Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember I was due at one in the afternoon , but he was so busy that he did n't manage to get me till nine in the evening , but which time all my nerves had thankfully evaporated , and I guess I sang pretty well as a result . |
| 2 | However , it has been so dramatic that I think it would be difficult for us to say that it was due to anything but the dietary changes , especially in view of the double-blind trial . ’ |
| 3 | As to the monthly payments , we have already said that we see no sufficient grounds for disturbing the judge 's findings that the receipts of sums by the plaintiffs from the defendant after Miss Guile left the flat represented no more than was due from him on the footing that he was liable only for monthly payments of £86.66 . |
| 4 | In this House it has been easier for Conservative Members in particular to take a dispassionate view of the matter than was possible for them in the previous Parliament , working as they were under the shadow of a General Election and in the aftermath of a traumatic change in leadership . |
| 5 | Markward of Anweiler , who only approached Innocent when the situation was hopeless for him after the formation of a league of cities against imperial domination . |
| 6 | It was clear to us from the beginning that 1991 would not be a very good year to launch anything — from magazines to Scuds . |
| 7 | I can guess , for instance , that an academic in the drama field , Richard Courtney , was embarrassed by her in the early days because she does not fit his Sladian view of what drama teaching is about . |
| 8 | It certainly contributed in a more direct manner in that most of the food we ate had a high carbohydrate content and , although I was unaware of it at the time , I put on a lot of weight . |
| 9 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 10 | He had disbursed more than was customary with him on the hotel where they had spent the night . |
| 11 | Thacker had set him a spot of overtime and he was hard at it in the mill . |
| 12 | She scanned her mind , but it was blank of everything except the worry of her escape . |
| 13 | The situation was confused for him by the fact that many of the people he had seen in the church of Gesù Nuovo , the ones who had come to pray and adore , were dressed in rags . |
| 14 | The position of Battalion Entertainments Officer was no longer held by Charles within five minutes of the drop of the curtain and although that was gratifying to him at the time , in spite of the manner of his dismissal , there were additional deprivations inflicted by a scandalized CO , that were not easy to bear . |
| 15 | That meant the Minister of Transport was answerable for them in the House of Commons . |
| 16 | She informed me that a double room at the front was available , though I was welcome to it for the price of a single . |
| 17 | It was obvious to everyone from the moment they sat down that Zach was bursting to tell them something . |
| 18 | It was obvious to her from the beginning that there was too much overlap . |
| 19 | Well , the answer was obvious to anyone in the paddock . |
| 20 | What was fascinating to me at the time , was their naming of teachers whom I also recognised , from familiarity with the five or six schools in that particular area of south Oxfordshire : I could immediately apply a cross-bearing as it were of confirmation that what indeed singled out these teachers was a vividness of personality , a cheerful infectious enthusiasm and an unusual energy and commitment . |
| 21 | Many of those involved had reached the conclusion that the philanthropic provision of youth services was inadequate by itself for the task of tackling the economic , social , and what were coming to be regarded as educational problems concerning working-class adolescents . |
| 22 | No wonder he was short with me over the phone . |
| 23 | He was mean to everybody in the family , but especially to Carlie . |
| 24 | Save for one matter , to which I shall refer later , there is no criticism of the judgment or of the order the judge made on the material that was available to him at the time . |
| 25 | 12 Hartley 's essay was available to them in the exhibition brochure , where Stieglitz had reprinted it , and a second commentary about O'Keeffe by Rosenfeld had appeared in Vanity Fair the previous october . |
| 26 | It must be said before we proceed further that this model is so new that no handbook was available to me at the time of writing . |
| 27 | Then I hesitate to say that there 's probably a more complex issue now even than the Fire Station , erm , the figures which are given incidentally are the original estimate there , because that was what was available to us at the time . |
| 28 | The non-robbed make more relaxing if complacent company and Gilles , big loudmouth that he was , gave out an air of confidence that was appealing to me at the time . |
| 29 | Slingsby first visited Norway in 1872 and soon discovered that he was in a country with whose inhabitants he had almost everything in common ; where the language was familiar to him from the vocabulary surviving in the Yorkshire dales , and where the temperament and customs were akin to his own . |
| 30 | The early history was familiar to her from the memoir of the founder which stood in limp green leather covers on Gilbert Racy 's shelves at Betterhouse . |