Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Macmillan was thus able to pursue his own policies during his second term in office rather than having to concentrate on damage limitation forced upon him by Anthony Eden 's Suez disaster . |
| 2 | ‘ I was not prepared to use my own savings to pay for that , ’ John said . |
| 3 | He was not able to deduce what these purposes might be , but the persistence of a third sector suggested they must exist . |
| 4 | He was not able to do it all by himself , of course , but he assumed the responsibility , arranged the shipment and testing , recruited consultants ( from among retired engineers ) and certified the work . |
| 5 | Since London was not able to accommodate its own natural increase , it meant that the whole of the 3.5 million population growth had to be found elsewhere — a population increase of well over a third for the area outside London . |
| 6 | Working as a teacher , he was always able to choose his own subjects . |
| 7 | Taking the belt and feeling the weight of it , Sam was hardly able to believe his own eyes . |
| 8 | it was hardly fair to tar them all with Tony 's brush . |
| 9 | Surely it was what he had seen as her present stupidity that had earned her his contempt , since the past was the past , and she was still reluctant to explain anything more than the absolute minimum necessary to put an end to his increasingly unbearable taunts . |
| 10 | It was more diplomatic to put it that way for Mr Multhrop 's chef . ’ |
| 11 | With the estates came the service of the existing duchy officials , but the queen was also able to establish her own connection there , and several of her servants and kinsmen were subsequently rewarded from the duchy . |
| 12 | With the estates came the service of the existing duchy officials , but the queen was also able to establish her own connection there , and several of her servants and kinsmen were subsequently rewarded from the duchy . |
| 13 | You know I think he was fairly crucial to keep us all together . |
| 14 | She was n't pleased to see him any more . |
| 15 | He was n't obliged to follow his own scenario any more , but he knew he would have to obey the voice now . |
| 16 | There were such reams of documents that it simply was n't possible to read them all . |
| 17 | He was n't supposed to give me any objections |
| 18 | As the opening production was Gypsy Baron , where Ingrid was taking the lead and Therese had to play the role of an eighteen-year-old village maiden , it was n't hard to guess what most of the jokes were about . |
| 19 | Life was marching up such a strange road that it was sometimes hard to take it all in . |
| 20 | More and more gliders were being produced all the time and it was quite impracticable to house them all in hangars , so they stood endlessly around the edges of airfields in the rain , waiting for an invasion which might come this year or might come next . |
| 21 | The court was quite prepared to introduce its own qualifications to the First Amendment . |
| 22 | Though when she might have let him know that she was quite able to make her own decisions , thank you very much , she remembered — she still wanted that interview with him . |
| 23 | Prost built up a solid lead of 28 seconds before he pitted and was then able to run his own race to the chequered flag with most excitement focused on the battle for second between Senna and the surging Schumacher . |
| 24 | Having avidly watched the US Open and then The Open on BBC , I was again disappointed to see what little imagination went into the BBC production when compared to the rival production from America . |
| 25 | It was pretty good seeing them all marching together , though . |
| 26 | Hoccleve was a scribe by profession , and was therefore able to write his own confession , but the difficulty in considering the case of Margery Kempe is that she was illiterate , and dictated her account of her life to two different scribes , one a poor writer and the other a priest . |
| 27 | A 13-YEAR-OLD girl who wants to leave foster care and return home to her father was told by a High Court judge yesterday she was too young to decide her own future . |
| 28 | There might have been twenty or thirty figures in there , but it was too dark to distinguish anything more than their vague shapes . |
| 29 | This alarming error had been spotted by his Deputy when it was too late to do anything much about it . |
| 30 | Except for Robin , who had a slight talent for painting , they were plodders , who would never make a mark on the world ; and even Robin was too unsteady to forge his own way . |