Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( A headteacher friend was aghast to discover that his infant child had spent a fortnight rehearsing to be a road ! ) |
| 2 | She arrived with twenty minutes to spare before her train was due to leave but , after she had queued for a ticket , was only just in time to catch it . |
| 3 | No , it was n't transport related , I knew that my , my group , because everybody was placed in a certain group by age and , er I knew that I was due to go and I thought oh well this is hanging around you sort of wanted to get on with it . |
| 4 | A court was due to decide whether to send Bousquet for trial . |
| 5 | The Supreme Court was due to rule whether he must face impeachment proceedings on corruption charges . |
| 6 | It was not possible to confirmthat the immunoreactive signal in serum was due to APGPR but the immunoreactive signal in urine coeluted with synthetic APGPR . |
| 7 | She realised that she still had fifteen minutes before the meeting was due to start and on an impulse she rang Paul . |
| 8 | when she was due to come and she 's still got a very bad chest |
| 9 | A few days later , when Churchill invited Attlee to accompany him to the Potsdam conference — which was due to meet before the election result would be known — Harold Laski , as chairman of the National Executive , warned Attlee publicly that he should go ‘ in the role of observer only ’ , because Labour would expect to have a distinctive foreign policy thereafter . |
| 10 | It was absurd to imagine that a modern city could still evoke that kind of magic ! |
| 11 | And it was absurd to think that , by closing down such establishments , prostitution would diminish . |
| 12 | It was pleasant to lie and think of other Februaries and see himself abroad at dusk in the fields under a chilling rain , standing in a cart hunched up against the storm , bending and rising and bending again to toss turnips to the streaming cattle , listening to their soft thud in the mud and the straining of the horse as his hooves sucked and sank , the cattle lowing plaintively and the sharp crunch of their scooping teeth . |
| 13 | It was pleasant to know that that fact had been noted among the critical young gentlemen who comprised , as far as it could be done , Edwin 's set . |
| 14 | The family 's hopes that Caroline was alive slumped when her visa expired three weeks ago . |
| 15 | Where work was available near home it was rural based and by choice farmers ' sons and part-time farmers sought to be self-employed to allow a greater flexibility for the farm work . |
| 16 | So it was strange to realise that the image I found most subversive in this exhibition remains firmly within the logic of embroidery . |
| 17 | It was strange to think that he had once been young . |
| 18 | It was strange to think that none of them knew that Arabella was dead ; her absence made no difference to their lives . |
| 19 | It was strange to think that if there were creatures smaller than nomes , little people perhaps the size of ants , her own face might look like that . |
| 20 | Salvidge was right to claim that Leith had overstepped the mark and that he had no mandate for his action , but it is clear that he rather than Salvidge really represented the views of the National Union . |
| 21 | I have no doubt that the wishes of a 16- or 17-year-old child or indeed of a younger child who is ‘ Gillick competent ’ are of the greatest importance both legally and clinically , but I do doubt whether Thorpe J. was right to conclude that W. was of sufficient understanding to make an informed decision . |
| 22 | By doing so he was guilty of unlawful eviction and , accordingly , the judge in the court below was right to conclude that this was a case in which the tenant , on her counterclaim , was entitled to damages under section 28 of the Housing Act 1988 . |
| 23 | And I think it was right to argue that the book has its ‘ strict disclaimers ’ and that goodness of heart , chiefly Jenny 's , is defensively displayed amid a welter of misconduct . |
| 24 | While Professor R. T. McKenzie was right to argue that the common purpose of winning elections and of maintaining a government in power imposes or produces an almost identical power structure in the parties , it is wrong to infer from this that the atmosphere within the parties is the same . |
| 25 | 14–16 ) was right to say that it was only with the Peloponnesian War that the real migration from country to city took place . |
| 26 | Therefore , while absence may spell the end of acquaintanceship , it will not in itself destroy friendship ; and while Dr Johnson was right to say that we should keep our friendships in good repair , the perpetual shoring up of friendship might suggest that it were less enduring than we had supposed . |
| 27 | My hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool , West Derby was right to say that we are witnessing the creation not simply of a free market in Europe , but a free market which is linked to the Delors principles and will ensure proper working conditions and adequate social provision . |
| 28 | I agree with the hon. Gentleman that every conceivable thing that can be done should be done to ensure that the applicant — the hon. Gentleman was right to say that he may be old and slightly confused — is assisted in filling out the forms . |
| 29 | The Leader of the House was right to say that there were many who said , in giving evidence to the Committee which he set up , that they think it right that Bills should be the subject of timetables . |
| 30 | Shadow Heritage Secretary Bryan Gould said he was right to quit as he could no longer perform his duties . |