Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were dead lucky to get to bed without a belting on a Sunday . ’ |
| 2 | Claiming that the Budget measures were wholly inadequate to deal with Britain 's jobs crisis , he reminded Mr Lamont of his often-quoted comment that unemployment was a price ‘ well worth paying ’ to get inflation down and said the Chancellor had never apologised for it . |
| 3 | But in the same column Beatrice complains that she nearly had her apartment burnt down after casually remarking that artists were rarely able to distinguish between their good work and their bad and therefore only critics could decide upon the value of a work . |
| 4 | If conventionalism were so single-mindedly practised in a particular jurisdiction and so often announced and confirmed by public institutions that people were thereby entitled to rely on that style of adjudication , of course it would be unfair for some judge suddenly to abandon it . |
| 5 | The well educated and well to do AB readers , 12 — 17 per cent of the population , were most likely to choose among some half a dozen papers . |
| 6 | The adverse circumstances appeared to be part of a chain of events : girls experiencing early disrupted parenting before being admitted into care were most likely to return from the institution to a discordant home . |
| 7 | Over a 16-month period , 296 accidents were reported and of these , 285 were falls ( 3 were scalds , and 8 were abrasions caused by wheelchairs ) and the falls were most likely to occur among those who had suffered previous falls indoors , frequently because of impaired gait and balance , associated usually with a pathological condition . |
| 8 | They were most likely to come from the 35–44 or 55–64 age group . |
| 9 | I propose , as I believe Judge Diamond intended , to consider the preliminary issue on the premise that the effect of the relevant allegations in the statement of claim is as follows : ( 1 ) The health authority 's treatment of the delivery of the plaintiff and the confinement of his mother lacked proper skill and care in respects which were foreseeably likely to result in the plaintiff being born with disabilities . |
| 10 | Who were extremely keen to locate in this county , everything was right for them , Mr Allenby 's borough had the site , my clients had the site should I say , and erm but we lost it to Humberside because it was not possible for either Harrogate or ourselves to look them in the eye and say yes we can guarantee planning consent . |
| 11 | We 're also , now that we have er erm the , the council 's actually hung , but now we have the , the Labour Group largely in control of the direction of what 's happening in the city er we 've been able to raise some issues that were extremely difficult to raise under the previous Tory administration . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Mentiply and I were terribly shocked to hear about your brother , my dear . |
| 13 | They believed , with some justice , that local authorities were better able to provide for variable local conditions than remote central authorities . |
| 14 | No doubt many more boys were up to the same tricks , but convention ruled that they were better able to look after themselves . |
| 15 | With Maggie in London , Sheila and Mona had more light to themselves and were better able to come into their own . |
| 16 | Where the two control groups ( C and U ) were sufficiently similar to appear to be drawn from one parent population , these data were pooled and compared with the test group ( L ) using ANOVA with contrast . |
| 17 | Though it would be some time before he was released from hospital , he was already better and we were all able to relax with relief . |
| 18 | The hearing at Berwick-upon-Tweed , Northumberland , was told Mr Tipping ( 34 ) , of Cobham , Surrey , was unable to open either his main or reserve parachute — but witnesses were only able to speculate about the reasons for this . |
| 19 | Parliament imposed excise duties on beer in 1643 to raise money for its army — and the taxes were only supposed to last for the duration of that little upset . |
| 20 | They were so keen to get to grips with the enemy that they disregarded much of the training in stealth and guile . |
| 21 | does not explain why the rate of investment and innovation in British industry were so low to begin with . |
| 22 | So they got in on the scene and I seen young men that was walking the streets that had nowt to do put a football kit on with G M B written across the front turn out and become super human beings , you never seen nowt like it , they were so pleased to associate with like something like that . |
| 23 | One of the reasons why Sami and Jamal were so happy to cooperate with the Americans was that Younis belonged to the Syrian-backed Amal militia , which had burned Jafaar and Hamadan poppy fields and destroyed their processing labs , and here was a chance for revenge . |
| 24 | ‘ You should have told us you were so eager to go to the town . ’ |
| 25 | I daresay it 's dull , being tied to a house and young children , but it was a life you chose , after all , you were so eager to rush into it that you did n't even take your degree . ’ |
| 26 | This means that the money that the multitude were so eager to learn of will not be as much as was first spoken . |
| 27 | For it was thought that the generalist could , whenever he wanted to , add a specialist dimension to his knowledge , but general concepts were less easy to derive from the specialist . |
| 28 | Older children were less inclined to wait for attention than younger children . |
| 29 | Others were less ready to settle for second best . |
| 30 | The eight-year project involving 50,000 people discovered that those with a high intake of vitamin C and beta carotene ( found in fresh fruit and vegetables ) were less likely to suffer from cataracts . |