Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " 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 | He was due to attend this year 's Ryder Cup match at The Belfry , but illness prevented him . |
| 3 | Jim was due to leave another school in the area at Christmas 1984 and shortly before summer 1984 a panel hearing was requested due to Jim 's non-attendance at school and the theft of a pushbike . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In five of them the nitrate level already exceeded 50 mg/litre and it was due to exceed that level in the others by 1991–2004 . |
| 6 | His fiancee , Gillyanne Anglin-Jarrett was due to give vital evidence for the prosecution today . |
| 7 | She was due to receive several hours help from a patient aide each day . |
| 8 | When he left the infirmary he was due to spend two weeks in solitary . |
| 9 | Julia felt better once she was on her feet and when she remembered that Comfort was due to arrive that evening cheered up even more . |
| 10 | ‘ About forty minutes before the train was due to arrive this man came up to me and asked if I 'd be interested in making five hundred francs . |
| 11 | On the date of the Appin murder , Glenure was due to evict eleven Stewart families from Ardshiel , against which James Stewart led the fight for legal redress . |
| 12 | According to the script of Shearer 's homecoming party , the £3.6 million prodigal son was due to compound besieged Southampton manager Ian Branfoot 's unpopularity on the south coast with the winner which kept Blackburn on the tails of Championship leaders Norwich . |
| 13 | The boy seriously injured in the blast , 12-year-old Timothy Parry , remained in critical condition and was due to have another brain scan today . |
| 14 | The second phase of installation of modern machinery was due to start this month . |
| 15 | THE GODFATHERS have been forced to cancel their British tour , which was due to start this week , after bassist Chris Coyne sprained his wrists fighting off two muggers . |
| 16 | Construction of the £2.3 million Stonehouse bypass in Lanarkshire , which was due to start next month . |
| 17 | The company was due to announce new RISC machines in October , and originally wanted to release a 680X0 offering at the same time but has cancelled its decision . |
| 18 | He was due to marry this weekend , but now the wedding has been put off until he 's released from prison . |
| 19 | The final task he set himself for his Presidency , which was due to end next year , was to weed out of the Regatta calendar all the rowing courses which could be made unfair by the wind . |
| 20 | So devastated were they when she announced that the term was due to end last week for a long Easter break that they begged her to let them continue . |
| 21 | To confirm that it was due to free radical production he searched for a less complicated generator of oxygen radicals . |
| 22 | Shortly before he was due to deliver that speech on Wednesday — a Burkeian lecture on economic growth and greenery — he realised that he had put some of his best lines in the draft for the Prime Minister 's speech . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He took his case to an industrial tribunal which was due to resume next week . |
| 25 | An industrial tribunal hearing his case was due to resume next week . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Dungannon bowler also showed top form in the women 's singles to beat Pat Day of Leinster 21–17 to win a place in the third round where she was due to meet Inter-Association player Enid Hilton . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | We have become so used to spiteful obituaries that it was pleasant to find some kind thoughts about a dead writer . |
| 30 | Having examined the marble buildings of Rome and Athens , it was refreshing to see white marble outdoors still bearing some resemblance to its original seventeenth-century appearance . |