Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of the discussion on full employment policy in his Cabinet committee was to put out a statement before Beveridge , and the politicians were prepared to slide over practical difficulties in implementing the policy — all that was required was a statement of principles . |
| 2 | Already the local people were disposed to make over various small sums for the use of the Schoolmaster . |
| 3 | The products were supposed to speed up blood-flow to make people feel more alert . |
| 4 | Their employers were quick to stoke up popular envy through the press if players even temporarily forgot their good fortune . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's because they were able to pick up extra tickets unused by other county boards . ’ |
| 6 | Also throughout this period some members of the House of Commons , though their numbers steadily decreased , owed their election to the influence which the Treasury and Admiralty were able to exert over certain constituencies . |
| 7 | • Williams was due to carry out urgent tests in England in a bid to trace and cure the gearbox problems evident in Phoenix . |
| 8 | Even where it was possible to draw up useful statistics , local officials were reluctant to forward information which might increase the demands made upon them by their superiors in St Petersburg . |
| 9 | This was non-preordinate evaluation , in which it was possible to find out unexpected information . |
| 10 | Closer to them , it was possible to make out individual characteristics ; to see that they had trailing leaves instead of hair and huge , reaching branches instead of arms . |
| 11 | Because the dollar had a privileged status as a reserve currency , theoretically interchangeable with gold , the United States was free to run up huge balance of payments deficits , print money to cover these deficits , and then export their inflation through foreign investment , in the process buying up foreign companies . |
| 12 | What he was looking for was something very small if he was prepared to tip out tiny containers . |
| 13 | Revelations in February 1986 that the government was prepared to sell off British Leyland and Austin-Rover to American-owned companies provoked opposition from Conservative MPs in the affected constituencies which killed the proposals . |
| 14 | He was prepared to buy off political pressure , as over workplace nurseries , in a way Mr Lawson would surely have disdained . |
| 15 | But even here the administration was careful to build up formal channels of access that it could control and that would in turn support the regime , as in the case of traditional leadership , which was recruited as a legitimizing instrument of government in the localities . |
| 16 | Among the fibres of the material it was easy to make out tiny , translucent granules of unburnt , smokeless powder . |
| 17 | Paralysed from the waist down , he was lucky to get out alive . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it was able to take up various causes from Chilean refugees to the RUC complaints procedure . |
| 19 | Also , using the edges of the pastel sticks , I was able to pick out sunlit trailing stalks , edges of leaves and flower heads and petals , with flecks of pure colour — delicious ! |
| 20 | I was able to clean off excess acrylic from the brush hair readily , using first a cold rinse of water , followed by warm water and a little soap as necessary . |
| 21 | Over the next decade he was able to build up comprehensive experience in Hammersmith & Fulham , Brent , Croydon , Berkshire , and lately as assistant director in Bedfordshire . |
| 22 | With reference to the former , Congress was unlikely to pour out vast sums of money for Korea . |
| 23 | It was difficult to win over European partners given the degree of US advance in the field , and the failure of the ELDO European launcher development project . |
| 24 | It was nice to talk over old times and Swire Sugden assured me that in future he would get a consensus before sending in the bulldozers . |
| 25 | The NCB was keen to play down existing evidence , calling it ‘ conjecture and speculation ’ . |
| 26 | He was ready to hand over African colonies to appease Hitler . |