Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever prestige and influence might be gained by being a reserve currency was wholly insufficient to compensate for export profits being lost by overvaluation . |
| 2 | Throughout the coalition , Law was prepared to support its continuation , but he was rarely prepared to argue for concession that would weaken his own party . |
| 3 | Phil was so anxious to get to sea that I was finishing typing my report as we entered the lock , and handed it up to the local officer as the seaward lock gate opened . |
| 4 | While the exact relationship between retirement and ill health was unclear , an association between the two was sufficiently apparent to result in apprehension being experienced by elderly workers and their families . |
| 5 | David Parkin was obviously keen to preserve at work the image of a happy marriage despite , or perhaps because of , his affair with Nicola . |
| 6 | Charles 's government was as concerned about trade as its predecessor and was not restrained by any deep Protestant sympathies , so it was naturally inclined to go to war with the Netherlands , and in the 1660s this was popular . |
| 7 | She was apparently able to win at will , despite a strong challenge from Raul Gardini 's Passage of Venice . |
| 8 | The team was thus able to migrate from planning , through drafting and manufacture , to assembly and commissioning , with up to three exchanging roles at any time . |
| 9 | To her , it was somehow disrespectful to talk to Cabinet ministers in a sweater . |
| 10 | As she explained , it was not easy to start from scratch . |
| 11 | Where leave was given , it was not uncommon to find on investigation that there were no grounds for granting any relief . |
| 12 | Although the opening parade was not due to start until noon , crowds thronged into the grounds o f Eglinton Castle from early morning , everyone hoping for a good place in the arena . |
| 13 | It may have refused to take into account something it was required to take into account or conversely it may have based its decision on something it was not entitled to take into account and so on … " |
| 14 | It followed that in Cocks v. Thanet District Council , since the applicant for accommodation was apparently asserting a breach by the local authority of public law as distinct from private law duties , he was not entitled to proceed by action in the county court , but only by means of an application for judicial review . |
| 15 | By notice of appeal dated 12 February 1991 Mr. Pierson appealed against that refusal on the grounds , inter alia , that the Divisional Court had erred ( 1 ) in ruling that it was not unlawful for the Secretary of State to increase the tariff recommended by the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge for the purposes of determining a prisoner 's first parole review date and ( 2 ) in ruling that Mr. Pierson was not entitled to know in advance the factors which the Secretary of State proposed to take into account in fixing the tariff and to make informed representations in the light of that knowledge . |
| 16 | In Mecca Ltd. v. Kirkcaldy Burgh Licensing Court , 1975 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 50 , it was held that a licensing court was not entitled to found on information neither adduced in evidence , nor within judicial knowledge . |
| 17 | If Marshal Piłsudski and Colonel Beck , the Polish leaders in Warsaw , were upset that France had not given them stronger backing over the Wilia crisis , then they were also relieved to find that Hitler was not prepared to go to war over the city — at least not yet . |
| 18 | Last night , Bashir Maan , chairman of Strathclyde Community Relations Council , said he was not prepared to comment in detail about the controversy until Mr McNeill had his opportunity to put his case . |
| 19 | If there were a powerful king he might find some other way of terminating disputes and for this reason the church — which was not supposed to engage in warfare — was generally in favour of a king who could provide strong government . |
| 20 | She was not able to sleep at night , finding herself pushed about in bed . |
| 21 | In most cases , however , the magnitude of these changes was not sufficient to qualify as nephrotoxicity . |
| 22 | Two years after the onset of symptoms the patient was still unable to return to work . |
| 23 | We were married at home , and one of the reasons why is because we bought a very old house about three years ago and on the top floor it has a , a large room which used to be the ballroom , and we did a little research and we found that the last wedding that we know of in the house took place in seventeen fifty eight , when apparently it was very common in Scotland to get married at home , it was more uncommon to go to church . |
| 24 | No doubt Sergeant Blatchford and Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell would have found much to argue about — not least the question of full-time socialist agitators — but here was agreement of sorts , although as we have seen Baden-Powell was more inclined to smuggle in militarism behind fresh air philosophies , nature study and the smoke of jolly camp fires . |
| 25 | Although very pale on the Monday , like many of your sons and daughters now , she decided it was more important to go to school to sit her mock G C S Es . |
| 26 | None of the Republic players was more likely to come into conflict with Charlton 's tactics than Liam Brady , who announced his retirement from international football after being substituted 10 minutes from half-time in a recent friendly against West Germany . |
| 27 | The House of Lords was clearly reluctant to clash with Parliament on a matter within the scope of Parliamentary Privilege ( see Chap . |
| 28 | Oswy was probably unable to follow in detail the abstruse arguments put forward , but in the end he decided to accept the Roman practice , on the grounds that at the gates of heaven the keys are held by St Peter , and against him he would not contend . |
| 29 | Sales of BS2000 mainframes now contribute about a third of Siemens Nixdorf 's revenues , and Gruneberg denies any negative effects from the downsizing trend — but then the German market always was notoriously slow to latch onto industry trends that are rampant elsewhere . |
| 30 | She was also scared to undress in front of him . |