Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Sharapour fell back it seemed for a moment as if he would get in the way of Mill Reef on the rails , but Lewis was alert to the perils of getting boxed in up the short Longchamp straight and pulled Mill Reef out to begin his challenge . |
| 2 | The question has to be asked , however , if this was due to the activities of the ECSC or if it was merely a consequence of the sustained economic boom which affected the whole of Western Europe . |
| 3 | To confirm that the increased cytotoxicity was due to the interactions between the Fc portion of IgG and the Fc receptor on the effector cells , Staphylococcus aureus protein A was added to the ADCC assay . |
| 4 | The reason that it became discredited on the scale and at the speed that it did was due to the efforts of the gentleman who introduced it , the right hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) . |
| 5 | According to the Independent on Sunday of Aug. 25 , the delay in taking this decision was due to the efforts of Gen. Varennikov , who had offered not to interfere in Ukrainian affairs if Ukraine accepted SCSE government . |
| 6 | I reckoned this was due to the attitudes of officials . |
| 7 | There was thereafter a not inconsiderable delay which the plaintiff explained was due to the delays in the correspondence with the Land Registry and also with the mortgagees ' solicitors . |
| 8 | A friend said at the time : ‘ The break up was due to the pressures of a bad season . |
| 9 | Those testing to these abuses often explained that their treatment was due to the intrigues of local government officials , who were accusing them of collaboration with the Contras . |
| 10 | To a large degree this was due to the examples of famous churches such as Christ Church , Westminster Bridge Road , to which we have referred before . |
| 11 | However , while North Circular-bound a few months back I was flipping through the channels on the radio trying find something decent when I came across what I later learned to be Hey from the recent ‘ Upfront ’ album by David Sanborn . |
| 12 | Looking through the rubble , Ruth saw the whole Castle was alive with the sparks of spears . |
| 13 | The court said that he was dishonest by the standards of ordinary decent people : " His conduct , judged objectively by what he has done , is dishonest . " |
| 14 | He was conciliatory towards the Lords over jurisdiction and towards the Crown over prerogative . |
| 15 | Despite the fact that Aethelburh was accompanied north when she married by Paulinus as her chaplain , and that Paulinus was subsequently consecrated bishop of York by Archbishop Justus in 625 or 626 ( HE 11 , 9 ) , Eadwine did not hasten to embrace the new faith and it needs to be emphasized that his eventual baptism was untypical among the Anglo-Saxons at this time . |
| 16 | As was usual with the rulers of the British empire , moral display served a dual purpose , being intended not only to improve native character but also to stimulate native loyalty . |
| 17 | All day I 'd felt calm , though aware that everything in Jamila 's life had changed ; and now , on the same day , if I was right about the looks on the two faces in the car with me , the same thing was going to happen to me . |
| 18 | Every scratch and whisper was loud like the crackles in the silent moments of a film . |
| 19 | This observed acidification was greatest in the lakes at high elevation and was of the same magnitude as the current precipitation acidity in the region , that is pH 4.2 ( or 63 u eq/l ) , although mountain-top locations are frequently enveloped in cloud and mist characterized by very low pH values ( e.g. pH 3.6 or 250 u eq/l ) . |
| 20 | Part of the deal with the management buy-out team was an option on ten per cent of the new company when it came to the market , no equivalent of which was possible under the terms of any of the outside bids . |
| 21 | Between close kin it was possible for the exchanges to be one-way over a longer term , one person a net ‘ giver ’ at a particular point in time because of a reasonable confidence that he or she could be a net ‘ receiver ’ at a later stage . |
| 22 | Now , with only the trees and the birds of the forest to see them , she was helpless against the waves of longing pounding through her like a restless ocean . |
| 23 | Although Darwin had turned in the right direction , he could do very little with mind and culture during his lifetime for the same reason that he was helpless before the mysteries of heredity : the basic information and modes of thought were lacking to produce the stable foundation which he correctly viewed as essential . |
| 24 | The bleak landscape would have depressed most people , but Manescu was used to the winters in Romania . |
| 25 | The city was used to the incursions of travelling tumblers , magicians , quack doctors , actors , and other undesirable elements , especially during the Fairs . |
| 26 | She was deaf to the arguments of those who told her that they would detract from the product , that they promoted only ugliness . |
| 27 | It involved the co-ordination of a number of government departments which was extensive by the standards of nineteenth-century administration . |
| 28 | Yet there was never any definite proof that Bacon was guilty of the crimes with which he was charged . |
| 29 | The most strident voice was that of the decentrists in the garden city/ new town tradition . |
| 30 | The fourth Saxon region was that of the Nordalbingians in Holstein , beyond the Elbe , bordering upon Denmark . |