Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [art] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's er unfortunately the case that relations between the partners broke down and this led in due course to proceedings being commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant in relation to the dissolution of the partners , those proceedings were commenced in nineteen eighty nine , , er in the High Court Chancery Division , there were a number of issues raised in the litigation , one of the matters was a preliminary issue , er concerning the terms of the partnership and that came before er Mr Justice on the eighteenth of February nineteen ninety one , whereby he found in favour effectively of the defendant on that preliminary issue er the plaintiffs it seems were then claiming that partnership , the partnership at will , but Mr Justice held that they were part of the terms of the particular er partnership deed , so the defendants succeeded on that issue , the trial of the action then followed on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one and er Mr Justice made an order for dissolution of the partnership , he then give various directions for accountant enquiries concerning the partnership and he made orders for payments of costs , now the orders for costs were this , that effectively the defendant was entitled to some costs of the preliminary issue and that the plaintiffs were entitled to costs of the er ma if I may put it this way , the main action , and there was then the provision for , set off for the defendant 's costs against the costs ordered to be paid by the defendant , perfectly normal form of order . |
| 2 | ‘ The trouble is , ’ said the kadi , ‘ that apparently the man was a Copt . |
| 3 | But so extreme was the sodomite 's construction that most of those actually engaging in ‘ homo/sexuality , did not identify themselves with it ; not only did they not have our modern categories , but the prevailing categories were so tar removed from how they saw themselves , that apparently the connection was not made . |
| 4 | The cathedral was begun by Russian architects in 1471 but part of the building collapsed in the earthquake of 1472 so the work was handed over to an Italian architect and engineer , Aristotele Fioravanti from Bologna . |
| 5 | By 2 am the pound was up two pfennigs against Wednesday 's price for the German mark to stand at DM 2.87 . |
| 6 | This fortunately the village was never to know , but later on in the war I found how much trouble units of this kind could cause . |
| 7 | In 1872 however the period was reduced to twelve months and seven days . |
| 8 | Everything came through in the first nine months of 1991 so the company was able to trade profitably . |
| 9 | Unlike Aunt Kit , who believed it to be a barbaric rite , intolerable between reasonable men and women , Aunt Lilian , the headmistress , simply felt it her duty to point out that a career — any career — would be less easy once a girl was lumbered with a husband and children . |
| 10 | If the actor was real then the film was real and it worked . |
| 11 | in taxation but that still the peasant was , even though this might seem like quite a bit , the peasant was still in a better position than he had been previous because rents were at least thirty percent . |
| 12 | Held , allowing the appeal , that once an order was made under section 31 of the Children Act 1989 placing a child in the care of a local authority , responsibility for the care of the child was firmly with the local authority and the family proceedings court could not retain a power of review over the care order by including directions ; and that , accordingly , the direction relating to the continued involvement of the guardian ad litem would be deleted ( post , p. 812B , G ) . |
| 13 | Alexei thought , but did not voice the opinion , that possibly the man was suffering from the effects of too much wine . |
| 14 | For these too the experience was a varied one . |
| 15 | I remember a statement ( Mr. Baldwin ) had made two or three years before , that probably the time was not too far distant when he and Mr MacDonald would be sitting in the same Cabinet . " |
| 16 | but I think one one might still see this in terms of , of Mao 's ideas on excesses that , that clearly the situation was not right in the first half of , of nineteen forty seven . |
| 17 | I felt along the ledge at the top of the door and sure enough the key was there . |
| 18 | The one hundred share index was 17.4 points higher at one stage , but finished the day well below it 's best level , 4.2 points higher at 2152.2 , at 4 o'clock the volume was mediocre at 321.7 million shares . |
| 19 | Shortly afterwards Miss T. went into labour and at 10.45 p.m. a decision was reached that she should be transferred to the maternity unit . |
| 20 | In 1922 also an application was received from ‘ a few of the young ladies and the young men of the Edenderry Memorial congregation ’ for ‘ the use of the field at the rear of the church for recreation , viz. the playing of Lawn Tennis . |
| 21 | In the 18 years 1798–1815 inclusive , for each million tons sold there were 0.62 explosions and approximately 11 deaths ; in 1817–1834 inclusive the cost was 0.68 explosions , a 10 per cent increase , but with the loss of only 8.7 lives : for 1839–1844 , this had fallen further to 6.5 lives , But the three periods are not easily comparable ; the new production came not from the old collieries described but from new and ever deeper ones to the south and east made accessible after 1815 by steam-and-gravity operated railways . |
| 22 | By 5 pm the drink was consumed and the body of the kirk was getting high on the spirits ! |
| 23 | During the period of Tatar domination from the thirteenth to the end of the fifteenth centuries , Russia under the Golden Horde had been the most westerly province of the great Mongol Empire founded by Genghis Khan ; but from 1582 onwards the tide was turned and the European Slavs rapidly found themselves rulers of a vast colonial domain stretching across Asia to the northern Pacific . |
| 24 | During the personal reign of Louis XIV from 1661 onwards the post was held by a succession of distinctly able men — Lionne , Pomponne , Colbert de Croissy , Torcy — and the administrative machine which they controlled grew substantially in size and complexity . |
| 25 | Others in the group argued that up to a point all those things were right , but that often a subject was complex , often it could be constructive for everyone to have a chairperson who would guide discussion , not control it , who would be able to be supportive when someone talked too much or too little . |
| 26 | By ten o'clock the town was only half-lit and many of the smaller back streets not at all . |
| 27 | From 6 a.m. the morning was fairly quiet , except for the occasional sniping . |
| 28 | At twelve o'clock the class was dismissed , and there followed a rush for the toilets and ablutions . |
| 29 | It was twelve o'clock the funeral was a usually at . |
| 30 | At one o'clock a hymn was sung to enable those wishing to leave to do so whilst newcomers entered . |