Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [verb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Chapel was uniformly well supported because of the unswerving belief of people who live in this way that some enormous , inexplicable force shapes their destiny . |
| 2 | It was eventually surgically removed although at this stage Donal 's mother was not even aware of the situation . |
| 3 | This , too , was so frequently overrun that by AD 143 it was decided to attempt another defence further north , across the narrower neck of land between Forth and Clyde . |
| 4 | Opposition to the king 's favourite was so soon mobilized that by May 1308 Edward was compelled to banish Gaveston from the realm . |
| 5 | In the abortive Artois offensive of May 1915 , the attack by Pétain 's Corps at Vimy Ridge was so well prepared that for a moment it seemed as if the whole German front might collapse . |
| 6 | By the time his aunt arrived Jamie was so far recovered as to be able to refuse to go home and to point out , severely , that he would be needed , either to assist the police or to be lead rider in the eleven-thirty class , or possibly both . |
| 7 | W.J. White confuses matters more by saying that ‘ the body of Elizabeth I was so poorly embalmed that during the funeral the coffin exploded , owing to the accumulation of the gaseous products of decomposition ’ . |
| 8 | Once arrived , the guests found themselves , for most of the time at least , caught up in a ritual of entertainment which was so smoothly organized as to be unnoticeable and , given the Empress 's indefatigable energy , so tiring as to eliminate any possibility of boredom . |
| 9 | Formerly esquire of the body to Henry the Sixth , Vaughan had become treasurer of the chamber to Edward the Fourth , by whom he was so highly regarded that in 1471 he had been appointed chamberlain to the then one-year-old Prince Edward . |
| 10 | He was a shadowy figure from the past whose name was scarcely ever mentioned except on those rare occasions when they spoke of the accident , that terrible accident that had claimed the lives of him and her mother when Harriet was only four years old . |
| 11 | In about 1935 lie came to Euston Road School when it was just about starting and in no time at all he became a really competent painter in that way . |
| 12 | For example , in southern Macedonia , within easy reach of the port of Salonika , the çiftlik system was more fully developed than in Bosnia and Serbia . |
| 13 | By notice of appeal dated 22 April 1992 the father appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that any consideration of the children 's welfare in the context of a judicial discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention was relevant only as a material factor if it met the test of placing the children in an ‘ intolerable situation ’ under article 13 ( b ) ; ( 2 ) the judge should have limited considerations of welfare to the criteria for welfare laid down by the Convention itself ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law to reject the submission that in the context of the exercise of the discretion permitted by article 13 ( a ) the court was limited to a consideration of the nature and quality of the father 's acquiescence ( as found by the Court of Appeal ) ; ( 4 ) in the premises , despite her acknowledgment that the exercise of her discretion had to be seen in the context of the Convention , the judge exercised a discretion based on a welfare test appropriate to wardship proceedings ; ( 5 ) the judge was further in error as a matter of law in not perceiving as the starting point for the exercise of her discretion the proposition that under the Convention the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the state from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 6 ) the judge , having found that on the ability to determine the issue between the parents there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England , was wrong not to conclude that as a consequence the mother had failed to displace the fundamental premise of the Convention that the future of the children should be decided in the courts of the country from which they had been wrongfully removed ; ( 7 ) the judge also misdirected herself when considering which court should decide the future of the children ( a ) by applying considerations more appropriate to the doctrine of forum conveniens and ( b ) by having regard to the likely outcome of the hearing in that court contrary to the principles set out in In re F. ( A Minor ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 25 ; ( 8 ) in the alternative , if the judge was right to apply the forum conveniens approach , she failed to have regard to the following facts and matters : ( a ) that the parties were married in Australia ; ( b ) that the parties had spent the majority of their married life in Australia ; ( c ) that the children were born in Australia and were Australian citizens ; ( d ) that the children had spent the majority of their lives in Australia ; ( e ) the matters referred to in ground ( 9 ) ; ( 9 ) in any event on the facts the judge was wrong to find that there was little to choose between the Family Court of Australia and the High Court of England as fora for deciding the children 's future ; ( 11 ) the judge was wrong on the facts to find that there had been a change in the circumstances to which the mother would be returning in Australia given the findings made by Thorpe J. that ( a ) the former matrimonial home was to be sold ; ( b ) it would be unavailable for occupation by the mother and the children after 7 February 1992 ; and ( c ) there would be no financial support for the mother other than state benefits : matters which neither Thorpe J. nor the Court of Appeal found amounted to ‘ an intolerable situation . ’ |
| 14 | It seems probable that rebellion in East Anglia was as rigorously suppressed as in Kent . |
| 15 | Public transport was initially most affected and by the end of the month postal services , refuse collection and hospital services were disrupted in cities and towns across western Germany . |
| 16 | The site has been known to many antiquaries from the eighteenth century onwards ; Gordon recorded that the circuit of the walls was still conspicuous , a description which conflicts with the almost contemporary report of that other noted antiquarian of Hadrian 's Wall , John Horsley , who wrote that the Roman site was almost entirely levelled and under the plough . |
| 17 | This diversity and range was nowhere better demonstrated than in our six prestigious national lectures : The first of these lectures having been held in Sheffield , this second was held in Tynemouth and Bill Oakes , Chairman , Northern Section , and his committee are to be congratulated on the 200-plus members and guests that came to hear what Alan had to say . |
| 18 | By 1902 its leaders were apparently on reasonably good terms with Wilson , but the breach was never completely healed and in 1903 it merged with James Sexton 's National Union of Dock Labourers taking 750 members with it , mostly , it seems , seamen on river craft . |
| 19 | There , the audience was very much divided as to its merits and there is n't much doubt that Comerford , certainly one of Ireland 's most distinctive and challenging film-makers , will probably always get that reaction . |
| 20 | Well , I think it 's , it 's largely to do with the changed uses of the living room , because I think one of the , one of the changes that I found in , in the way that people organise the rooms within their house , is changing over from having a best parlour , usually in the front , which was very seldom used except for inviting the vicar in or whatever , or laying out the dead , combined with a back kitchen , a family room , where you ate and so on , and a move over to having one combined living-dining room where all the family 's activities went on . |