Example sentences of "of [adj] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days later , on 26 July , the dowager and the queen left Linlithgow for the greater safety of Stirling , presumably an indication that , with the making of this bond , the relatively straightforward period of the first half of 1543 was over . |
| 2 | The first meeting of 1886 was specially convened to pay tribute to the work of the late Mr. Lister Ives , Under Master since Coombes had left in 1862 , and to express sympathy to Mrs. Ives and her daughter . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the move of 1290 was not quite as cynical as all this may suggest . |
| 4 | In his summing up the judge said that the co-defendant 's plea of guilty was not the issue and the jury knew of it to make the background accurate . |
| 5 | The Treasury of 1943 was not skilled at arguing about economic theory or the details of national income statistics , but they felt that the new economic approach ignored practical problems which they , rather than the academic economists , were best qualified to judge . |
| 6 | Expression of Oct-2 was also studied by Northern analysis in the myeloma cell lines using an Oct-2 POU domain probe ( Figure 5b ) . |
| 7 | The POU domain of Oct-11 was originally isolated in a screen for novel POU domain genes expressed during spermatogenesis ( 30 ) . |
| 8 | The period of the Attlee governments of 1945–51 was particularly prone to retrospective retouching by the ideologically driven in the mid-1980s , as Paul Addison noted in the Preface to the second of his two outstanding studies of the 1940s : |
| 9 | Erm , and also the reason why Wilson could not actually read until the age of eleven was not due to the emotional er , problems of his father , it was due to a sort of a form of dyslexic er , th there 's a hell of a lot of debate about this , er , all these things just what er , Einstein is er , criticizing . |
| 10 | The legislation of 1861 was undoubtedly flawed , but it also set in train changes which affected most levels of Russian government and all levels of Russian society . |
| 11 | Section 6 of the Act of 1980 was substantially amended by section 30 of the Act of 1988 . |
| 12 | I was going to have one of each was n't I ? |
| 13 | In 1975/76 Chichester Harbour held internationally important populations of Brent Goose , Shelduck , Ringed Plover , Grey Plover , Black-tailed Godwit , Dunlin , and Sanderling , that is , the population of each was more than one per cent . |
| 14 | In such circumstances it is not surprising that the truce of 1396 was never properly observed . |
| 15 | The Ring of Eight was originally founded to dance at Christchurch Folk Festival but as well as dancing at festivals we also travel to craft fairs around the South of England and perform locally for the National Trust and other charities . |
| 16 | The other major issue of 1935 was also a non-event for the BUF . |
| 17 | The General Election of 1935 was largely conducted in response to this attitude . |
| 18 | The summer of 1925 was hardly the most propitious moment for the textile unions to make their stand against further wage reductions . |
| 19 | She thought now , she might be better to go and sit with Nan-Nan who had been Mama 's nurse but who in spite of that was not so very old . |
| 20 | The irony of that was n't lost on her . |
| 21 | There 's another cost of a million pounds which results from a change in government policy of the cost of government policy , now this is including the er unfair funding of G M schools and including the loss of that was just , just mentioned . |
| 22 | A lot of that was also due to the fact that we just did n't get into it , because of all the stuff got stolen after we 'd started and there was a big break of about five or six weeks when we could n't do anything . |
| 23 | The parties catered for such large numbers that ‘ it made it virtually impossible to police these events and it gave drug users and drug pushers maximum protection from the police — and all of that was quite deliberate . |
| 24 | The irony of that was almost enough to make Shannon laugh out loud . |
| 25 | In fact er they subsequently confirmed that the real truth of that was about half about two thousand er six hundred flights using , using Stansted , er , er , at the moment , erm the issue that , that leads us to is whether or not our transport should change er the er level of restrictions that they |
| 26 | Part of that was undoubtedly due to Ken . |
| 27 | I mean I think you all learnt from the one way system and the fiasco erm of that was actually there . |
| 28 | ‘ All of that was so long ago . |
| 29 | and the design of that was so that it will stay on , built in by design . |
| 30 | The ‘ Tall Ships ’ race which started from Tyneside in the summer of 1986 was perhaps the best indicator of this . |