Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She subsided wordlessly , wondering ironically how many times it was possible for the same heart to break before there was nothing left of it . |
| 2 | The dating of Romano-British mosaics is not yet sensitive enough to exclude the possibility that the regular grid arrangements ( already discussed ) , the simple " or quincunx-panel lozenge formats , and these centralised designs were not broadly contemporary ( that each was possible at the same time , depending on the taste or knowledge of the client or mosaicist ) . |
| 3 | Some like Sunday long ago , the child Simon had crept up to his Indian step-grandmother when she was asleep in the same wheelchair and thrown a blanket over her , shouting that she was a canary in a cage . |
| 4 | Elizabeth Maginnis , the convener , said the timetable for change — starting at the start of next school year and to cover all schools by April 1996 — was unrealistic at the same time as local government was being reformed . |
| 5 | Sarah Evans , a manager in Price Waterhouse 's litigation and special services department , was cross-examined on the same evidence . |
| 6 | Motivated by an 1841 paper of Boole , Cayley , who was interested at the same time in algebraic aspects of projective geometry , began seeking invariants of homogeneous forms of degree n in two and more variables . |
| 7 | He was proud that the invisible spirit animating the slight frame had dared to conceive the intended deed as his duty ; but he was afraid at the same time that he would lack the courage to endure the pain and carry it through . |
| 8 | Mr Justice Garland ruled last week that it was impossible for the former officers to receive a fair trial because of the saturation publicity that followed the release of the six , two years ago . |
| 9 | An estimate of numbers was impossible in the few seconds available at the pause , but on the return journey , about an hour later , something had awakened them and a most spectacular aerial display was in progress — the two species had reacted differently to whatever had disturbed their siesta — the lapwing wheeling erratically just above ground level , but the ‘ goldies ’ in ever-changing smoke-like clouds high above , performing quick-change evolutions reminiscent of starlings going to roost . |
| 10 | This lady was typical of the many I came across at these events . |
| 11 | Nearly half a century ago , J.M.W. Turner — he of the prize — was subject to the same patronising disparagement as Mr Davey today ’ . |
| 12 | Horton Hospital , located in Epsom , and together with Banstead one of a ring of mental hospitals in the vicinity known as the ‘ Epsom cluster ’ , was subject to the same process of decline and was also in an impossible location to offer community care . |
| 13 | Thus the firm in economic theory behaved identically and was subject to the same constraints whether it took the form of an individual proprietorship , a partnership or a company . |
| 14 | Though a crown body , it did not operate as such and thus was subject to the same planning control as private developers . |
| 15 | And although it was customary for the same actor to double as Mr Darling and Captain Hook the way St Ives played them there seemed little difference between the two — he romped in the nursery and he sky-larked aboard the Jolly Roger . |
| 16 | The barman brought over their hot toddies and Roy was glad of the few seconds ' reprieve . |
| 17 | From Iran turquoise was carried as far afield as west Caucasia , where it occurred in the Maikop barrow in the Kuban , and north Mesopotamia , where it was present in the same tomb at Tepe Gawra as lapis lazuli . |
| 18 | The general categories of applications reported were as follows ; in most cases more than one category was present in the same organization . |
| 19 | ( Spinoza was opposed to the more life denying aspects of the Calvinism of his time . ) |
| 20 | In August Maureen 's friend Mary Mullen was married and a girl who worked with Anne was married on the same day . |
| 21 | He was involved in the same heavy round of duties as soon as he returned to London , however , and honorary positions were becoming increasingly a burden . |
| 22 | As the law requiring £40 landowners to take up knighthood was seldom observed , the sumptuary acts conceded that it was reasonable for the many men who did not choose to do so to adopt the dress appropriate to the standard of living they must certainly have enjoyed . |
| 23 | was impressed by the same consideration . |
| 24 | He was Man-of-the-match in the All Ireland club final , a central figure in Sarsfield 's historic victory . |
| 25 | ‘ Dr Armitage , I confess I had hoped for a little more from someone who knew Dr Wetherby so well and was resident at the same convention . |
| 26 | I think erm previously we misunderstood that point , we thought the hundred and forty five hectares was footloose in the same area of search for the settlement and |
| 27 | This case was concerned with the same facts as Wagon Mound ( No 1 ) and the same defendants . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , it was important throughout the latter part of the last century and well into this one . |
| 29 | I knew Nour was beautiful with the same sort of tutored , obedient awareness that led one to comprehend the merits of , say , the head of Nefertiti , but I did n't care . |
| 30 | It is on this basis that the New Critics argued that criticism was capable of the same degree of objectivity and rigour as traditional scholarship could achieve . |