Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The large attendance was due to the outreach efforts of coordinator Bonnie Burgess , and the Women 's Issues Committee of the university of Toronto Medical School . |
| 2 | She felt her stroke was due to the fertility drugs she had taken before each pregnancy , rather than to the childbirth itself : for the fifth pregnancy she had received injections of the drugs for the first time . |
| 3 | He knew what the Victorian churchmen of the north had done for the miners and how by the third quarter of the nineteenth century the Church was strong within the mining communities though it never took the place of the Methodists . |
| 4 | The documentary impulse was inherent in the contract filmmakers made with the MOI at the beginning of the war , but it could absorb the poetic romanticism or Powell-Pressburger , the sophisticated visual and verbal montages produced by Humphrey Jennings , another documentarist with surrealist roots , in such 1941 pictures as Words for Battle and Listen to Britain , as well as films in the realist tradition . |
| 5 | Bill Hughes , deputy chairman of of the Scottish Conservatives , said he was elated about the election results and stressed that the Union was safe in Tory hands . |
| 6 | Certainly he believed his action was right for the opinion polls . |
| 7 | Not all geomorphologists were enamoured of the approach and Smalley and Vita-Finzi ( 1969 ) considered that general systems theory was unnecessary in the earth sciences and introduced confusion rather than clarification to empirical investigations . |
| 8 | It was clear to the research nurses that they needed the RCN 's administrative and financial backing in order to get a national association off the ground . |
| 9 | When he was clear of the goat herds and the sheep that grazed around the village , he moved down to the river that was a tributary of the distant Tigris . |
| 10 | The treatment group mix was different in the hospital attenders , with an inevitable slant towards insulin dependency . |
| 11 | Cameron III was embarrassed by the Smash Hits following and tried not to be a teen idol , whereupon he was celebrated all the more . |
| 12 | One pathologist who was unaware of the virus types found in the cervical scrapes examined all the biopsy specimens and the excised tissues from the patients . |
| 13 | It was warm under the skin rugs , and now that Madra had taken off most of her winter clothing he could feel the shape of her curved next to him . |
| 14 | The principle of individual user autonomy was sacrosanct in the day centres generally and the Contact group in particular . |
| 15 | It was great to win but I was disgusted with the way spectators cheered Paul 's bad shots and when he went into the bunker . |
| 16 | The appointment was subject to the university statutes , which , inter alia , required the applicant to retire from office at the age of 67 . |
| 17 | About six months earlier I 'd put my name down on the lists of three housing associations , because I was sick of the council houses they were giving me . |
| 18 | Not the best reason for flying home , but oh God , she was sick of the subzero temperatures , the fact that the sun rose at ten in the morning and set at two in the afternoon . |
| 19 | The Minister of State , Scottish Office was present during the opening speeches of this debate but he has since disappeared and has not returned since . |
| 20 | No observer was present during the home observations but , for technical reasons , it was found necessary to have an observer in the classroom and , this being so , it was decided to introduce a video-recorder as well . |
| 21 | Before qualifying , Tony was involved in the Trainee Solicitors ' Group and is now involved in the National Committee of the Young Solicitors ' Group which he sees as an important role both socially and in terms of his work . |
| 22 | Assignments of G-imino and G-amino protons involved in base pairing ( Fig.3 a ) made use of cross-strand NOE interactions whose interpretation was complicated by the symmetry properties of the quadruplex . |
| 23 | The phrase " factory system " was already entering the language when , in 1807 , Davies Gilbert MP , a distinguished scientist , declared : However specious in theory the project might be of giving education to the labouring classes of the poor , it would in effect be prejudicial to their morals and happiness : it would teach them to despise their lot in life , instead of making them good servants to agriculture and other laborious employments to which their rank in society had destined them ; instead of teaching them subordination , it would render them factious and refractory , as was evident in the manufacturing counties . |
| 24 | Thus much three-dimensional work was evident in the Art rooms a year later , homework had been given greater emphasis , a tentative start had been made to interdepartmental links with Craft and Needlecraft and the ‘ O ’ and ‘ A ’ Level courses were being revised . |
| 25 | Contrasting profitability was evident in the turnover figures for 1992 issued by Bonhams and Phillips in December . |
| 26 | Observations and comments on the proposal were requested by the B.R.B. in early 1948 from their various departmental heads and all responsible personnel involved , which included the Llandudno Junction Motive Power District , then coded 7A , which was responsible for the garage depots at Bangor ( 7B ) , Holyhead ( 7C ) , Rhyl ( 7D ) and its sub-shed at Denbigh . |
| 27 | His work was concerned with the interplay reactions at the moment of implosion . |
| 28 | It was important for the demonstration aspects of the initiative to have it geographically dispersed in order to get the message across that community care maybe can work but also has its problems . |
| 29 | Overall , though , Mr Oswick said he was happy with the way things had gone this Bonfire Night . |
| 30 | The George was busy with the stagecoach passengers , two of whom had gone in to bait , the others walking about to stretch their limbs while the ostlers led the exhausted cattle away and brought out a fresh team . |