Example sentences of "was [adj] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cabinet , meeting on 18 October , was unable to decide whether it was preferable to retain some private investment , as the Civil Aviation Committee recommended , or to proceed to complete nationalization . |
| 2 | The CNI itself had nominally been disbanded in March 1990 , but the Defence Minister was quoted as saying that it was preferable to keep former CNI agents " in the establishment than in the street " . |
| 3 | He was due to attend this year 's Ryder Cup match at The Belfry , but illness prevented him . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The next day he was due to take some of the big farmhorses to the blacksmith for shoeing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She was due to receive several hours help from a patient aide each day . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Incredible as it seemed , she 'd been too caught up in her own unhappiness to give a second 's thought to the play , which was due to open that very evening . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The second phase of installation of modern machinery was due to start this month . |
| 14 | He was due to marry this weekend , but now the wedding has been put off until he 's released from prison . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Melia concluded , ‘ We have solid cost and asset management , and will continue to emphasise keeping the business lean , focused and financially strong , ’ and noted that the company was due to launch those new machines and price cuts ( CI No 2,152 ) , late yesterday . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | We have become so used to spiteful obituaries that it was pleasant to find some kind thoughts about a dead writer . |
| 19 | It was usual to extract some form of guarantee in exchange for party support but the secrecy prevented such undertakings from being enforced . |
| 20 | Lilley stated that there was a clear shift in the balance between state provision and self provision and that it was right to shift this balance towards self provision as the wealth of the nation increased . |
| 21 | It can not therefore now justify that it was right to cause those same pensioner 's to pay twenty per cent of the Poll Tax . |
| 22 | I now wonder if I was right to do this . |
| 23 | ‘ It was right to do this to maintain the level of demand during the recession . |
| 24 | ‘ Telfer was right to take that approach . ’ |
| 25 | As it happened , I was right to feel that . ’ |
| 26 | He was right to raise those weighty issues , although they are not issues on which I wish to give an opinion now . |
| 27 | Candida was all very well , but since returning to Portugal she had found her relations and was settling happily into her new life , and Sara was loth to share any secrets with her because she knew that she was incapable of keeping them to herself . |
| 28 | Glaxo believed it was unnecessary to do this because cells sitting on the inner surface of the gut wall do not divide . |
| 29 | If it was possible to do that in the past , it should be possible now for British Rail to design relatively cheap crossing facilities . |
| 30 | The Head of Department accepted that the department had some responsibility for the insalubrious state of the Pottery Hut and that it was possible to do more 3D work , although the problem of group size in this should be recognised in the report . |