Example sentences of "was [adj] [to-vb] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On April 2 the Supreme Court ruled by six votes to three to uphold a stay of execution in the case of Robert Alton Harris , a convicted murderer who was due to die in the gas chamber of San Quentin Prison . |
| 2 | Stig was due to lead in the Finnmårrks Løpet , Europe 's longest sledge dog race . |
| 3 | The first report announced with regret that Harry Vardon , who was due to play in the Opening 36-hole match with James Braid , had caught 'flu and would be replaced by Rowland Jones who had ‘ recently and convincingly beaten James Braid at Tooting Bec ’ . |
| 4 | It was due to run in a couple of days , was n't it ? ’ |
| 5 | And after the smarting ache left by Cameron 's faithlessness , it was pleasant to bask in the kind of warmth — spurious though it might be — which such admiration provided . |
| 6 | It was strange to see in the flesh a man whose name and face had since 1939 been almost as familiar to me as those of Churchill or Hitler . |
| 7 | Taking the view as I do that this breach was incapable of remedy , it was unnecessary to require in the notice that the defendant should remedy the breach . |
| 8 | The government of Taiwan announced on May 11 that the vessel was free to dock in the country but that it would not be allowed to return if it violated international law by making unauthorized broadcasts to the mainland . |
| 9 | I was quite sad to hear my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food say that he was prepared to sit in the negotiations for months . |
| 10 | The employers did however wish to keep the door open for the future , and proposed a ban of five years on women entrants — something which the union was prepared to accept in the hope that " natural reductions " over this period would leave the men in a commanding position . |
| 11 | It was interesting to notice in a Darlington bookshop yesterday that a book called Memory Vision , written by the Club 's founder , Tony Buzan , has been reduced from its original £8.95 to £4.95 . |
| 12 | His daughter Masha was careful to deposit in the synagogue 's library copies of his works as they appeared , to the great appreciation of those who minded such things . |
| 13 | She knew he was fobbing her off , but she accepted it ; she was willing to sit in the back seat and let him do the driving . |
| 14 | I was interested to read in a Northern Ireland newspaper today that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam had considered the same proposal . |
| 15 | She was interested to read in the Report of Dr Kay Davies 's research . |
| 16 | Until now , we have divided the world 's abundance into ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ — it was OK to revel in the beauty of nature , but not to take pleasure in wealth . |
| 17 | Some philosophers argued that the Prime Mover did not exist , or was a weak and feeble deity who was impotent to intervene in the machinations of the universe : Spike could not believe that . |
| 18 | Yet , outside the areas of dispersed settlement — Galicia , the Basque Provinces , and parts of Catalonia — the large agrarian village or small town was a social heritage it was impossible to destroy in the interests of agricultural efficiency ; in arid country the peasant regards the land as the source of a poor livelihood , not as a mystique ; he prefers to live away from it ; the social satisfactions of the pueblo were subsumed in the concept of animacíon , the absence of rural boredom to be found only in an urban or semi-urban community . |
| 19 | It was hard to think in a fight , and harder still to speak . |
| 20 | She was sure he was the handsomest man she had ever seen , but it was hard to tell in the shadows . |
| 21 | It was hard to stay in the house . |
| 22 | ‘ Is this the person she was supposed to visit in the morning ? ’ |
| 23 | This , in theory , is what was supposed to happen in the United Kingdom as regards what are called the ‘ Cinderella services ’ . |
| 24 | In the summer of ‘ 86 there was something called the Harmonic Convergence , which was supposed to usher in the Age of Aquarius — people who were going on about it back in the 60s jumped the gun by about 20 years . |
| 25 | He began examining several of the clay jars and bottles , while Ace stood by , wondering what she was supposed to do in a place like this . |
| 26 | Another serious defect in the previous law , pinpointed by the Law Commission , was that when the section was read literally , liability was seen to turn on the question whether the victim was likely to respond in a way that constituted a breach of the peace in the face of threats , abuses and insults . |
| 27 | But if it had better-information about what was likely to happen in the economy than the private sector , the government could take such measures . |
| 28 | A survey of the careers of scholars generally in the latter half of the sixteenth century allows one to make explicit a generalization implicit in the evidence of the Muftis ' careers , namely that , as a general rule , the higher the level the scholar reached in the medrese system , the higher he was likely to rise in the mevleviyet system . |
| 29 | The absence of a clear candidate was likely to result in a land torn by dispute and , because Arjun had not so far named anyone , it was to men like Burun that the others looked for indication of a preference . |
| 30 | They sat and looked at the wonderful façade of the cathedral and watched people walking by , and Maggie was glad to stay in the light . |