Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This splendid achievement was due of course to exceptional wind conditions thrusting them along at the remarkable average speed of ninety miles per hour . |
| 2 | That such high quality was possible was due in part to experienced craftsmen being imported from other Habsburg lands but even more important was the nucleus of craftsmen already based in the Italian quarter , from the period of Rudolf II . |
| 3 | The overall quietness , awe inspiring , almost like a mediaeval cathedral , was due in part to the forms and in part to the arrangement of those forms . |
| 4 | That West Germany achieved wealth and stability in the 1950s and 1960s was due in part to the prolonged and steady leadership of ‘ the old man ’ Konrad Adenauer . |
| 5 | The drivers ' uncertainty was due in part to the vagaries of the train from Khartoum , on which half the town seemed to be waiting . |
| 6 | This was due in part to the 50 per cent fall in coffee prices after the breakdown in talks at a meeting of the International Coffee Organization ( ICO ) in July 1989 [ see p. 36836 ] . |
| 7 | The cut was due in part to a recent series of pipeline ruptures and oilfield accidents and to a 4 per cent drop in Soviet oil production in the first half of 1990 ( as compared with the same period in 1989 ) . |
| 8 | Ashton pointed out that the late rise of formal banking in the country was due in part to the fact that it grew naturally out of the financial activities of men who " were content to describe themselves simply as merchants or traders , retailers or even inn-keepers " . |
| 9 | This was due in part to the goodness of the acoustic model , but also to the smallness of the lexicon and to the restrictions of the grammar ( in comparison with RM1 ) . |
| 10 | The industrial tribunal that heard that case accepted that it was undesirable for employees to be prevented from taking time off with their families , although there were other issues involved . |
| 11 | The vote on the decision was 74 in favour to two against ( the United Kingdom and the USA ) , with 19 abstentions . |
| 12 | At that moment it had been appropriate to put big pickets you know I think if we thought too much about it we would have and taken it to the lodge and put it through the union it would have had cold water put over it and you know it was right for Tom to be wary and it was probably right for us to do what we did I mean I think you know it it was successful the way it turned out . |
| 13 | I never opposed his will but was prompt in obedience to his orders . |
| 14 | Where the employer secured a monetary benefit as a result of a contract for the sale of patented goods or services , the presumption was raised that the benefit derived under the contract was attributable in part to the presence of the patent . ’ |
| 15 | Unwilling to follow Merleau-Ponty by dropping the second in favour of the first , Sartre argued that it was possible for man to be both at once through the movement of praxis , that is intentional actions which produce material effects . |
| 16 | Since countries were obliged to maintain par values , it was possible for speculation to be carried out against the stronger and weaker currencies in the knowledge that the currencies concerned might be revalued or devalued respectively , but there was no danger of the strong currencies being devalued or the weak currency being revalued . |
| 17 | It was normal for sentries to be given no bullets . |
| 18 | And in fact that showed no relief to the A sixty one at all in that it was quicker for traffic to actually pass er through on the A sixty one going to the to the traffic model and the all the assumptions built into it , er than it was to use a southern bypass er out to the inner northern route and then back to the A sixty one south of Killinghall . |
| 19 | The price was high in relation to orthodox equipment but was held to be justified by patient throughput . |
| 20 | She felt I had something to say , a strength , and she was willing to staff to my weaknesses to make sure that it was said . |
| 21 | The family was willing in principle to loan or sell some of the most important contents of the staterooms to a hotel , but only on condition that they were given proper conservation safeguards . |
| 22 | The latter pointed out that , while there was a general process of restructuring , the way it worked out in practice was different from case to case and that therefore it was pointless to search for highly regular patterns . |
| 23 | Labour , and its consequences , was not the only factor involved but it was crucial in relation to the social problem , economic efficiency , industrial relations , and to sectional interests . |
| 24 | Distribution of labelled cells within crypts was similar with respect to the two methods with a peak at the 18th and the 24th percentile in the case of BrdU and at the 23rd percentile for PCNA . |
| 25 | The tripartite deal was similar in scope to one agreed in August 1988 [ see p. 36709 ] . |
| 26 | The legislation was similar in scope to the current federal abortion law enshrined within the Supreme Court 's 1973 Roe v. Wade landmark ruling , the foundation for legal abortions within the USA . |
| 27 | It occupied an entire building and was similar in capacity to the programmable pocket calculator that one now buys at the stationers . |
| 28 | Also lacking through routes , as well as extending over seventy miles , Sussex has always been administered in two divisions with two county towns , of which the second , Lewes , was similar in size to Chichester , though less prosperous at this time in having far fewer affluent burgesses and no well-paid artificers . |
| 29 | The picture was similar in relation to sectioned women where female family members were consulted , but interestingly females were not generally consulted where women were not admitted . |
| 30 | His two secretaries at the Board became the Under Secretaries , and in many respects the new Office was similar in organization to Offices of the other Secretaries of State . |