Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps something of Mme G 's tolerance of my relationship with her son was due to her knowing that I was barren . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was due to her feeling adrift , but she appeared to have suffered a brainstorm . |
| 3 | If she did not eat it was due to her feeling nauseous because of her condition . |
| 4 | His enquiry about my whereabouts was due to our having moved house . |
| 5 | Who the rise was due to I do n't know except that I think David probably would n't have had the idea to have opened such wonderful offices and created such a great mystique about it which MainMan had . |
| 6 | ‘ It was rash of me to promise when I 'm constantly so strapped for cash . ’ |
| 7 | It was usual for him to wheedle a few from any European who stopped . ) |
| 8 | You see , Great-Aunt Jane was a skilled dressmaker and made clothes for quite a number of young ladies in Baldersdale , and it was usual for them to try on the new clothes and have the final fittings in the kitchen . |
| 9 | It was usual for us to call when we took the horses over to Mickleton to be shod . |
| 10 | I was right about him having flipped , though . |
| 11 | She was right about them letting me out . |
| 12 | Schiller had pleaded , once again going through the many reasons why it was right for him to gain a seat on the council . |
| 13 | The time was right for me to leave , because I had become stale . |
| 14 | What probably happened was that she suddenly decided the time was right for her to do some publicity and she had something to talk about , her book , Elizabeth Takes off . |
| 15 | I explained that we men were ready to stay if the meeting felt it was right for us to do so . |
| 16 | Well , there had been neither the commanding tone nor the easy insolence from that couple ; and yet , in a way she knew her father was right in his summing up of the gentry . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , it was unnecessary of him to say it — I 've spoken to an analyst about it and I 'll probably grow out of it , when I 'm bigger . |
| 18 | Nour said ( he really did say it ) that I was disobedient to him to persist in feeding the cat . |
| 19 | Was each of them waiting for the other to make the next move ? |
| 20 | Chris Law , who had calculated it was possible for him to stay in the series , led the fleet after a blinding first beat sailed in a wind of 20 knots . |
| 21 | Thus it was possible for him to find his own men in the army which he was attacking . |
| 22 | And maybe then you would like to see society move towards a situation in which the role of women was recognised in such a way that it was possible for them to leave their babies in creches , would you , or |
| 23 | For this reason she remained at Saint Cloud while the Ministers remained in Paris , since it was possible for them to consult the Regent if they thought it necessary . |
| 24 | Alexandra wondered if there was a feature in it : successful younger women , the varied careers it was possible for them to take up these days , the chances they had to rise to the top in their chosen professions , whether or not those professions were less orthodox than the ones chosen by their male counterparts . |
| 25 | Certainly there were part-time specialists operating in settlements like Palaikastro which had no temple , so it was possible for them to work geographically separate from the temple centres . |
| 26 | At last it was possible for them to achieve absolute precision . |
| 27 | All we asked was if it was possible for them to come through Halam and go down School Lane to pick to get an extra bus service at Halam . |
| 28 | Everything they had seen had registered in their subconscious mind without them even being aware of it and , using hypnosis , it was possible for them to recall facts and images they did not even realise they knew . |
| 29 | And in that moment she wished with every fibre of her being that it really was possible for her to stay away . |
| 30 | As the pairs had a pattern to follow which was dictated by the components of their task — lexis , structure , discourse function — it was possible for me to stop the discussions from time to time to concentrate the attention of the whole group on specific issues like , for example , the meaningful teaching or certain lexis and grammar . |