Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [to-vb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But most were happy to travel just a few hundred yards . |
| 2 | In 1851 , which , with symbolic appropriateness , was the year in which a hungry urban population exceeded for the first time the population of the countryside , drainage-minded landlords up from the shires were able to carry away a wealth of interesting ideas from the Great Exhibition . |
| 3 | And Kraemer and Ossenkopp ( 1986 ) , in an experiment formally equivalent to that reported by Kraemer and Roberts , were able to find only a small and statistically unreliable effect using milk as the flavour ( see Fig. 4.3 ) . |
| 4 | In Pomerania , where in practice serfdom was to last almost a generation longer than in any other corner of Europe , the Prussians were able to prevent even a narrow coincidence of interests between the Polish nobles and peasants by inviting the nobles to leave and by inviting the peasants to become Prussians . |
| 5 | First , the leader of the majority group now becomes the leader of the council — a position many officers were reluctant to recognise even a few years ago — and acts as a political ‘ chief executive ’ . |
| 6 | This meant that we were obliged to make quite a number of our tools . |
| 7 | Since it was possible to examine only a sample of such studies , what follows is aimed to reflect the fact of risk related fertility patterns rather than to give an accounting of the extent and paths of influence . |
| 8 | Assuming it was impractical to produce immediately a system which would do everything that personnel management wanted , which were the most important factors ? |
| 9 | There was more than one kind of love and he was lucky to have even a small share of hers . |
| 10 | President Bush was admirably fast in identifying the problem inherited from the laissez faire Administration of his predecessor , and was quick to put together a $164billion rescue package — by far the largest in the history of finance . |
| 11 | By running a marginal operation that staggered from week to week , he was unable to put together a long-term plan for success . |
| 12 | These seemed to be excellent local background material and I was able to use quite a number of facts from the pamphlets , giving the appropriate reference in each case . |
| 13 | I was able to study only a few of these birds but Brosset 's ( 1978 ) research on the Malimbus weavers of the Gabon forests has usefully extended the story . |
| 14 | This group of three- and four-year-olds were quite happy on their own , but by listening their teacher was able to learn quite a lot about their use of words and understanding of their meaning . |
| 15 | After months of sifting through scores of reports from observers at sea and on dry land , the geologist in charge of the Dutch investigation , R.D. Verbeek , was able to piece together a comprehensive account of the events of the two fateful days , Sunday 26 and Monday 27 August . |
| 16 | I was surprised to find quite a few patches of snow near the summit , which I reached at about half past ten . |
| 17 | The rest of the cabinet was still reluctant to commit the taxpayer , but it was ready to take seriously a scheme put up by Lionel Rothschild for an international trust fund . |