Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To remove the fly-by-night and seasonal aquaria , and the bad zoos , the RSPCA was instrumental in bringing forward the Zoo Licensing Act which has dramatically improved the standard of zoos and the welfare of wild animals in captivity . |
| 2 | Beforehand , the pretence that he was interested in putting together a documentary series on psychic phenomena had seemed a good one . |
| 3 | This year was unusual in having quite a few cool , cloudy days and some rain , though the final week was sunny and quite hot . |
| 4 | In a randomised blinded phase I/II trial comparing Ro-24-7429 with nucleoside RT inhibitors in 96 patients ( CD4 50–500/L ) , Haubrich et al ( California , USA ) found that although the drug was well tolerated , it was ineffective in producing either a rise in CD4 count or a fall in p24 antigen activity . |
| 5 | I did not even complain to the British Medical Association — as I was in law entitled so to do — about the gross impertinence of a certain toothy and incompetent doctor in this very borough who imagined in his stupidity that I was incapable of reading upside-down the notes he was making on the other side of a desk at which I was once unwise enough to sit . |
| 6 | The French military authorities held that , since their army was incapable of invading even the demilitarised Rhineland , the reoccupation would make no real difference . |
| 7 | Rose was intent on laughing away the incongruity of the situation . |