Example sentences of "[conj] was [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the Tripartite Shrine was dedicated to a particular deity or was sacred to all the deities of the Minoan pantheon is hard to tell . |
| 2 | Clues to the foci of several biogeographers may be gleaned from definitions in the number of texts on biogeography that have emerged to fill a gap that was acute until 1970 ( Table 5.2 ) . |
| 3 | In doing so , he failed to appreciate the political impact on the British , who had put their faith in Skybolt as a way of maintaining the greatest measure of independence for their nuclear deterrent that was practicable at reasonable cost . |
| 4 | During this period it was impossible for the government to introduce legislation that was unacceptable to both Liberals and the Nationalists . |
| 5 | The symptoms , only hinted at by a headache earlier that could easily have been nothing , and by mild swelling that was normal in hot weather , had intensified with frightening suddenness , and Belinda was in no doubt about what it meant . |
| 6 | They added experimental departments in agriculture , forestry and social research , and the school that was famous for 50 years in the world of progressive education . |
| 7 | There was another door behind them , next to an old , faded print that was rotten with damp beneath its mould-spattered glass . |
| 8 | Dirac 's theory was the first of its kind that was consistent with both quantum mechanics and the special theory of relativity . |
| 9 | This plan was based on three major considerations : that in each of the new county areas stemming from the 1974 reorganization of local government boundaries , with the exception of Powys , there should be an institute of higher education incorporating colleges of education and major further education establishments , a proposal that was consistent with those submitted by the local authorities ; that , with the exception of St Mary 's College , Bangor , all the existing colleges of education should be incorporated into the proposed institutes , albeit with some change of functions ; and that in order to strengthen the proposed institutes in Dyfed , Gwynedd and West Glamorgan , there should be a marginal redistribution of teacher training and advanced further education courses , involving also the transfer of student places into these areas from other areas . |
| 10 | Maybe , as Gloria had hinted , there was another side to his nature , carefully hidden from the outside world , a side that was capable of strong passion and sudden violence . |
| 11 | As mentioned earlier , it was realised at an early stage that the new certification framework would have to be underpinned by a documentation method that was easy for all to understand , cost effective and capable of responding to new developments in education and training . |
| 12 | ONe of these was the notion of compiling human knowledge as sets of ‘ rules ’ that could be manipulated and controlled by an ‘ inference engine ’ , the purpose being to combine human type reasoning with the processing speed of the computer and by doing so to provide output that was similar to that of a human expert . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the move to Easingwold , a small market town that was similar in many ways to Pocklington but with fewer saddlers , was a beneficial one , for the family certainly did better once they were there . |
| 14 | He brought a very detailed knowledge and understanding of the IT industry to the job together with great profession competence that was apparent to all who saw him in action . |
| 15 | The inherent danger of reliance on any particular method , and one that was apparent in some responses , is the tendency for libraries who can not utilize external courses or release staff internally as they would ideally like to , largely to abandon ( or never fully entertain ) , the concept of systematic training for all staff . |
| 16 | Among the other revisions it proposed , the Department of Trade and Industry argued that the automatic grant for buildings and machinery that was available through regional development grant was to disappear . |
| 17 | And here he was , stuck with a minor policeman who did n't even have the authority to use the exclusive fast-moving middle lane of the road that was available to important officials . |
| 18 | The remaining two and a half thousand , because they come in on very much slower methods , can take up to two to three hours to reach Bracknell , but by the end of the three hours we have all the information that was available at any given hour of the day . |
| 19 | No more than ten minutes ' walk from Celtic Crescent , in a wide drab street that was unserved by any tram route , its tall aspect , railed forecourt and large Star of David hewn out of the brickwork over the doors drew attention to its foreignness . |
| 20 | As for the curves in this selection , the C13 and C14 were not the same , and therefore the work that was possible with one tool could not be repeated on its mirror image with its counterpart . |
| 21 | With all the oscillation that was involved in that er shop stewards taking cases up , the shop stewards discussing it with the management , the management 's involvement , the management 's attitude becoming gradually , not weakened but er inured to the stewards ' fundamental logical claims on behalf of their members , made it easier you know , and progress was , was being noted that , and earnings were rising , earnings were rising . |
| 22 | Her voice had that familiar note that was halfway between wheedling and autocracy and Sally 's heart sank . |
| 23 | As we saw in Chapter 2 , in his criticism of subcultural theory Matza favoured a return to the less deterministic , less differentiated view of the criminal that was characteristic of classical criminology though , in his later work ( Matza , 1969 ) he moved to a more fully indeterminist view . |
| 24 | He had achieved a miracle of secretarial improvisation in a report which blended all the disparate views of the various voices in a fashion that was acceptable to all of them . |
| 25 | An added form of membership of the ERM that was soft in all three ways would give its adherents greater discretionary use of monetary policy for the purposes of managing their economies . |
| 26 | Probably the largest on the earth 's surface , to me it bears a passing resemblance to a somewhat distorted version of a face that was popular in Eighties amusement arcades — that belonging to a creature called Pac-Man . |
| 27 | St Bernard , Abbot of Clairvaux , developed a cult of inward sensibility that was unprecedented in Christian Europe and his mysticism became the hallmark of the newly-founded Cistercian order . |
| 28 | David had this little compartment and used to spend his whole time in a Japanese kimono with his guitar and a bottle of this horrible Reisling wine that was full of alkaline and gave you splitting headaches , but it was all there was . |
| 29 | A narrow drive ran through a garden that was full of late summer flowers that were still blooming in the warmth of the autumn sun , and large , spreading trees that threw irregular patches of shade . |
| 30 | For one thing , the business of developing theory that was responsive to empirical investigation became a much more serious business as did the whole enterprise of methodology as a specific and distinctive branch of sociology and social research . |