Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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1 | FIONA was aghast at the Chancellor 's plan to tax fuel and power in the home . |
2 | Only on one unit was there evidence of good buildings and this was due to the farmer 's previous experience in the building trade . |
3 | This delay relative to Europe was due to the USA 's later economic development and lack of colonial possessions . |
4 | Much of this increase was due to the government 's privatization programme , which encouraged small investors to buy shares in companies such as British Telecom and British Gas . |
5 | In such a case , it is up to the complainant to show that the damage or injury was due to the manufacturer 's negligence . |
6 | He supposed it was due to the railways ' air of resentful obsolescence , combined with their persistent insights into what was so often ignored : abandoned pastures , neglected buildings , all that was overgrown and outmoded , all that was best forgotten . |
7 | Chief executive Neil Arnold said the shortfall in profits was due to the Co-op 's ambitious expansion plans last year . |
8 | So , too , in Ponting v. Noakes , the plaintiff 's horse reached over the defendant 's boundary , nibbled some poisonous tree there and died accordingly , and it was held that the plaintiff could recover nothing , for the damage was due to the horse 's own intrusion and , alternatively , there had been no escape of the vegetation . |
9 | With the first stirrings of Jagger 's plans to out-Woodstock Woodstock at California 's Altamont race track , the London magazine office was low on the singer 's list of priorities . |
10 | Mutual cooperation was undesirable from the generals ' point of view , because it was n't helping them to win the war . |
11 | Yet many of the teachers we interviewed , far from being unaware of this risk , perceived only too clearly that it was inherent to the LEA 's preferred combination of group work and multiple curriculum focus teaching . |
12 | When at last he was private in the abbot 's parlour with Radulfus , Prior Robert , Herluin , and Brother Cadfael , whose presence Tutilo himself had requested , he launched upon his story baldly enough . |
13 | let me just get back that was abhorrent as a word w has already been used and er should be used again by what you said , you saw s somebody being raped by two soldiers . |
14 | As a bright and promising student of Armchair Theatre Sydney Newman felt Verity Lambert was right for the Producer 's post , in spite of her distinct lack of years , being only twenty-seven at the time of her appointment . |
15 | The president 's later budgets were substantially rewritten ; he was obliged to accept a succession of tax increases ; the legislature was unreceptive to the president 's agenda of social issues , ie school bussing , abortion and prayer in public schools . |
16 | Yet Labour had a double advantage with the electors : its leaders had served with complete loyalty in the coalition , and had thereby secured valuable experience of government , mostly , to be sure , on the home front ; but the party in Parliament had also by its single rebellion in 1943 made it clear to all that it was dissatisfied with the coalition 's progress towards social reform . |
17 | Moreover , an important client of the plaintiff told the defendant that he was dissatisfied with the plaintiff 's conduct of his affairs . |
18 | Dexter was used to the superintendent 's mannerisms but after a second or two , Blanche caught Jane Pargeter 's look of puzzlement , and the detective smiled apologetically . |
19 | Shirley Robertson has taken the slot in the Europe dinghy while Penny Way was pre-selected for the woman 's Lechner sailboard . |
20 | There was much hue and cry among the typesetting and printing community about the quality of this new-fangled technology but the one element that was retained was that of the compositor 's skill . |
21 | The summons on which he made the order was merely a summons which asked for directions and the form in which his order was couched was that of an order nisi which , subject to the time limits laid down in the order , gave an unqualified liberty to apply . |
22 | The opposition of the Council of Castile , as long as it existed , was consistent : the old constitution , and with it the powers of the Council , was unalterable without the king 's consent . |
23 | It was clear from the sentencer 's observations that he had given careful consideration to these matters . |
24 | It was clear from the governor 's demeanour that his invitation did not extend beyond the Americans , and the elderly mandarin remained standing apart with his son and his son 's wife . |
25 | " I think , " he said much later in his apartment overlooking the Mediterranean in France , " that this was another of the West 's attempt to undermine the Shah . |
26 | Karsavina duly mounted Valse Fantaisie for the RAD Production Club , but it was another of the Sadler 's Wells dancers , Eric Hyrst , who partnered Brae in it . |
27 | The Snake Goddess was another of the Minoans ' underworld deities . |
28 | The last thing he wanted , as the airplane was tossed round the sky , was another of the policeman 's abusive onslaughts . |
29 | It was popular in the cinema 's was n't it ? |
30 | He joined the then liberal majority on the court and was instrumental in the court 's many decisions which advanced minority rights . |