Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is particularly ironic that this body of teaching on to which Christian mysticism was grafted was élitist in its view of those to whom such knowledge was possible . |
| 2 | The fact that it was not long after that similar if lesser welfare legislation was introduced is indicative of the public demand and that clerical socio-moral theory did not tally with the people 's experience of reality . |
| 3 | In his view , the minister 's responses to questions asked at the time the legislation was proposed were consistent with the interpretation that the words ‘ the expense incurred in or in connection with ’ meant that the provision of the benefit would produce a charge to tax on the additional or marginal cost only . |
| 4 | That the fox was exhausted is questionable for it did gain the cover of the woods and in all probability survived . |
| 5 | That no final accommodation between these diverse conceptions of the boundaries of English was achieved is clear from the re-emergence of precisely the same argument , but now within a much wider public domain , in 1981 . |
| 6 | The crusades were preached by the official Church ; but the enthusiasm with which the preaching was greeted was due to a wide variety of emotions , of which zeal for a different doctrine from the pope 's was one of the most powerful . |
| 7 | Sex discrimination in employment is a matter dealt with by European law , and the tribunal referred a number of questions to the European Court of Justice which held , inter alia , that the Order in Council under which the certificate was issued was inconsistent with a requirement of EC law that the right of men and women to equal treatment recognized by EC law should be effectively protected by national legal systems . |