Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was repeated each second . |
| 2 | This was perceived necessary so as to bolster the bargaining position of consumers . |
| 3 | Indeed many of the disagreements of the following years seem to be associated with cities which had once been held by Charibert , and this was to hold true even after the murder of Sigibert , since lands which he had acquired in 567 became bones of contention between his son , Childebert II , and Guntram . |
| 4 | This was to last two years and to be focused on public law and , once more , the study and analysis of diplomatic documents : the pupils were also to have a knowledge of either English or German . |
| 5 | ‘ This was written fourteen months ago , ’ he said quietly . |
| 6 | This was staggering new information , and all kinds of ideas were flashing through our minds . |
| 7 | This was completed last spring . |
| 8 | This was made worse by a slight over-count of whites — people with two homes , for instance , tended to be double-counted . |
| 9 | This was made explicit in terms of the sense of British identity which protestant loyalists experience : ‘ This implies in particular , in respect of Northern protestants , that the civil and religious liberties that they uphold and enjoy will be fully protected and their sense of Britishness accommodated ’ ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : i. 22–3 ) . |
| 10 | The atomic weapon had been developed in the expectation that it would be used if necessary ; this was made explicit in the Hyde Park agreement signed by Roosevelt and Churchill in September 1944 . |
| 11 | This was made explicit by Louis Agassiz , a Swiss who had in 1840 recognized marks of glaciation all over northern Europe and thus given us the idea of ice ages . |
| 12 | This was made explicit in his letter through a particularly unpleasant charge , that a top appointment at Stewart 's Melville was made only to protect the school from the impending action by himself . |
| 13 | This was made possible , in part , by the adoption by the Region of a written policy on closures stressing the desirability of only closing schools on educational grounds , provided that a minimum number of pupils was in attendance . |
| 14 | This was made possible by her great industrial centres , which by 1910 were producing twice as much steel as the British and three times that of the French . |
| 15 | This was made possible by the presentation of the castle , by the 5th Marquess of Bute , to the City of Cardiff in 1947 . |
| 16 | This was made possible by grants from several foundations . |
| 17 | This was made possible by the fact that long American journeys involved overnight sleeping accommodation . |
| 18 | In 1991 we achieved a combined profit of £540,500 ( although down significantly from that of £1 million in 1990 ) and this was made possible without any contribution by RIBA Magazines Ltd. which broke-even . |
| 19 | This was made possible by the return to a revenue surplus , diversion of part of which rapidly decreased the debt by the repurchase of £10.25 million of government stock . |
| 20 | This was made possible by the Kingdom 's being the world 's largest oil exporter and the possessor of its largest accumulation of reserves , estimated at some 165 billion bbl in 1980 . |
| 21 | This was made clear in the circular accompanying the Inner Urban Areas Act 1978 ( DoE , 1978 ) . |
| 22 | This was made clear by the Court of Appeal in Rapier v London Tramways Co . , |
| 23 | This was made clear . |
| 24 | This was made clear by the House of Lords in the leading case of Helby v. Matthews ( 1895 ) . |
| 25 | This was made clear by the House of Lords in the landmark case of Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] AC 112 . |
| 26 | The importance of this was made evident following the results of another survey in April , this one carried out by the German Government , which identified that 46% of all tennis players suffer from tennis elbow as a result of impact shock vibration . |
| 27 | This was made easier by the fact that all the Imperial residences , with the exception of the small Villa Eugénie at Biarritz , were within easy reach of Paris and all of them were on a direct railway line to the capital . |
| 28 | The emphasis was now to be increasingly on service , given to and paid for by the state , which assumed the right to appoint its commanders ( this was made easier by the fact that all accepted the state 's money for service in war ) and to demand that it got the best available in return for its money . |
| 29 | This was given nine months before the bank collapsed and financed Gasco 's takeover of Cornish tin mining company St Piran . |
| 30 | This was given practical effect through the Court 's warning that in implementing the duty of non-recognition , States should not refuse to apply multilateral treaties where the adverse consequences of non-performance would fall directly upon the people . |