Example sentences of "was [prep] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual pattern was for all to congregate in Minton 's studio where he might cook a large risotto after which they went to a film . |
| 2 | The only way to remove the Government was for Labour to win the next general election . |
| 3 | There was , however , meant to be a distinction between the subjects taken by senior students , aged between 16 and 18 , and those taken by juniors aged between 14 and 16 , just as there was between those employed in skilled trades and those who were in unskilled occupations . |
| 4 | It was through these benefit or friendly societies that working people began collectively to provide insurance against the loss of income through unemployment , and to ensure that each should have a respectable funeral . |
| 5 | I was about ready to leave when somebody leaned on the doorbell . |
| 6 | But he adapts , not without pain ; and even the most romantic heroine learns to accept , like the heroine of Anita Brookner 's Providence ( 1982 ) , that her lover was after all bound in the end to prefer another . |
| 7 | Yet the Commonwealth was after all invented at a time when the British were more than ever enamoured of their capacity for effecting the bloodless obedience of subject peoples . |
| 8 | Survivals include the Cambrian Coast , radio signalled in 1988 , where Barmouth viaduct was after all repaired , the Central Wales where a decision was taken to rebuild the bridge which collapsed while a train was crossing it in high flood , and the Settle & Carlisle where the government perhaps surprisingly refused closure . |
| 9 | One self-described Heathite Tory said that the message from the doorsteps was of profound disillusion with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 10 | Lady Augusta xenophobically added : ‘ … a sort of national prejudice made me attribute the grace and dignity of the scene , for what there was of either came from her , to the blood of Kirkpatrick ! ! ! ’ , a reference to Eugénie 's Scottish grandfather |
| 11 | When the opposition took to arms to break the king 's affinity , Fordham was amongst those banished from court . |
| 12 | It was unlike any kiss that she could remember him giving her before . |
| 13 | Reports said that a Japanese- and Canadian-backed proposal to establish a G-7 working group to follow up the implementation of the latest arms control proposals was opposed by France which was against any move to grant the G-7 a permanent institutional role . |
| 14 | erm I doubt if it really was like that come on ! |
| 15 | It was like some scratched old movie running at half-speed , a bizarre dream sequence . |
| 16 | It was v. pleasant meeting such nice people . |
| 17 | So it was with some hope that I travelled to Scotland . |
| 18 | You know cos the woman I was with wanted to go for a swim and I said no you ca n't this guy , so I went up to him , I said what , what on earth are you fishing for ? |
| 19 | In the long wake of a critical career that had begun in the 1930s avowedly in imitation of Richards and Empson and which ended with his death at the age of 83 , his final achievement of style was above all to create , for a time , a compelling image of himself . |
| 20 | In learning exactly what they do , as well as what they think and feel , we get to know the two young men who affirm , for him , the indestructible spirit of man ( which , to Masefield , was above all symbolised by Troy as he saw it ) . |
| 21 | But his animosity was above all directed against Prince Alexander . |
| 22 | The United States was above all to blame . |
| 23 | Hitherto a semi-independent region of western China ruled by a Dalai Lama , the head of Tibet 's Buddhist clergy and thus its spiritual leader , Tibet was in 1950 occupied by the Chinese communist People 's Liberation Army ( PLA ) . |
| 24 | Hitherto a semi-independent region of western China ruled by the Dalai Lama , the head of Tibet 's Buddhist clergy and its spiritual leader , Tibet was in 1950 occupied by the communist Chinese People 's Liberation Army ( PLA ) . |
| 25 | The Mount of Olives was in that allowed area . |
| 26 | The cost of one SPS according to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration was in 1979 put at $25 billion while $30 billion would be required to set up the project . |
| 27 | Capricorn 's choice of venue in Ohio was in all respect appropriate . |
| 28 | Thus Hartburn vicarage which in 1284 , during a vacancy of Durhanl bishopric , had been regarded as spiritual and left alone by Edward I , was in 1311 declared temporal and claimed by Edward II . |
| 29 | Orchomenos was the only state in Boiotia other than Thebes which had any natural claim to rule all Boiotia ; Tanagra 's brief attempt was possible only in an unusual period when Thebes after her medism was in temporary discredit . |
| 30 | After the Restoration Garway was in 1661 returned to Parliament for Chichester , and quickly became one of its most assiduous members . |