Example sentences of "the [noun] was [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it became clear that a considerable part of the defence was going to be that of justification , that the laws and usages of war permitted reprisals to be taken against hostages . |
| 2 | At the forefront of his mind , no doubt , was an awareness of the relative inexperience of the civilian docking crew , coupled with a knowledge that accidental triggering of plasma weapons while they were inside the shield was guaranteed to be instantly fatal . |
| 3 | In 1919 , Longstaff Dennison had claimed that the NCOAP was going to be ‘ a trade union for pensioners ’ . |
| 4 | It was unthinkable that a Bonaparte , the heir to the throne , should not receive a baptism of fire and the Prince was held to be old enough to face up to this . |
| 5 | If the Prince was going to be able to live off it when he finished his naval career and support the wife that everyone seemed so desperate for him to acquire , something radical had to be done . |
| 6 | A principal justification for the change was said to be that it unduly restricted the proper development of the law ( Practice Statement , ( Judicial Precedent ) , [ 1966 ] 1 WLR 1234 ) . |
| 7 | The change was thought to be a direct consequence of the protest action taken by conscripts in May . |
| 8 | Leave was granted and the trial was ordered to be adjourned until the determination of the application for judicial review . |
| 9 | He set sentries , to watch in case of any raid , and the clachan was warned to be ready ; the MacIans might just try it , though they were sore hurt themselves . |
| 10 | He would clearly have preferred to be talking to Fiona on his other side , but the award was having to be paid for with politeness . |
| 11 | The 76-year-old was said to be shocked and upset by the incident . |
| 12 | The RAF was thought to be responsible for 32 murders over 20 years , the most recent being that in April 1991 of Detlev Rohwedder , head of the Treuhand privatization agency [ see p. 38155 ] . |
| 13 | This system combined the probability scores of the words that were produced by the recogniser and a score dependent on how grammatically well-formed the sentence was deigned to be . |
| 14 | It never gave large quantities of milk , but the milk was said to be richer than that of the well-known Suffolk Dun ( see Red Poll ) . |
| 15 | Most of the money was expected to be used to restructure and computerize the nine state banks . |
| 16 | And compared with so self-evident a need , the matter of where the money was to come from was quite irrelevant . |
| 17 | It is not known where the papingo was placed to be shot at but it was probably on top of the old steeple of the parish church ( demolished in 1721 ) or on the roof of the tolbooth which stood in High Street , between the Town 's House and the Cross . |
| 18 | Salaries were not keeping up with the rate of inflation , which in the cities was estimated to be running at 20 per cent . |
| 19 | As of late November the Nasir group still claimed to control Malakal , whereas the government account stated that the town had been attacked abortively by a group led by a local religious leader , and Garang 's wing of the SPLA was said to be claiming that the town had been captured by " southern nationalists " within the army , aided by the southern rebel faction calling itself Anyanya II . |
| 20 | In Jones [ 1981 ] Crim LR 119 , minor abrasions and a bruise were held to be actual bodily harm , though the case was thought to be on the margins . |
| 21 | A temporary repair was made and they flew on to Karachi , where the damage was found to be worse than at first suspected , as the fastenings had pulled out of one of the fuselage verticals . |
| 22 | From the point of view of consumers of produce grown by slave labour the advantage was going to be equally clear ; supplies of cotton from free-labour sources had begun to enter the British market and were substantially effective in reducing prices . |
| 23 | At his funeral the grave was found to be too small and his coffin could not be lowered until it was enlarged . |
| 24 | It was a struggle in which the heroic confessor of the faith was understood to be uniquely assisted by the Spirit of God , and more than one account tells of the ‘ victims ’ being granted visions to strengthen them . |
| 25 | The government 's decision to withdraw from the contract was felt to be a major reason behind his departure . |
| 26 | As in the British Army , the cavalry was considered to be the aristocratic elite of soldiering and the Legion 's Cavalry Regiment was one of the superior regiments in the French Army . |
| 27 | But the declaration issued by the congress left no doubt that the decision was intended to be more than a mere facelift : ‘ The present concept of socialism , the Stalinist system , has exhausted all its social , economic , political and moral reserves , and has proved unsuitable for keeping pace with global developments . |
| 28 | The decision was held to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Soviet Presidium on 20 November and the Baltic republics came in for severe criticism from other delegates at the Supreme Soviet session on 1 December which passed the constitutional amendments into law . |
| 29 | Up to then , the woodland was considered to be the precious part of the countryside , and was often fenced off to stop people getting in . |
| 30 | ‘ The acceptance of our presence throughout the Caribbean was going to be the most vital thing , because the people here took the anti-apartheid struggle very seriously . |