Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ ( a ) that the commission of the offence was due to a mistake or to reliance on information supplied to him or to the act or default of another person , an accident or some other cause beyond his control ; and ( b ) that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of such offence by himself or any person under his control . ’ |
| 2 | that the commission of the offence was due to a mistake or to reliance on information supplied to him or to the act or default of another person , an accident or some other cause beyond his control ; and |
| 3 | It was due to a war that the boys became stranded on the island and this alone suggests that man is a sinful creature . |
| 4 | This new zeal was strange in a way because John was n't really our idea , but Malcolm 's . |
| 5 | A dwelling unit , nothing more , something that was right for a girl that was alone , right for a girl who lived without a man . |
| 6 | Only a short time ago she had been as physically intimate with him as it was possible for a man and woman to be . |
| 7 | Men were lying on the dirty floor , a sailor was asleep on a table and two women were drinking at the bar . |
| 8 | During an argument Sandiford , of Barking , Essex , was upset by a remark and later admitted taking the wig and two collars . |
| 9 | Indeed , behind the fears and accusations which surrounded the villainous working-class ‘ scorcher ’ , his emancipated female accomplice , and the unruly cyclist juror we can perhaps sense the vaguely incoherent feeling that the democratic bicycle — which was now only upsetting the respectable pleasures of a quiet Bank Holiday weekend in the countryside — was representative of a force that might be calculated to upset a few other things as well . |
| 10 | Certainly in Light ( 1857 ) [ 1843 – 60 ] All ER Rep 934 , the accused was guilty of an assault when he said : " Were it not for the bloody policeman outside , I would split your head open . " |
| 11 | Was that for a couple or single ? |
| 12 | ‘ My body was that of a man but deep down I had the heart of a woman . |
| 13 | A second and much more general form of patronage was that of a court or powerful household in which there was no intrinsic organization of artists as part of the general social organization but in which , often very extensively , individual artists were retained , often with titles which represent the true cases of ‘ official recognition ’ . |
| 14 | Eck 's reputation was that of a sophist or dialectician rather than a profound thinker but in his day he exercised tremendous influence . |
| 15 | His bus-load of senior schoolboys were all over Aurae Phiala by this time , gushing downhill towards the river like streams in spate , and no doubt he was free for a minute or two to breathe again and care about his own theories and idylls . |
| 16 | His face was grave for a moment and then , unexpectedly , he roared out a great shout of laughter |
| 17 | He was clean-shaven with a face that had been ravaged by acne when younger . |
| 18 | France created a powerful centralized bureaucracy to override local power and ensure a direct supply of resources to sustain the armies of the Crown ; England 's monarchy was dependent upon a gentry that supplied the armed forces , administered local justice , sat in Parliament and paid the taxes upon which the royal armies depended . |
| 19 | ‘ I was afraid for a moment that she 'd strike me . ’ |
| 20 | And , there was some on a plate and my sister 's little lad went up and went to take one off this plate and then Valerie tu turned round , she said er , you ca n't have one of them , them are for the old folks . |
| 21 | Japanese business was relieved at a result that ensures a continuing welcome mat for them in Britain . |
| 22 | The handrail was visible for a yard or two more , so I figured the catwalk might still be passable ; beyond that I could see nothing . |
| 23 | Mr Ashdown said he could be blamed for forcing a second election , but he was seeking PR because it was central to a coalition that would ensure a stable government . |
| 24 | Jane was fearful for a moment that Flopsy might be lying in state . |
| 25 | Marks ' entrepreneurial spirit was typical of a city that has thrived on its ability to sell . |
| 26 | Detained under a section of the Mental Health Act in the first place , these patients had responded to treatment in hospital , and their leave was subject to a requirement that treatment should be continued outside hospital . |
| 27 | In the later eighteenth century the concept of nobility was subject to an attack that reached surprising verbal violence : the useful bourgeois was set against the useless noble as the pattern of social virtue . |
| 28 | The latter was accessible to an observer but the nature of the former could only be inferred . |
| 29 | And he did his own gardening , right up , when he was a hundred , he was fit as a fiddle when he was a hundred , doing his own gardening . |
| 30 | He immediately booked a flight to Toulouse , saw a house 35 miles north-west of Toulouse in a small hamlet and realised it was ideal as a home as well as an auberge . |