Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right femur , tibia and fibula and bones of right foot were in anatomical with regard to each other , the limb lying stretched along the right side of the trunk but with head of the femur close to the skull . |
| 2 | The cosmids were picked in batches of about 50 from the set of unhit clones ( ie by sampling without replacement ) , and so to ensure that the cosmids in each batch were from different regions on the genome ( and hence to maximize efficiency ) the unhit clones were reordered against the ordered YAC probes . |
| 3 | A police spokesman said the stolen car was in poor condition with a broken rear passenger window . |
| 4 | The 1976 English House Condition Survey found that some 28 per cent of all unfit dwellings in England but only 23 per cent of total stock were in rural areas , defined to include settlements of up to 1,000 dwellings . |
| 5 | This change was of considerable importance in Brent where many residents arrived between the 1950s and early 1970s . |
| 6 | Critics of Guerreiro 's dismissal , however , stated that this decision was for foreign consumption , and pointed out that it was Collor himself who had delayed the boundary decision by six months in order to give FUNAI more time to study the region . |
| 7 | Six theses in this category were from Imperial College , and it would be reasonable to suggest that the copies consulted , and subsequently cited by authors other than the thesis authors , were from London University 's main library , where the set of theses for inter-library loan is kept . |
| 8 | This recommendation was in apparent contradiction to an interview given by Saddam Hussein broadcast on French television on July 9 , in which he stated that he hoped that the first free and democratic presidential elections in the country 's history would take place later in the year and that he would stand for re-election alongside other candidates . |
| 9 | This action was for wrongful dismissal but the same principle applies in a claim for damages for personal injury . |
| 10 | For the eight-year-old Louis-Napoleon , this episode was of great importance for it provided his only memorable contact with his uncle . |
| 11 | He was later to become suspicious of Maine 's motives , however , as he was to see in the glorification of contract a subtle justification of the legal institutions of capitalism , and he was to seen in Maine 's insistence on the primacy of the monogamous family an attempt to prove that this institution was beyond historical change . |
| 12 | This run was of particular interest to diesel enthusiasts , due to the locos employed , resulting in many photographers at all the vantage points along the route . |
| 13 | Many diverse factors have been shown to have influenced the decision makers , amongst which public pacifism was of minor importance . |
| 14 | Furthermore , this fragment was of reduced intensity in the mother ( Fig. 4 ) . |
| 15 | Some of this capacity was in northern parts of the country , subject over the years to Kurdish insurgent activity ; some in the south near Basrah . |
| 16 | He sensed this moment was of prime importance . |
| 17 | This event was of great significance for the development of landscapes on a continental scale because it led to the establishment of new base levels for continental erosion . |
| 18 | But Karen 's sexual behaviour was in marked contrast to her rigid conventionality in all else . |
| 19 | As there was at that time no one else to take up the cudgels nationally on their behalf this service was of great value to the deaf and dumb population , and is no doubt one explanation for the BDDA surviving its early difficult years . |
| 20 | Very few general hospital units , however , have recognized how important this service was to individual patients and now it usually falls to a beleaguered social worker to take on the complex task of sorting out welfare benefits ; social workers are not , however , experts in this field and it is a time-consuming task that few of them relish . |
| 21 | Basil 's influence in this development was of prime importance . |
| 22 | Like all filmstars Lorne was about two foot nine ( something to do with the condensed , the concentrated presence ) , but the old prong was in good nick , you had to admit , with that tan-and-silver sheen of the all-American robot-kings . |
| 23 | Just 30 seconds earlier this teenager was in perfect health . |
| 24 | Although , like the other papers in the group , it had an African editor and staff , final editorial control was in white hands and there was usually close white supervision . |
| 25 | These are a relic of the independent existence of Medieval Serbia when this territory was of great importance in the Balkan Peninsula at a time when the Byzantine Empire was at a low ebb . |
| 26 | The constitution and daily life were in sharp divergence . |
| 27 | This consideration was of primary importance to many of the allies and was a top priority for Syria and Turkey . |
| 28 | By the end of the 1960s British manufacturing was in serious difficulty . |
| 29 | The four-day hearing was in private but the panel 's 37-page report is in the public domain . |
| 30 | The earliest essays in English service-music were on similar lines to early Lutheran ones : truncation of the Mass , and drastic simplification of plainsong as in the Cranmerian Booke of Common praier noted ( 1550 ) of John Marbeck ( c. 1510–85 ) . |