Example sentences of "was [adj] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Sharapour fell back it seemed for a moment as if he would get in the way of Mill Reef on the rails , but Lewis was alert to the perils of getting boxed in up the short Longchamp straight and pulled Mill Reef out to begin his challenge . |
| 2 | The question has to be asked , however , if this was due to the activities of the ECSC or if it was merely a consequence of the sustained economic boom which affected the whole of Western Europe . |
| 3 | Section 24 may also be used by a hotelier who is prosecuted under s.14 where the overbooking was due to the actions or default of the receptionist or reception manager and was not part of the hotelier 's policy . |
| 4 | To confirm that the increased cytotoxicity was due to the interactions between the Fc portion of IgG and the Fc receptor on the effector cells , Staphylococcus aureus protein A was added to the ADCC assay . |
| 5 | The reason that it became discredited on the scale and at the speed that it did was due to the efforts of the gentleman who introduced it , the right hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) . |
| 6 | According to the Independent on Sunday of Aug. 25 , the delay in taking this decision was due to the efforts of Gen. Varennikov , who had offered not to interfere in Ukrainian affairs if Ukraine accepted SCSE government . |
| 7 | He supposed it was due to the railways ' air of resentful obsolescence , combined with their persistent insights into what was so often ignored : abandoned pastures , neglected buildings , all that was overgrown and outmoded , all that was best forgotten . |
| 8 | I reckoned this was due to the attitudes of officials . |
| 9 | There was thereafter a not inconsiderable delay which the plaintiff explained was due to the delays in the correspondence with the Land Registry and also with the mortgagees ' solicitors . |
| 10 | A friend said at the time : ‘ The break up was due to the pressures of a bad season . |
| 11 | Those testing to these abuses often explained that their treatment was due to the intrigues of local government officials , who were accusing them of collaboration with the Contras . |
| 12 | To a large degree this was due to the examples of famous churches such as Christ Church , Westminster Bridge Road , to which we have referred before . |
| 13 | Gerald Flood , co-starring as astronaut pilot Conway Henderson , remembers clearly a panic in the studio control room when it was realised that another character , dressed in full space suit , was inaudible to the microphones once he had latched down his space helmet . |
| 14 | The bleak landscape would have depressed most people , but Manescu was used to the winters in Romania . |
| 15 | The city was used to the incursions of travelling tumblers , magicians , quack doctors , actors , and other undesirable elements , especially during the Fairs . |
| 16 | She was deaf to the arguments of those who told her that they would detract from the product , that they promoted only ugliness . |
| 17 | She was very hospitable , made Jane sit down , was friendly to the dogs , brought coffee , then sat down herself , obviously overjoyed to have found a neighbour . |
| 18 | Some of the Eclair exercises were faulty in the sense that the tape support was superfluous to the children who had done it already . |
| 19 | It was clear to The Times that bankruptcy was far less of a protection to creditors than a licence to dishonest traders to speculate with other persons ' property . |
| 20 | In theory the system was efficient and just ; in practice it was prone to the limitations of travel , seasons , and the possibility of corruption , which was inevitable in such an extended empire . |
| 21 | Disraeli was acceptable to the salons , Mr Kinnock to the talk shows . |
| 22 | The nature of those developments , and the institutional structure of the villages , was peculiar to the Dukeries , as discussed here under the three separate headings introduced to characterize a place in the previous chapter . |
| 23 | It was immaterial to the customers who dealt with them on the telephone . |
| 24 | This element of control over entry to the trade was crucial to the prospects of artisan unions . |
| 25 | Ib 's Club was similar to the others she 'd visited , but more so , Gina decided a few minutes later as wearily she followed Rune into its depths : deeper , darker , more packed , the music more rawly evocative . |
| 26 | But this , she notes , was similar to the aims of Freemasonry , which , of course , she believes , is controlled by Jews . |
| 27 | Infusion of 10 mM deoxycholate into the transverse colon or caecum produced an increase PYY that was similar to the responses in the sigmoid colon . |
| 28 | The signal FX 75383 ( reproduced opposite ) sent by Gen Robertson from AFHQ on the evening of 14 May was central to the events which are the subject of this report , because it contained the two orders on which 5 Corps was to proceed in making preparations for the handovers of the two groups of surrendered personnel with whom we are concerned . |
| 29 | That , no doubt , was central to the MPs ' reasoning last Monday night . |
| 30 | Showing that the role of Christian institutions and churches was central to the fortunes and misfortunes of the languages , Victor made a major contribution to our understanding of Scottish Gaelic in the religious context , particularly in his outstandingly fine third chapter , entitled Evangelical Religion and the Rise of Literacy in the Mother Tongues . |