Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] was [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But such acceptance of the possibilities afforded by modern political institutions was opportunist ; Pius remained implacably opposed to the assumptions of liberal bourgeois civilization . |
| 2 | The British Foreign Secretary , John Major , attending his first EC Council meeting , stressed that the undertaking to maintain a majority of European programmes was non-binding , and should therefore not cause offence to the US . |
| 3 | If a deal was hammered out with the banks , an accompanying rights issue to raise up to £400m from existing private shareholders was likely next spring . |
| 4 | This had been directed primarily at improving rural housing as an adjunct to public health policy , yet not only were the standards of rural amenities still markedly inferior ( for example , 5000 rural parishes possessed no sewerage system ) , but the sheer volume of housing available for rural workers remained inadequate — rural district councils built only 164083 dwellings between 1919 and 1943 , compared with which the number of private houses was 706527 . |
| 5 | The accuracy of his geological maps was legendary , his crisp and lucid style apparent in everything he wrote . |
| 6 | For a while , profits on this grade 1 land came rolling in , but ten years after the initial drainage , the worst areas required re-draining , and even high-pressure jetting of clogged drains was futile against the deflocculated clay slurry . |
| 7 | The argument for the adoption of national spatial policies was persuasive , the latest of a long line of advocacy for a programme of urban rebuilding which would consciously reconstruct older areas to different patterns . |
| 8 | Certification in European projects was one of several topics discussed . |
| 9 | The imperialist attitude was accommodated in his books all the more easily because he put the emphasis on service and sacrifice rather than on nationalist domination or material gain : an approach that may seem hypocritical to present-day readers was sincere enough in a man who set out to be a philanthropist and reformer and became a best-seller . |
| 10 | The stipulation that the study deal not only with the environmental impact , but also with the social and economic impacts was important . |
| 11 | The percentage variation around the mean for [ C ] -PEG concentrations was 2.6 ( 0.2 ) % confirming that steady state conditions were indeed obtained . |
| 12 | Because the range of possible adaptations was unlimited , the relationships could be represented as a branching tree-like pattern , with new branches being added whenever some totally new ( and unpredictable ) form of animal life was discovered . |
| 13 | The LSI had no authority over its constituents but the growing domination of the British and Scandinavian parties was enough to secure this refusal which directly countered the United Fronts established by the Latin parties in the LSI . |
| 14 | The delegations supported sending an international peacekeeping force to Yugoslavia and said that military action in solving internal political disputes was inadmissible . |
| 15 | The total marks which could be awarded for the combined subjects was 100 . |
| 16 | The activities of these joint working parties was extensive and entailed the substantial involvement of teachers in Scotland in curriculum development work . |
| 17 | Their range of social contacts was wider , friends and relatives more likely to be geographically distant . |
| 18 | That illegal payments to players in the top clubs was widespread and continued throughout the period of the maximum wage emerged from evidence of overpayment by Sunderland in the 1950s submitted anonymously to discredit the chairman , Bill Ditchburn , a wealthy local business man , who used to go out to buy fish and chips in his pink-and-mauve Rolls-Royce . |
| 19 | The sense of reaction against pre-war social institutions was strong . |
| 20 | Right until the time that the FRG was included in Nato , the Soviet Union favoured a united , democratic , and demilitarised Germany and was of the view that unification of the two German states was possible . |
| 21 | In addition , fish ponds were deepened to find out if light penetrations was adequate to allow phytoplankton productivity to be increased . |
| 22 | Even in St Petersburg , where the proportion of hereditary proletarians was greatest , only a narrow majority of workers had severed their ties with the countryside . |
| 23 | When one looks back , it is with amazement that survival on the meagre rations was possible . |
| 24 | Until last year the balancing item ( ie , errors and omissions ) in the over-seas accounts was larger than the recorded current-account deficit : so that deficit quite possibly did not really exist . |
| 25 | Also , a truce between the Provisionals and British authorities was due to begin in a few hours . |
| 26 | Wilcock , with a lifelong affinity for cultural outlaws was intrigued by Bruce , even if alarmed that the jacket pocket spilling out with hypodermics would get them both busted . |
| 27 | The humiliation involved in asserting and lauding Elena 's scientific accomplishments was bitter for the country 's intellectuals , in fact for anyone with common sense . |
| 28 | Various outcomes have been examined in randomised controlled trials of intrapartum fetal monitoring ; the only complication to show a lower ( and largely consistent ) decrease in the monitored groups was neonatal convulsion , and this protective effect seemed to be confined to prolonged , induced , or augmented labours . |
| 29 | Carrie and Fred Bradley had come to accept that a drop in their weekly takings was inevitable and there was never any pressure put on the men to leave once they had finished their morning tea or coffee . |
| 30 | As Table 7 , below , shows , although the sample of foreign titles was small , it did , as expected , contain a clear preponderance of purchased items . |