Example sentences of "was [adj] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the government had executed the plans it came up with in 1856 , peasants would have been justified in thinking that the devil of serfdom was preferable to the deep blue sea of reform . |
| 2 | Severe criticism of these ideas did little to detract from the belief that even a sickly press was preferable to the Soviet and authoritarian theories outlined by Siebert et al . |
| 3 | It is true that audiences shrieked with laughter , ultimately sealing Gilbert 's fate as a ‘ talking ’ actor , but that was due to the awful dialogue . |
| 4 | In part this was due to the recent unification of the kingdom ; he and his successors were felt to be kings not of one but of a group of kingdoms . |
| 5 | This was due to the low frequency of the susceptibility allele ( 43×10 -5 ) and the resulting low probability that any of the affected patients were homozygous . |
| 6 | Despite apparently positive indications that the economy had become more efficient and successful in the late 1980s , some analysts were sceptical about how much of this was due to the various deregulating reforms . |
| 7 | This was due to the other important aspect of central policy from 1871 , the improvement of institutional relief . |
| 8 | Fed up with nothing going right , he finally decided to change the house number to 11A in the belief that the bad luck was due to the ill-fated number 13 . |
| 9 | For others , the delay was due to the appalling state of Spanish railways . |
| 10 | This belief was due to the alleged webbing of the hands , combined with the horizontal flatness of their tail , supposedly used for sculling . |
| 11 | This contradiction was due to the increasing tension between classes , caused by the development of the technology . |
| 12 | Much of this was due to the new Master , Joseph Dale , appointed by the Company without competition in Stockport on 1st December 1703 . |
| 13 | The increase in cattle killing was due to the sale-voucher systems making it more difficult for casual thieves to keep or dispose of stolen animals . |
| 14 | The investigators speculated that the lack of effect in their study population was due to the 6-monthly rather than 4-monthly dosing schedule , the low mortality rate in the control group , or the postulated lack of other nutrients , such as fat or zinc , in the diet . |
| 15 | First , Marx and Engels argued that one of the reasons why capitalism would be destroyed was due to the internal contradictions of the system itself . |
| 16 | I endeavoured to believe that much , if not all of what I felt , was due to the bewildering influence of the gloomy furniture in the room — of the dark and tattered draperies , which , tortured into motion by the breath of a rising tempest , swayed fitfully to and fro upon the walls , and rustled uneasily about the decorations of the bed . |
| 17 | Part of his success was due to the spectacular tour of the ‘ Greek Slave ’ which began in London in 1845 and subsequently toured the American cities as well as the famous London Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851 . |
| 18 | His recovery , Mrs Puri believed , was due to the personal intervention of Guru Nanak , the sixteenth-century founder of the Sikhs . |
| 19 | The continuing deadlock in the Iran-Iraq peace efforts , which were largely conducted through UN mediation , was due to the intransigent positions taken by the two sides . |
| 20 | This ‘ merger boom ’ ( which became particularly frenetic between 1959–61 ) was due to the following factors : |
| 21 | The establishment of the welfare state and a large nationalized sector ( at the end of the 1930s/1940s period of change ) was due to the political balance in the country at the time and the need of UK industry for a rational provision of education , health and economic infrastructure at the core of the economy . |
| 22 | Partly , this was due to the deep-rooted belief in the importance of all forms of property being held in private hands , and partly to the potentially enormous cost of solving the housing shortage , as well as to rather vain hopes that increasing prosperity and improved public transport would enable poorer urban dwellers to move to cheaper suburban accommodation . |
| 23 | It was due to the happy conjuncture of two facts , the rapid advance of a liberal and ‘ progressive ’ bourgeoisie and the absence of revolution . |
| 24 | This very high participation rate was due to the fast turnover in membership , especially of the chairmen , who were very poorly paid in a time of rapid inflation . |
| 25 | This was due to the hard work put in at all levels and in all parts of the country by the Wimpey Plant and Transport team . |
| 26 | This was due to the severe lack of communication between the Groups . |
| 27 | Lack of experience in command positions was due to the rapid Kigerianization of the army shortly before independence . |
| 28 | People and animals portray in this , in the Tahiti painting , never seemed to be in a hurry , erm , even when always relaxed even when working and I wondered how much of this was cultural and erm , how much was due to the large amounts of erm drugs consumed in most paintings at this , this period but that I suppose I 'll , I 'll never know for sure about , erm with this painting I found in the background , er there 's a figure , that 's looking in on the situation and I , I for myself think 's its probably Gaugin , as he portrays himself as Christ , which I think he did quite a lot to me in , in , in a few of his paintings and so this painting gave me tremendous sense of being looked in on and this figure in the background , was the person that was doing the looking in . |
| 29 | Athelstan concluded it was due to the large empty wine bowl in front of Sir John but Cranston , winking and burping , staunchly kept his hidden resolve not to vex Athelstan further with his own worries and anxieties . |
| 30 | The onus is on the defendant to show that the escape was due to the unforeseeable act of a stranger without any negligence on his own part . |