Example sentences of "of [adj] [verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the aristocracy the growth of vast entails was consistently favoured by lawyers ' evasions of the ‘ doctrine of incompatibility ’ , designed to prevent accumulation of entailed estates . |
| 2 | It seems most likely that an appreciable quantity of unreduced bis(2-azidoethyl)ether was still present in the ‘ diamine ’ . |
| 3 | Lord Aldington told the jury that the fate of many of those repatriated was awful . |
| 4 | One of those killed was a suspect turned witness in the April 1989 murder of a prominent property developer . |
| 5 | These suspicions were fuelled when it was discovered that one of those killed was not employed at the mine . |
| 6 | A major defence by many of those prosecuted was that the enclosures had taken place before the practice had been made an offence , and although the practice continued after this date there is good reason to believe that this was often the case . |
| 7 | But equally , MDC in its first eight years was not a major generator of jobs — and the individual cost of those created was extremely high . |
| 8 | One of those charged was George Finbar O'Doherty , who was alleged to have given a command in Irish to the colour party . |
| 9 | One of those to die was a naturalist and an Admiral in the Roman Navy , Caius Plinius or Pliny the Elder , who was a much-respected man and widely-known in his own time . |
| 10 | One of those misled was Trotsky himself , who completely misread the real import of what Bukharin had written , as we shall see in the next chapter . |
| 11 | One of those to fall was Rick Bartlett , Somerset 's top scorer with 56 off 119 balls with seven fours . |
| 12 | But the crush of those fleeing was too much and the officers were swamped . |
| 13 | The English haul of booty and prisoners was enormous : the list of those captured was headed by the king himself , together with his son Philip , the Archbishop of Sens , the Comte of Tancarville , the Comte of Sancerre , the Vicomte of Narbonne , the Seneschal of Poitou and the Comte of Ventadour . |
| 14 | The number of those arrested was put by the government at 1,900 ; by the PPP at 27,000 , and by the local press at about 15,000 . |
| 15 | One of those arrested was conference director Abdurakhim Pulatov ( who was later reported to be in a Tashkent prison ) . |
| 16 | Software managers were said to be deciding which projects to kill at a Geneva meeting last week — one of those mentioned was the Network Application System . |
| 17 | Turning to collective behaviour , opinion of those interviewed was divided on the effect of television on attendance in the Chamber . |
| 18 | Day 1 ) Discovered that the rumour of a constant flow of 25,000 cfs was false . |