Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one knows when exactly the custom of scrambling for pennies was first started , but Andrew hopes that both the scrambling and the proclamations will continue . |
| 2 | I was not able to see the CIEFL in session , but through discussions was able to get a good idea of the activities of its various English Departments . |
| 3 | Mr Gareth Williams , QC , chairman of the Bar Council , said the advocacy training course for solicitors was inadequate . |
| 4 | The average score for amenities was 7.5 and for aids 3.1 . |
| 5 | The fact that closing date for entries was 28 January seems to have escaped its notice . |
| 6 | Cathy 's second source of beliefs about relationships was cultural : pop songs , magazines , TV and so on . |
| 7 | Before we went on air , the number of people disagreeing that RBS had high rates of interest for savings was higher than the number agreeing . |
| 8 | The Roman appetite for pearls was such that they supplemented imported marine pearls by seeking out those from the freshwater mussels which grew in the rivers of their temperate provinces , despite their relative dullness and lack of lustre . |
| 9 | ‘ They were used to our mad schemes and wearing outrageous clothes for parties was normal in our crowd . |
| 10 | Life for Iranians was austere . |
| 11 | Behind the little girl who was so good at looking after others was another little girl longing to be looked after herself . |
| 12 | As a result of the Married Women 's Property Act 1882 , and later Acts , the capacity of a married woman to own property , to make contracts , and to incur liability for torts was different from that of a man . |
| 13 | Darwin did not have to overthrow a coherent and worked-out theory ; he had to persuade contemporaries that hypothesizing about origins was worthwhile . |
| 14 | The managing director commented , in despair , that the company could never sell shoes in this country , because demand for shoes was non-existent . |
| 15 | The issue here is purely logical : what is the purpose of the category ‘ precatory words ’ if the choice of words for trusts was open ? |
| 16 | Mr Justice McCullough said the UN High Commission for Refugees was entitled to its view that he was a political refugee , and so was Amnesty International . |
| 17 | His scale of values was that of few men , and it is hard to point to any of his successors who carried on his work . |
| 18 | When the notion of Competences was first put to business , the main objection was not just how do you really assess ‘ honesty and relationships ’ but what about the knowledge and understanding to put such capabilities into practice . |
| 19 | I actually thought that his technique for unpacking the hidden history of products was despicable . |
| 20 | The pollen stratigraphy indicates that Salix -dominated vegetation , with a wide variety of herbs was prominent until about 6000 B.P. At about this time Empetrum and Calluna heath , grassland with abundant Plantago lanceolata and P. maritima , and fern-rich vegetation became widespread . |
| 21 | With the wide coverage and freedom given to pupils to develop their own individual lines of inquiry , the identification of a large an detailed collection of keywords was one of the major tasks at the design stage . |
| 22 | The distribution of seats in the Congress of Deputies was Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) 175 seats , combined opposition parties 175 . |
| 23 | The Chamber of Deputies was last elected in April 1987 [ see p. 35180 ] ; the next legislative elections are due in 1992 . |
| 24 | The mix of titles was excellent , but people were trading down — buying the same in volume but spending less on each item . ’ |
| 25 | But after the Norman Conquest the defensive role of cities was ambivalent . |
| 26 | The Hague school of artists was rife with theories about ‘ pure ’ art . |
| 27 | This new generation of artists was quick to see the advantages of the , exciting paints . |
| 28 | The Egyptian system of courts was one of the most complicated in the world . |
| 29 | The mix of calls was confusing , but Edward Jackson talked us through . |
| 30 | Results showed that the DNA content of the epithelium of the upper one third of crypts was diploid in both FAP and SCRC cases , and that proliferative fractions with diploid peaks were present in the lower two thirds of the crypts in both groups . |