Example sentences of "was [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose this was originally to give a sterile wife a period of grace — she could tell her husband she was pregnant but owing to the machinations of some female rival , the child was ‘ asleep ’ . ’ |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman 's response to the Budget is as empty as that of his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition , whose comments yesterday , I thought were proof positive that the Michelangelo virus was alive and operating inside the Labour party . |
| 3 | At p. 332 it appears to be envisaged that it will depend upon the question whether the label switching was dishonest and coupled with the other elements of the offence of theft or was due to a perverted sense of humour . |
| 4 | Other territories were to be added to the Japanese empire but some were insignificant in terms of size , and elsewhere the occupation was short-lived and constrained by the exigencies of war . |
| 5 | Keegan said : ‘ Bjorn was terrific and adapted to the pace of the game very well . ’ |
| 6 | The crypt was damp and smelled of the occupation of the past six nights . |
| 7 | It was interesting seeing publishing from the top . ’ |
| 8 | The house was old and situated on the outskirts of London . |
| 9 | But it was old and held to the post with bits of string in proper agricultural fashion . |
| 10 | The house was rosy and set into the hill . |
| 11 | The photograph was brown and curling at the edges . |
| 12 | I was nervous and frightened about the future , yet excited because of being so . |
| 13 | He was nervous and unsettled before the opening , and suffered from chills and fever , but , in spite of his aversion to conventional " publicity " , he was persuaded to give interviews to the press , although he was never at his best on such occasions . |
| 14 | Scheler was anti-positivist and opposed to the ‘ cult of science ’ ( Hamilton 1974 : 75 ) which would appear to be at odds with Stark 's position . |
| 15 | She felt infantilised by them , but also felt bitterly that they were not fair , and she was bored and frightened at the thought of remaining bored all her life . |
| 16 | This ambivalence towards public morality was crucial when set alongside the Unionists " extra-legal activities over Ireland . |
| 17 | Within was a colour photograph of Nicola that had been taken several years before : her face was chubbier and her hair , although still a remarkable blonde , was straight and parted down the middle . |
| 18 | Nigel was disgusted but intrigued by the lengths Eleanor had gone to . |
| 19 | Also , since to a large extent the promise of Nazi solutions was false and depended upon the Nazi ability to create the problems it intended to resolve by force , matters in Danzig had to move much more slowly because the city was subject to massive foreign observation through the League of Nations . |
| 20 | While hot-eyed youngsters in the West drift ed about like aimless butterflies on summer days , hoping for the long-imagined mate to materialise , in this place the search was cool-eyed and planned with the precision of a military campaign . |
| 21 | ‘ Mr. Burgess in my judgment was clearly an experienced careful solicitor and I have no hesitation in accepting his evidence that he did form the view that on 26 March 1986 Mr. Winterbone was not capable of making a will for the reasons he stated — namely that he was incoherent and confused in the sense that he was unable to remember names and addresses and he was not at all clear in relation to the names of the people that he wished to benefit . |
| 22 | He was cold and hurt at the end of the run-through , knowing what was wrong and unable to admit it . |
| 23 | He knew that he ought to be trying to sleep — he 'd managed no more than about five or six hours in the last fifty — but he was edgy and alert with the cold-water clarity of near-exhaustion . |
| 24 | It could be used in sieges ; it was valuable when used in the open by a lightly armed foot solder ; likewise , a mounted archer , who did not need a first-class horse to ride , could prove to be a very mobile and effective combatant . |
| 25 | Crilly wakes and tells me about when he was little and slept in the same room as his father , while his sisters slept with his mother . |
| 26 | That illegal payments to players in the top clubs was widespread and continued throughout the period of the maximum wage emerged from evidence of overpayment by Sunderland in the 1950s submitted anonymously to discredit the chairman , Bill Ditchburn , a wealthy local business man , who used to go out to buy fish and chips in his pink-and-mauve Rolls-Royce . |
| 27 | During the final five minutes of this sequence a period of intense activity was obvious and coincided with the emptying of water from the stomach and duodenal bulb . |
| 28 | The National Union of Public Employees said the way in which the board had acted was disgraceful and called for the resignation of all the members . |
| 29 | By the 1980s many asylums had contracted to a size which was dwarf-life when compared with the vast acreages and Palladian pretensions of their heyday . |
| 30 | The police officer 's initial response in evidence — he was ‘ satisfied that it was of no evidential value to our case ’ — was unfortunate and regarded by the judge as ‘ striking , ’ notwithstanding his later qualification that it was of no value in any direction . |