Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter , contrary to the expressed view of the Chief Whip , was aghast at the prospect of resignation . |
| 2 | The Glasgow tribunal was alert to the problem of company rules attempting to oust the yardstick of reasonableness in Unkles v Milanda Bread Co , 1973 IRLR 76 . |
| 3 | As Sharapour fell back it seemed for a moment as if he would get in the way of Mill Reef on the rails , but Lewis was alert to the perils of getting boxed in up the short Longchamp straight and pulled Mill Reef out to begin his challenge . |
| 4 | His choice of Indonesia , as opposed to the United Kingdom or the USA , as his first foreign destination was controversial in the light of widespread concern over Indonesia 's human rights record . |
| 5 | Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam . |
| 6 | The Report was due at the end of July , and as the summer advanced the mounting drain on the insolvent unemployment insurance fund made the issue still more critical . |
| 7 | This is intuitively what we would expect and we would say that it was due to a lack of sleep . |
| 8 | But this was due to a variety of special factors — especially lower mortgage-interest rates and the net effect of the recent changes in the poll tax and value-added tax . |
| 9 | Zambia had not seen Alix for months , ever since she 'd set up home with the kid with prosthetic limbs who claimed his disfigurement was due to a variety of fantasies , all of which were subject to detail change , and none of which ever sounded convincing . |
| 10 | January 1990 because of a flu epidemic … in the three months from November to January this year … officials denied today 's action was due to a shortage of funds , , |
| 11 | If it 's later established that death was due to a blow on the head with a blunt instrument , the police are going to find that golf-club and start asking awkward questions , so she puts it round that someone 's nicked it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Her manner was due to a mixture of drink and tranquilliser pills . |
| 13 | This was clearly important when it is recalled that Matadial , when cross-examined about the discrepancy between the January statement and her evidence , gave the explanation that the earlier version was due to a mistake by the police . |
| 14 | This was due to a number of practices , including the willingness of local authorities to pre-fund or defer expenditure , and to enter into various lease-back arrangements with developers and/or funding institutions . |
| 15 | The MATIF secured a higher contract volume and more liquid market in the initial phase of this competition , but it is not clear whether this was due to more appropriate contract terms , or a larger underlying cash market , or whether it was due to a commitment by French banks to support their own derivatives market , perhaps with official support . |
| 16 | Erm , and also the reason why Wilson could not actually read until the age of eleven was not due to the emotional er , problems of his father , it was due to a sort of a form of dyslexic er , th there 's a hell of a lot of debate about this , er , all these things just what er , Einstein is er , criticizing . |
| 17 | The dip was due to a shift to products with lower margins and ongoing price pressures , said the company . |
| 18 | The fossil trend towards giganticism was due to a succession of species following the same pattern of progressive development . |
| 19 | The question has to be asked , however , if this was due to the activities of the ECSC or if it was merely a consequence of the sustained economic boom which affected the whole of Western Europe . |
| 20 | This was due to the advent of ‘ Bee ’ wine . |
| 21 | To confirm that the increased cytotoxicity was due to the interactions between the Fc portion of IgG and the Fc receptor on the effector cells , Staphylococcus aureus protein A was added to the ADCC assay . |
| 22 | Dexter wondered if his vagueness was due to the shock of his wife 's murder or an attempt to gain time . |
| 23 | Thus , it can be argued that the impact of the young Elvis Presley was due to the way in which , taking a range of pre-existing musical , lyric and performance elements , he rearticulated them into a new pattern set by the intersection and intermediation of certain images of class ( proletarian ) , ethnicity ( black/poor white ) , age ( ‘ youth ’ ) , gender ( male ) and nationality ( American South ) . |
| 24 | This he claimed was due to the way in which the modular certificates are gained . |
| 25 | It was due to the wickedness of humanity . |
| 26 | That France emerged from the war with some pride restored was due to the existence of the Resistance , who insisted on maintaining the struggle against Germany . |
| 27 | The reason that it became discredited on the scale and at the speed that it did was due to the efforts of the gentleman who introduced it , the right hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) . |
| 28 | According to the Independent on Sunday of Aug. 25 , the delay in taking this decision was due to the efforts of Gen. Varennikov , who had offered not to interfere in Ukrainian affairs if Ukraine accepted SCSE government . |
| 29 | In part this was due to the haste in which the system was introduced . |
| 30 | It is possible that the motive was astrological and that the invention of horoscopic astrology at about this time was due to the influence of Iranian doctrines of the immortality and celestial origin of the soul . |