Example sentences of "[adv] was [adj] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Brooks , a friend of Dad 's , suffered from corns and so was unable to make the journey to buy his own papers without considerable discomfort . |
| 2 | I was obliged during the course of that first morning to go constantly in and out of the room , and so was unable to follow the proceedings at all fully . |
| 3 | In 1971 it was rescued by Rupert Murdoch , who alone was prepared to risk the capital to keep it afloat . |
| 4 | Freelance trading cartels competed constantly to obtain advance knowledge of the assignment of new commercial concessions by the Court of Adjudication , and this alone was sufficient to justify the elaborate security measures which the Survey Service employed . |
| 5 | In his opening address on 29 September the pope rejected the notion , common since Vatican I , that the authority of the pontiff alone was sufficient to govern the Church , and listed the four aims of the Council : that the Church should have a clearer idea of its own nature ; that there was need for renewal ; that Christians of all denominations be brought closer together ( he apologized for the Catholic Church 's own failings in its relations with non-Catholics ) ; and finally , the need for dialogue between Church and world . |
| 6 | Eloquence alone was sufficient to defeat the motion . |
| 7 | Eventually she came to Byblos and succeeded in having the palace column removed and thus was able to retrieve the casket and take it back to Egypt , where she hid it in the marshes of the Delta . |
| 8 | I also was able to attend the School Speech Day in the evening of one of my work days . |
| 9 | as if the atrocity that came before was necessary to validate the atrocity that will come after . |
| 10 | Few in the Treasury believed that it really was impossible to control the prison population if Ministers were sufficiently determined . |
| 11 | Like the Greek and Egyptian legends of old , here was material to fire the imagination of writer , reader and viewer alike broad in its scope and with a fine attention to detail . |
| 12 | This is far from clear , for the Army at least was prepared to allow the Church of England to remain in being , with bishops deprived of coercive powers . |
| 13 | Lucille felt friendless in an enemy country , but then was relieved to see the Dowager Countess of Mauberges who , like so many other Belgian aristocracy , thought of herself as French and wanted the world to know it . |
| 14 | Hitherto , her parents ' requests for withdrawal of her life-support measures had been denied by the courts on the grounds that the patient 's own wishes in the matter were unclear , and that nobody else was competent to make the decision on her behalf . |
| 15 | One other element however was essential to provide the dynamic for righteous action by evangelicals ; certainty of God 's government was combined with conviction of free human will and agency . |
| 16 | He was apologetic , explained that an error had been made with her account and very cleverly was able to persuade the woman to give her PIN number . |