Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general preference was that if the message or the information was ambiguous , it was preferable to use oral forms of communication . |
| 2 | Shortly before he was due to take mock exams , he was at a geography lesson which was interrupted by a teacher calling for his services in a football match . |
| 3 | She was due to receive several hours help from a patient aide each day . |
| 4 | When he left the infirmary he was due to spend two weeks in solitary . |
| 5 | The 1991 exercise , which was due to involve 140,000 troops and to last for 10 days starting on March 11 , was the smallest to be held . |
| 6 | A Leicester youth justice worker says the team has a heavy workload — on one day last month the youth court was due to hear 38 cases . |
| 7 | From the moment the 1957 White Paper was published , the Army Council maintained discreet but relentless pressure on the Government to increase the ceiling as commitments grew , just as the General Staff had predicted they would do , and as recruiting figures showed that it was practicable to find enough men to take ‘ the Queen 's Shilling ’ . |
| 8 | The firms argued that this was because they bought quantities of salt from each other ( usually small ) , and it was usual to notify important buyers in advance of price changes . |
| 9 | Candida was all very well , but since returning to Portugal she had found her relations and was settling happily into her new life , and Sara was loth to share any secrets with her because she knew that she was incapable of keeping them to herself . |
| 10 | As commander-in-chief — he would not co-operate with Spanish generals on any other terms — Wellington was loth to regard native troops as an instrument that could be used with safety in battle . |
| 11 | As the Algerian media reported extreme insecurity among the inhabitants of some southern towns , and some newspapers speculated about hidden French or Libyan involvement in the situation , the government claimed that it was unnecessary to send military reinforcements to the region . |
| 12 | In the gloaming it was possible to glimpse passing lights identical to those of a carriage in a moving train , altogether it was an eerie happening — crossing a long-abandoned railway in the Vale of Nightshade ! |
| 13 | However , because the New Range project is very recent in history , it was possible to interview key participants who were able to elaborate on the minutiae of the planning process . |
| 14 | As a result , it was possible to draw certain conclusions : |
| 15 | I wondered how it was possible to love many men when you had once loved one more than your immortal soul , and whether Lili had ever loved like that , or whether this was a torment saved for ridiculous people like myself . |
| 16 | It was possible to classify rectal sensations into a group with no sensation , a group with intermittent need for defecation , and a group with continued need for defecation throughout the distension period . |
| 17 | Except that in the capital city of Palestine , a city covered with soldiers , it was possible to have Arab riots in which six Jews were slain and no soldiers around to prevent it . |
| 18 | He believed that it was possible to apply scientific principles to each task which would replace the old rule-of-thumb method of working . |
| 19 | However , having had the benefit of the pilot study , it was possible to identify specific areas that restrict my practice and so limit my effectiveness : |
| 20 | In a study describing ten of these children it was possible to identify three groups of children : |
| 21 | They were confident that it was possible to make general statements about improvements across a year group , despite individual differences . |
| 22 | Although electrical excitability in the nervous system had been demonstrated before the beginning of the nineteenth century , it was not until the late nineteenth century that it was shown that the brain was spontaneously electrically active Jeannerod 1985 ) , and it was only in the 1930s , after the invention of the valve amplifier , that it was possible to make meaningful records of this activity . |
| 23 | By placing a tethered owl under a tree , the branches of which had been covered with sticky lime , it was possible to trap small birds as they gathered to mob the bird of prey . |
| 24 | It was possible to establish plausible relationships between what is known about normal language acquisition , especially learning to read , and what is known about developmental disorders of language , especially developmental dyslexia . |
| 25 | The largest indigenous groupings occurred further south still , in the wooded steppe and the immense grasslands , where it was possible to herd large numbers of domestic animals , as well as engaging in hunting and primitive forms of agriculture . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , both Weber and the interactionists did think it was possible to produce causal explanations of human behaviour so long as an understanding of meanings formed part of those explanations . |
| 27 | The abandonment of the 1956–62 IRA military campaign was highly ambiguous and from outward appearances it was possible to interpret republican actions as either preparation for a renewed onslaught or as a delicate operation to keep the movement together while its direction was fundamentally changed . |
| 28 | The style of discussion — Zuwaya rhetoric — was generally subdued and relaxed , governed by two apparent rules : first , it was shameful to display personal interests openly ; and , secondly , it was impolite to disagree with guests or hosts . |
| 29 | Verses 2–3 : it was normal to employ professional embalmers — but perhaps Joseph wanted to avoid religious entanglements . |
| 30 | CTSP officials said that until the Tuareg issue was resolved it was unrealistic to conduct electoral operations in the north of the country , which was subject to rebel raids and from which thousands of people had fled . |