Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way to prevent the poor from plundering resources was to make them ‘ free ’ by depriving them of financial support . |
| 2 | Is someone going to admit I was right in saying pemberton was a BARGAIN : - ) ) |
| 3 | The man responsible for instigating change was Robin Darwin who had taken over as Rector on 1 January 1948 . |
| 4 | Critically , the proposal put forward by Keynes and others in the inter-war years for an ‘ Economic General Staff ’ responsible for planning policy was never implemented . |
| 5 | However , a Nationalist motion calling for the setting up of a small committee to be responsible for housing allocations was rejected . |
| 6 | The risk to elderly people forced to move between nursing and residential homes due to failing health was high , said both speakers . |
| 7 | Nor did he mean what he and Barth had joined in attacking in Schleiermacher and Liberal Theology ( Brunner being indeed far sharper and harsher against Schleiermacher than Barth ever was : Barth used to insist that only one who was capable of loving Schleiermacher was entitled to criticise him ) , namely the supplementing of the revelation of God in Jesus Christ by additional sources of a more general religious or ethical kind . |
| 8 | POLICE are poised to close a drink-drive loophole after a motorist who refused a breath test because he was scared of catching Aids was supported by judges in the High Court . |