Example sentences of "was [adj] to [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only on one unit was there evidence of good buildings and this was due to the farmer 's previous experience in the building trade . |
| 2 | This delay relative to Europe was due to the USA 's later economic development and lack of colonial possessions . |
| 3 | Much of this increase was due to the government 's privatization programme , which encouraged small investors to buy shares in companies such as British Telecom and British Gas . |
| 4 | In such a case , it is up to the complainant to show that the damage or injury was due to the manufacturer 's negligence . |
| 5 | He supposed it was due to the railways ' air of resentful obsolescence , combined with their persistent insights into what was so often ignored : abandoned pastures , neglected buildings , all that was overgrown and outmoded , all that was best forgotten . |
| 6 | Chief executive Neil Arnold said the shortfall in profits was due to the Co-op 's ambitious expansion plans last year . |
| 7 | So , too , in Ponting v. Noakes , the plaintiff 's horse reached over the defendant 's boundary , nibbled some poisonous tree there and died accordingly , and it was held that the plaintiff could recover nothing , for the damage was due to the horse 's own intrusion and , alternatively , there had been no escape of the vegetation . |
| 8 | Yet many of the teachers we interviewed , far from being unaware of this risk , perceived only too clearly that it was inherent to the LEA 's preferred combination of group work and multiple curriculum focus teaching . |
| 9 | The president 's later budgets were substantially rewritten ; he was obliged to accept a succession of tax increases ; the legislature was unreceptive to the president 's agenda of social issues , ie school bussing , abortion and prayer in public schools . |
| 10 | Dexter was used to the superintendent 's mannerisms but after a second or two , Blanche caught Jane Pargeter 's look of puzzlement , and the detective smiled apologetically . |
| 11 | It undoubtedly appears from this report that , among other factors , decision making in risk management is not consistent across different banks or even within banks ; bank managers give a disproportionate attention to the small business 's founders ' ability to provide security for a loan when assessing risk ; and , although the business plan to recruit a director to handle IT issues was crucial to the company 's success , most of the bank managers interviewed paid scant attention to that factor . |
| 12 | Control of spending was crucial to the government 's strategy because it wanted to cut governmental borrowing and taxes . |
| 13 | The Committee for Education was crucial to the CNAA 's internal discussion , but the issues were wider than its remit and a special committee to consider the response to the James Report was set up . |
| 14 | The smell was similar to the Essoldo 's smell : of Jeyes ' Fluid and old cigarette smoke . |
| 15 | That , no doubt , was central to the MPs ' reasoning last Monday night . |
| 16 | St Matthew 's , as the Archdeacon was never tired of pointing out , was surplus to the Church 's pastoral ministry in inner London . |
| 17 | Politicians of the powerful Irish republican and solidly Roman Catholic SDLP political party were fiercely critical and their co-operation was basic to the government 's policies at that time . |
| 18 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 19 | The senior , Flying Officer Jimmy Coutts , was married to a farmer 's daughter and they were expecting an addition to the family at any moment . |
| 20 | The little white blossom he 'd seen on the road 's surface was stuck to the boy 's sandshoe ; it was n't a flower , it was a little paper charity flag for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution , the sort you secured to your lapel with a pin . |
| 21 | Most important of all was the attitude of West Germany , whose membership was fundamental to the plan 's success . |
| 22 | The fact that Jesus was obedient to the father 's will removed . |
| 23 | Mr Johnson had found that the system , which held highly important statistics including the FTSE 100 share index , and was essential to the paper 's daily production , had been tampered with . |
| 24 | Whether soundly based or not , it is clear that congressional perceptions of Reagan 's popularity were important in influencing votes in the legislature ; and the defection of Boll Weevils , in particular , was essential to the president 's success on key votes . |
| 25 | The Authority recognized that the effective management of PNP ideas and resources within each school was critical to the Programme 's success . |
| 26 | The choice , according to such critics , has been either to increase taxes to cover the public spending for the services — which was contrary to the government 's tax-cutting policies — or to reduce the scale of state provision of welfare . |
| 27 | I can myself envisage no circumstances in which it would be right directly or indirectly to require a doctor to treat a patient in a way that was contrary to the doctor 's professional judgment and duty to the patient . |
| 28 | Strong opposition came from former socialists within the JD who argued that the idea was contrary to the party 's founding principles [ see p. 37004 ] . |
| 29 | In his guidebook , The Frantic Atlantic , published in 1927 , Basil Woon strongly advised that the dinner jacket was vital to a gentleman 's chances . |
| 30 | The car was not bought for resale , and the purchase was incidental to the company 's business as a freight forwarder ; it was only the second or third car bought by the company and so there was not the required degree of regularity . |