Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | He supposed it was due to the railways ' air of resentful obsolescence , combined with their persistent insights into what was so often ignored : abandoned pastures , neglected buildings , all that was overgrown and outmoded , all that was best forgotten . |
| 2 | Mutual cooperation was undesirable from the generals ' point of view , because it was n't helping them to win the war . |
| 3 | They were examined by a single pathologist ( SD ) who was unaware of the patients ' clinical details . |
| 4 | That , no doubt , was central to the MPs ' reasoning last Monday night . |
| 5 | Either way , the position of women reflected by the dowry system was consistent with the Asians ' new petit-bourgeois role in East Africa . |
| 6 | They were treated like children , not young adults and the 11 p.m. rule imposed on the Beida students without consultation was symptomatic of the authorities ' attitude towards them . |
| 7 | I always felt that it was typical of the Quakers ' practical Christianity to allow their building to be so used . |
| 8 | She was thrilled with the suffragettes ' tenacity and the expression it gave to her feelings about being in some kind of sexual trap . |
| 9 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 10 | He could not admit to his own heart that Surere was involved with the girls ' killings ; though perhaps — the dark thought was there — Huy was afraid to admit such a thing was possible , as he would then , however innocently , have played a part in their deaths . |
| 11 | If torture was involved in the pilots ' remarks this week — and many remember the UN investigations of Iraq 's treatment of prisoners during the war with Iran — the rules were broken . |
| 12 | Neither contender was happy with the selectors ' indecision . |
| 13 | It was critical of the judges ' decision to award only one prize to each competitor , and pointed out that there was nothing in the conditions which debarred the same competitor from receiving prizes in more than one of the three parts of the competition . |
| 14 | According to Walsingham , whose account of the parliament is admittedly full of malice and prejudice , Gaunt was amazed at the commons ' attitude : ‘ Do they think , he said , that they are kings and princes in this land ? |
| 15 | A flouncy negligee and a pair of tights lay over one chair ; the tiny television was perched on another ; a soggy packet of frozen spinach lay beside the gas-ring ; on the crumpled candlewick of the bed an Evening Standard was open at the entertainments ' page so she could decide which film to go and see . |
| 16 | Secondly , in the Fearon case it was not the right to exercise an economic activity which was conditional on the shareholders ' satisfying the residence requirement , but merely immunity from compulsory acquisition measures adopted under legislation governing the ownership of rural land designed to ensure as far as possible that the land belonged to those who worked it . |
| 17 | Then in December he was appalled by the Socialists ' desire to cut the military budget . |