Example sentences of "was [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he had sex , he secretly fantasised that he was the woman but even that was confusing because the concept of being with a man repulsed him . |
| 2 | Although Mondello was convicted of lesser charges , including riot , his acquittal on the murder counts was unanticipated because the evidence against him was generally considered to be stronger than that which had led to Fama 's conviction . |
| 3 | It was strange that a man of considerable intellect could give so much attention and attribute such importance to a press which was wholly influenced at all times by political considerations . |
| 4 | I was not pleased with this interview , and thought it was strange that the news of my expectations had not made me happier . |
| 5 | It was understandable that the government of each should have tried to reappraise its policies and priorities , and been anxious to explore its range of options . |
| 6 | Surely it was odd that no light at all shone in the corridor ? |
| 7 | Since the scale was twenty-three miles to an inch , it was possible that a deviation of two or three miles would not be marked , but that could not account for the tarmac . |
| 8 | It was possible that the whole of it could date from 1670 , having been made from two different pieces of silver . |
| 9 | He was unable to do this as it was possible that the cause of the defect was faulty fitting . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ said Kāli : it was possible that the festival of ban pasāi had lost its association with the god of the forest before she was even born . |
| 11 | The conjoint condemnation of enlightened reform from above and a radicalism which derived from doctrines of popular sovereignty was useful because it allowed conservatives to discredit any effort to reform traditional society ; it was possible because the generation of 1760 included pious bureaucrats like Floridablanca , esprits forts like Aranda , and cosmopolitan experts like Olavide ; it was made plausible by the Janus-like face of reform itself . |
| 12 | He was asleep but a voice from behind me might have curdled anybody 's dreams . |
| 13 | If a secured creditor omits to disclose his security in his proof of debt , he must surrender it for the general benefit of creditors unless the court relieves him on the ground that omission was inadvertent or the result of honest mistake ( r 6.116 ) . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) The system was specific and a lot of re-programming would be required to make it work elsewhere . |
| 15 | Both the DC and the PSI apparently tolerated dubious electoral methods in the south of Italy , where corruption was rife and the influence of the Sicilian Mafia and other criminal organizations was strong . |
| 16 | Times were not so hard for businesses then and I was grateful when a year of events raised £107,000 . |
| 17 | As late as the end of July , it was conceivable that the liberation of Paris might be months away . |
| 18 | But the rope was wet and the hook to which it was tied was wet and heavy and her hands had little strength in them . |
| 19 | This was a vexed issue amongst solicitors who were affected in this way ; although it was interesting that the committee of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group concluded that ‘ a levy based on an equal proportion of the payment ‘ was ’ unavoidable ’ . |
| 20 | That he was high as a kite on Ecstasy and had thought they were larking about ! |
| 21 | Pericles , in the funeral speech attributed to him by Thucydides , was clear that a withdrawal by the citizen from public life into privacy was not acceptable : " Here each individual is interested not only in his own affairs but in the affairs of the state as well … we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business ; we say that he has no business here at all . " |
| 22 | With the formulation by Schrödinger in 1925 of the wave equation for an electron , it was clear that a solution to it could pave the way to a direct quantitative predictive method for most , if not all , chemical phenomena by using the values of a small number of physical constants . |
| 23 | Despite Anthony Fauci 's assertion that ‘ the virus is the major factor in HIV disease , ’ it was clear that a shift in emphasis is taking place from direct antiretroviral strategies to immune-directed therapies . |
| 24 | Right from the early planning of EURONET , it was clear that the availability of a considerable variety of user-system interfaces could present severe problems for users . |
| 25 | It was clear that the pace of the interview was going to be determined by this slow , strong man . |
| 26 | Now at Thorsbury she and Victoria often rode to the fields to watch the men labouring and when it was clear that the work of leading and stacking the corn would soon be at an end , she kept the child entranced with stories of the Harvest Suppers of her youth . |
| 27 | The Corpus of Knowledge has been updated in the intervening period , but it was clear that the insertion of the UK into Europe with free movement of labour , required a much broader view to be taken of the hospitality manager . |
| 28 | In Pomerania the average holding was about 5 hectares ( 13–14 acres ) of very poor soil , and even with Herculean effort on the part of the farmer it was clear that the payment of one sixth of profits made purchase almost impossible . |
| 29 | Some of the power workers refused to act as a militant vanguard and said that they would only come out when it was clear that the majority of people supported the stoppage . |
| 30 | By 22 July , the date by which the military conspirators had hoped to be in control of the entire country , it was clear that the territory of Spain was split between the two camps ( see map on p. xv ) . |