Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Pledges to check expenditure were not kept ; indeed , it continued to rise , as did the district rate , a fact that was conveniently blamed on the unfortunate legacy of labour 's investment programme , but was due rather to the desire of the Alliance to extend municipal enterprise and trading , particularly in tram-ways and electricity .
2 The fact that the restaurant was successful was due largely to the way in which their respective talents complemented each other .
3 During the formative years of cultural studies in Britain ‘ textualism ’ was dominant , but the growing disenchantment with its Althusserian paradigm ( of which the Screen/Screen Education division was just one sign ) was due largely to the inability of that paradigm to inform a criticism of telling political intervention .
4 The success of Hornby 's invention was due largely to the principle of gradation from simple sets to others , larger with more complicated mechanisms .
5 The popularity of South Africa 's kruggerrand was due largely to the fact that collectors were buying a precise quantity of gold at only a fraction over the actual cost of the precious metal .
6 The popularity of South Africa 's kruggerrand was due largely to the fact that collectors were buying a precise quantity of gold at only a fraction over the actual cost of the precious metal .
7 The popularity of South Africa 's kruggerrand was due largely to the fact that collectors were buying a precise quantity of gold at only a fraction over the actual cost of the precious metal .
8 The growth of the bill mountain in the first half of the 1980s was due largely to the policy of overfunding the PSBR — that is , selling more public sector debt to the non-bank private sector than was needed to match the size of the PSBR .
9 was due wholly to the negligence or wrongful act of a government or other authority in exercising its function of maintaining lights or other navigational aids .
10 His belief that it was fusion was due primarily to the heat , but he also told Bullough that since October there was some evidence in Utah that neutrons were being produced too .
11 He 's out of his mind in case you 've had an accident or something , but he could n't come after you because he was due back at the hospital for a clinic . ’
12 I left him to his problems because it was coming up to the time when Emil had said the crew should board the train , and I was due back in the coffee shop .
13 Held , that in the opinion of the court , ( 1 ) a stay for delay or any other reason was to be imposed only in exceptional circumstances ; that , even where delay could be said to be unjustifiable , the imposition of a permanent stay was to be the exception rather than the rule ; and that even more rarely could a stay properly be imposed in the absence of fault on the part of the complainant or the prosecution , and never where the delay was due merely to the complexity of the case or contributed to by the defendant 's actions ( post , pp. 18H — 19A ) .
14 That 's why I presume it was eight o'clock in the morning you see .
15 In fact if it was dry down to the band they would near take it in by that time , you with the bands round the middle ?
16 The house was right down at the bottom of the street , and I moved like a ghost from lamp to lamp , tiptoeing for some reason , as if I were in a jungle in dread of attracting the attention of wild animals prowling near me .
17 So the camera was right down on the bottom .
18 He did not look up until he was right down in the station ; and it was a sound that made him look up .
19 Walpole , who had kept his hands almost clean , began the task of rebuilding , a task that was possible only with the cooperation of the Bank of England and the East India Company in taking up some of the over-issued stock .
20 She said : ‘ Oh , I think so — he was upset enough at the idea of Matt building houses next to his pottery , was n't he ? ’
21 The programme and strategy mapped out before the election began was followed — down to Tuesday 's photo opportunity in a Cornish seal sanctuary — and was undiverted even by the War of Jennifer 's Ear .
22 She was sorry immediately for the outburst .
23 Was that not against the word of God who decreed : " Dust unto dust " ?
24 I had the advantage of seeing him first , eagerly scanning the carriages , and I observed that he was bronzed almost to the colour of teak .
25 Bob Champion was thirty-one when in the summer of 1979 he was told he had cancer .
26 Er , I 've put a cloth on the top of it cos we 'd only put it in on the Tuesday and it was wet through on the top !
27 Maggie did n't know exactly what his position was , but he was high up on the management side .
28 The body was high up on the shoal , was n't it ?
29 This was high up above the Bay , on top of the hill .
30 He was high up in the syndicate , which tied him in to Truro Daine .
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