Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] [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 | He read the game appallingly , was caught out several times , and chuffed his way around the back right like a horse that was due for the knackers yard . |
| 14 | But loyalty to the House of Stewart was strong in the highlands and Graham of Claverhouse raised an army from the clans in support of the restoration of King James . |
| 15 | Communist influence was strong in the police and army and they controlled the International Brigade . |
| 16 | However , while North Circular-bound a few months back I was flipping through the channels on the radio trying find something decent when I came across what I later learned to be Hey from the recent ‘ Upfront ’ album by David Sanborn . |
| 17 | Mutual cooperation was undesirable from the generals ' point of view , because it was n't helping them to win the war . |
| 18 | She was polite about the leeks and lumpy cheese and said a similar thing could be done with endives and it looked at first as if the lunch was going to prove a slightly awkward affair . |
| 19 | Looking through the rubble , Ruth saw the whole Castle was alive with the sparks of spears . |
| 20 | The whole place was alive with the wings and calls of sea-birds . |
| 21 | The whole specimen was alive with the wretches that are the polio viruses , at their very worst , attacking the whole spinal column and the brain tissue . |
| 22 | The court said that he was dishonest by the standards of ordinary decent people : " His conduct , judged objectively by what he has done , is dishonest . " |
| 23 | He was conciliatory towards the Lords over jurisdiction and towards the Crown over prerogative . |
| 24 | Despite the fact that Aethelburh was accompanied north when she married by Paulinus as her chaplain , and that Paulinus was subsequently consecrated bishop of York by Archbishop Justus in 625 or 626 ( HE 11 , 9 ) , Eadwine did not hasten to embrace the new faith and it needs to be emphasized that his eventual baptism was untypical among the Anglo-Saxons at this time . |
| 25 | It was usual for the Girls to stay at the English Girls ' Club when they first arrived . |
| 26 | When one people defeated another in the Ancient Near East it was usual for the victors to place in their own temples the sacred figures of the gods of the vanquished . |
| 27 | As was usual with the rulers of the British empire , moral display served a dual purpose , being intended not only to improve native character but also to stimulate native loyalty . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , ’ he said with a smile , ‘ she was right about the rats , anyway ! ’ |
| 29 | All day I 'd felt calm , though aware that everything in Jamila 's life had changed ; and now , on the same day , if I was right about the looks on the two faces in the car with me , the same thing was going to happen to me . |
| 30 | ‘ He was right about the legs , anyway . ’ |