession . |
| 27 | It was fascinating to watch the great rolls of white newsprint turn as the thin sheets moved into the press , round inky lead plates , through rollers and down the V-shaped folding machine , to be cut into proper size , folded , stacked sideways and passed into waiting hands . |
| 28 | Hence it was reluctant to take the unpopular measures deemed by some to be necessary to tackle Britain 's long-term problems . |
| 29 | Yet the Home Office was powerless to affect the sentencing decisions of the courts . |
| 30 | This was an uncached design and it was unable to reach the dizzy heights attained by its rivals — compare it with the Western Systems machine which had an identical Conner drive but was cached . |