Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former United Kingdom Home Secretary and since 1990 government leader in the House of Lords , Lord Waddington , was announced as the new Governor of Bermuda on April 13 and was due to take up the post in the late summer . |
| 2 | He became concerned when he could not locate him on the premises , because Mr Jowett was due to take over the lambing . |
| 3 | The district which was due to take over the funding is now claiming that some of the people who are now living in the special units attached to old people 's homes are not their responsibility They did not originally come from their districts and so they are refusing to pay some of the finance over . |
| 4 | Ward was due to take over the driving and at the end of it I slumped into the seat beside him in a happy daze which insulated me from all sense of reality . |
| 5 | As established in exploratory talks which took place in January-March 1990 , a major obstacle to the achievement of the EES in the forthcoming negotiations with the EC was EFTA 's demand for equal status with the EC in a joint decision-making body , particularly sought by Switzerland which was due to take over the presidency of EFTA on July 1 . |
| 6 | The result was we arrived in Hong Kong a day late , and quite late in the evening , and our journey to China proper was due to start early the next morning . |
| 7 | Now , still clutching the slices of unyielding satin to her , Nicandra wondered how it was possible to acknowledge fitly the immediate and selfless gallantry she had seen . |
| 8 | Later when he had to leave , Richard was sorry to break up the party . |
| 9 | Gerry Crawley , a NALGO finance spokesman , said the council was prepared to sit out the strike , but that stance was creating a nightmare scenario for the tax which would take years to clear up . |
| 10 | However , doubt arose over whether Kazakhstan was prepared to give up the nuclear weapons on its territory , as it had earlier stated and as Yeltsin was assuring it would . |
| 11 | The conclusion must be that neither side of industry was prepared to give up the old ways of doing things to achieve full employment . |
| 12 | As always , Greta was prepared to take up the challenge ( ‘ We might put pressure on the War Office at this end ’ ) , but was forestalled by an offer from another direction . |
| 13 | He felt the contact was so invaluable that he was prepared to turn down the job at the head of one of the UK 's premier blue-chip companies if it meant making such a sacrifice . |
| 14 | What now became clear was that Cadwallon was prepared to tolerate neither the family of Eadwine nor that of Aethelfrith as rulers of the northern Angles . |
| 15 | As competition for places on the Kindertransporte mounted to panic proportions , the chances of success turned increasingly on knowing the right people — an official who could hurry through an application or , more critically , someone in Britain who was willing to take on the financial responsibility of acting as a guarantor . |
| 16 | It would be wrong , in my judgment , to order under subsection ( 2 ) the repayment of the price of shares unless it were known that the investor was willing to give up the shares . |
| 17 | In contrast alto Ameral Gunson , replacing Carolyn Watkinson , grew with the performance and her recitative The Man That Was Lame conveyed just the right tone . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ It was something I 'd never given any thought to , but it was nice to be asked , and when the Ulster Branch were happy to accept my nomination I was delighted to take up the offer . |
| 19 | As the argument developed , I understood him to submit that as the remedy sought by the plaintiff was itself an equitable one , talk of strict estoppel was inappropriate , and he was content to put forward the alleged assurance and other matters to be considered in the exercise of my discretion . |
| 20 | Like the King in chess the Young King had possessed very little power of his own , yet without him it was impossible to carry on the game . |
| 21 | He was beset by difficulties ; it was impossible to carry out the perambulations during the harvest season . |
| 22 | Danger to the stability of his Europe appeared , instead , for the first time in the Balkans , where it was impossible to muffle forever the basic clash of interest between Austria-Hungary and Russia . |
| 23 | It was impossible to hold back the enthusiasm of the church in its infancy . |
| 24 | Because of the scale of the disaster , it was agreed that it was impossible to recreate so the decision was taken to concentrate on the rescue of a particular individual , Martin Baptie . |
| 25 | From more than a few feet it was impossible to tell even the sex of the figure . |
| 26 | Like the sound of a gong , it was impossible to tell where the clash of the clapper on the bell ended and its echo began . |
| 27 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 28 | It had been impossible to stop my body from charging but now it was impossible to fight off the fatigue . |
| 29 | But it was impossible to forget entirely the rumours that William had been involved with some very undesirable people over the last few years . |
| 30 | The air was so full of flying stones , pieces of metal , swirling dust , that it was impossible to make out the markings on the car which had ended up skewed across the track , but it looked very much like a Dalgety . |