Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And no one had seen or heard any struggle , although Joanna went missing shortly before 7pm last Tuesday , when she was due to take an aerobics class — and when the car park would have been busy . |
| 2 | It was undesirable to make an order which would in practice be executed before the defendant could avail himself of that opportunity . |
| 3 | Sometimes bad things hung on so it was possible to remember an outing as the day the car broke down rather than the day there was a barbecue on the beach and the party went on until the tide came in . |
| 4 | By the time this mill was built , it was possible to use an iron windshaft and gears instead of the all-timber machinery that had for centuries been such a tribute to the skills and ingenuity of millwrights and carpenters . |
| 5 | From half an hour after training , to as long as twenty-four hours afterwards , it was possible to detect an increase in protein synthesis in the brain regions containing IMHV — a result which of course squared with the known amnestic effects of the inhibitors of protein synthesis . |
| 6 | Thus , provided that an employer gave the notice required by the contract , the employer was free to terminate an employee 's contract . |
| 7 | Dudley , a trusted royal servant , was prepared to see an expansion of ducal influence in the county . |
| 8 | Dudley , a trusted royal servant , was prepared to see an expansion of ducal influence in the county . |
| 9 | Only if the government of the day was prepared to fund an idea which could have secured a new source of energy , and helped revitalise a region , would the barrage dream have become a reality . |
| 10 | However , Bush warned that he was prepared to postpone an agreement for Angola to open a trade mission unless the MPLA-PT government allayed UNITA and US concerns about the fulfilment of the May peace accord . |
| 11 | It is significant that in the following year , in his dissenting speech in Reg. v. Warner [ 1969 ] 2 A.C. 256 , 279 , he , while agreeing with the general rule , was prepared to consider an exception from it although not that the time was right to do so . |
| 12 | That is to say , he was prepared to commission an article for The Criterion and to pay for it in advance . |
| 13 | She was prepared to meet an intermediary , anybody , any time . |
| 14 | It was interesting to see an orchestra in quite different circumstances than is usual . |
| 15 | On May 14 the Chilean government announced that it was willing to reach an agreement with the US government to compensate the families of the victims killed or injured in the car bombing which was widely acknowledged to have been masterminded by agents of Pinochet 's DINA secret police . |
| 16 | Julia was interested to see an expression of faint embarrassment cross Bill 's face . |
| 17 | I was interested to read an article on local government financing in the Financial Times of Monday 28 October by the Controller of the Audit Commission , Howard Davies . |
| 18 | Chris was nervous entering an Iron Curtain country for the first time . |
| 19 | But one evening , during the first week of November , he was dismayed to hear an altercation going on in the hall in which his name was mentioned . |
| 20 | It was impossible to escape an impression of lives deeply disturbed and unhappy . |
| 21 | It follows from these passages from the coroner 's affidavit that he did not consider whether it was appropriate to hold an inquest to investigate whether this was a case in which the cause of death was aggravated by lack of care . |
| 22 | In the old days it was hard to get an audience with the Shah . |
| 23 | As more results have come in , the details of Lynch 's model have become enriched , but in an early version , constructed with his long-term collaborator Michel Baudry , the effect of the calcium was supposed to activate an enzyme present in the postsynaptic site which breaks down proteins . |
| 24 | ECONOMIC union between the two Germanies last July was supposed to produce an investment boom : western businesses would pour money across the border to make use of skilled workers in the east and grab a share of a growing new market . |
| 25 | Mr Justice Hoffman said in the High Court that he had decided to suspend judgment until he knew how soon the House of Lords was likely to hear an appeal against an order forcing Mr William Goodwin , aged 23 , who works on the Engineer magazine , to reveal confidential information . |
| 26 | This was likely to produce an income of £16 million on the deposits advanced by customers . |
| 27 | And he was glad to have an excuse to put off telling her the news that he 'd been keeping to himself . |
| 28 | Coffin thought the boy was glad to have an excuse to close the interview . |
| 29 | And Tom the cabin boy had a favourite aunt in Sinkport and was glad to have an opportunity to visit her . |
| 30 | In parliament he was wont to abandon an argument half-completed if he sensed that his point had been made ; the speeches that appear in Hansard were touched up by his staff , and his speeches in the country were given to the press in advance . |