Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now a subtle change was coming over the two hundred and fifty watching children in the audience . |
| 2 | Thus the political decision was taken to keep all five major steel plants in operation , including the distinctly vulnerable plant in Ravenscraig in Scotland . |
| 3 | COHQ 's plan avoiding a frontal assault was changed when direction of the raid passed to the Army 's UK Home Forces Command , after a political decision was made to replace the marines with Canadian forces . |
| 4 | Each caste was subdivided into jatis or subcastes , which in total number many thousands . |
| 5 | But that burglary was the clincher . |
| 6 | Neither sentence was carried out and , ironically , both of them ended their lives as virtual pensioners of the French colonial government . |
| 7 | Reliance was apparently placed — I say ‘ apparently ’ because there is nothing in the papers which indicates clearly one way or the other what the view of the justices ' clerk was on this subject — I am told that reliance was placed on section 8(3) which provides : ‘ For the purposes of this Act ‘ family proceedings ’ means any proceedings … ( b ) under the enactments mentioned in subsection ( 4 ) . ’ |
| 8 | This trend was partially reversed in the years after 1885 because many officials felt that the prison regime was too lenient and that flogging was the only effective deterrent to crime . |
| 9 | THE station 's prime economic function was as a reception and distribution point for goods of all kinds . |
| 10 | They were largely economic interest groups — that is , their economic function was not yet differentiated from their aesthetic function . |
| 11 | At the front of the building he gave me a nod and walked over to where a police sedan with a uniformed driver was waiting . |
| 12 | Probably , in terms of company drive , this product was the sacred cow of all sacred cows and yet the economic tide was flowing against us . |
| 13 | It is clear though that the economic tide was running very much in the party 's direction in 1915–16 ; in 1915 the first industrial tariffs for half a century were imposed , and by a Liberal Chancellor ; in 1916 even the Manchester Chamber of Commerce joined in the demand for industrial protection , causing the resignation of its chairman in protest at the abandonment of a century of belief in free trade . |
| 14 | Le Monde of Feb. 3 described the " sudden conversion " of Modrow ( who had previously stressed that reunification was not on the agenda ) as a response to rising popular pressure for reunification and to the continuing exodus of East Germans to West Germany . |
| 15 | In England , the complete technique was applied to serious music ; in September 1935 Elisabeth Schumann recorded both parts of the Evening Prayer from Humperdinck 's Hansel und Gretel . |
| 16 | When the Poles finally repulsed the Russian counter-attack , they sponsored an independent bourgeois republic , which in due course was recognized by Moscow . |
| 17 | With respect , I find this comment hard to follow in the light of the first of the questions asked in Reg. v. Lawrence and the answer to it , the passages from Viscount Dilhorne 's speech already cited , the fact that it was specifically argued ‘ appropriates is meant in a pejorative , rather than a neutral , sense in that the appropriation is against the will of the owner , ’ and finally that dishonesty was common ground . |
| 18 | With respect , I find this comment hard to follow in the light of the first of the questions asked in Reg. v. Lawrence and the answer to it , the passages from Viscount Dilhorne 's speech already cited , the fact that it was specifically argued ‘ appropriates is meant in a pejorative , rather than a neutral , sense in that the appropriation is against the will of the owner , ’ and finally that dishonesty was common ground . |
| 19 | Only his raging insanity was keeping him going . |
| 20 | It is apparent , therefore , that differentiation was made between male and female blood , and that circumcision , in its new casting , had some role to play in that context . |
| 21 | No regional funding was forthcoming . |
| 22 | However , total regional support was downgraded as both levels of support and areas granted regional status were reduced . |
| 23 | It would have been wrong to propose that subsidized admission to such schools should he offered to very bright pupils , at the same time that comprehension was being commended ( sometimes forcefully so ) to grammar schools . |
| 24 | In RENFE , by contrast , political manoeuvring was internalized within the organization , so that the management process itself was politicized . |
| 25 | The most striking instance was the 1976 Soweto uprising which was sparked off by secondary school pupils ' opposition to the authorities ' insistence that they learn certain subjects in Afrikaans , viewed by most black people as the language of the oppressor . |
| 26 | Following a meeting in early August between Sarney , Ferreira da Nóbrega and John Reed , chairman and chief executive of the US Citibank ( which as Brazil 's largest creditor was owed some $4,000 million ) , Ferreira da Nóbrega confirmed the government 's intention to continue to make the payment of debt interest dependent on the state of reserves , which it wanted to keep at a " safe " level of at least $6,000 million . |
| 27 | And the political assessment was that there would be another round of talks in the summer . |
| 28 | Shevardnadze visited the Abkhaz capital Sukhumi on Nov. 11 and assured local reporters that the new Georgian parliament was committed to ending the conflict as soon as possible . |
| 29 | Each division was assessed on each of these fourteen risk elements and compared , element by element , with the corresponding assessments made for the group as a whole . |
| 30 | The prevailing ethos was one of ‘ benevolent neglect ’ . |