Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even those who , like Julie and Felicity , were tolerant of the arts , were clearly aware that sciences were generally perceived as superior ; Julie , for example , noted that ‘ arts subjects do that just as well ’ , while Felicity went on |
| 2 | It does however , seem likely that working class wives were tolerant of occasional abuse , provided that husbands had what they considered ‘ just cause ’ . |
| 3 | Poland was surrounded by neighbours who were contemptuous of its existence and anything but trustworthy , and Poland treated them as such . |
| 4 | Discussion of them since 1962 had been frequent but hesitant : teachers , governors , parents in the various schools were apprehensive of large-scale and unpredictable change , and no firm decision was emerging . |
| 5 | The Danakil around Bilen were friendly , but were apprehensive of their formidable neighbours in Bahdu , who had raided them recently and inflicted many casualties . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) they were representative of different phases of the project ( years of funding ) ; |
| 7 | Both to armchair academics , and , though museum displays , to the population as a whole , objects were representative of the peoples of distant cultures . |
| 8 | Sir George Askwith , the Board of Trade 's Chief Industrial Commissioner , quickly persuaded Devonport to meet Harry Gosling and Harry Orbell , an influential official of the London Dockers , who were representative of both the executive of the Transport Workers ' Federation and the workers ' side of the Port of London Authority and to assure them that existing agreements would be maintained . |
| 9 | We do not know how far these findings are generalisable at a national level , but we are reasonably confident that the study practices were representative of the totality of fundholding practices in the Oxford region and that the fundholding and control practices were fairly well matched on those variables , such as distance from provider units , which might have affected referral patterns . |
| 10 | If she had spoken in charity to an unhappy invalid it had also been negligent of a larger truth : that they were representative of two very different principles — ; principles that might meet only in an hour of need , or in honest confrontation with one another . |
| 11 | Characters were always white , middle to upper class and were representative of the British ‘ stiff upper lip ’ and ‘ playing the game ’ attitudes . |
| 12 | Spenser 's iterations that England and Ireland were representative of a key conflict in an unfolding revelation of good and evil become familiarly established with readers who find Spenser 's terms repeated in similar patterns in other texts and different contexts . |
| 13 | There were no controls from non-malignant cases , but all specimens were well separated from the tumour , were normal on microscopy , and by all histological criteria were representative of normal gastric mucosa . |
| 14 | Asked if he thought the fans were representative of all supporters , he said : ‘ Tottenham has a following of 29,000 people I only saw 25 . ’ |
| 15 | Continued on Page 3 Continued from Page 1 Asked if he thought the fans demonstrating outside the court were representative of Spurs supporters , he said : ‘ Tottenham has a following of 29,000 people I only saw 25 . ’ |
| 16 | This would perhaps be a laudable idea if it were possible of accomplishment . |
| 17 | Early in 833 , rumours were rife of the political conjuncture Louis the Pious had most feared , and hitherto avoided : the alliance against him of all three adult sons . |
| 18 | Thank goodness neither Keininger nor The Londsdale Clock Co. of Swaffham , their agents , were guilty of the luxury of being rude to their customer . |
| 19 | They were guilty of lax marking as Scunthorpe took the lead from two crosses aimed without challenge , and weakened by Baker 's sending off in the 36th minute , a pathetic flourish of petulance . |
| 20 | Judged against the Mobilizing Ideal , therefore , both BBC-TV and ITV were guilty of failing to show enough enthusiasm for the government of the day . |
| 21 | Isabel Lavender felt uneasy , as though he were mocking and trying to get the better of her , as though she were guilty of something . |
| 22 | The Justices had power to seize for the king the bailiwicks of Forest wardens and foresters of fee who were guilty of misconduct in office , and on occasion removed unpaid Forest officers such as the verderers . |
| 23 | For they deny the existence of the pagan gods , of whom the Emperor was one ( so that they were guilty of treason as well as irreverence by refusing to acknowledge them ) . |
| 24 | I wonder how much JTR and his fellow Brother Brushes knew or understood of the genocide their land-owning peers were guilty of ? |
| 25 | He said ministers were guilty of ‘ an attitude of mind ’ which meant they think they did not have to bother about the public . |
| 26 | The Scots , as ever , were guilty of major duplicity . |
| 27 | There is no suggestion that Chief Whip Mr Ryder or his Whips Office colleagues were guilty of this particular brutish behaviour , but many other Euro rebels complained that they were mercilessly browbeaten to make them withdraw their opposition . |
| 28 | Sunderland won 1–0 and Murphy admitted : ‘ We were guilty of sloppy defending . |
| 29 | Although Self was accused by the headquarters engineers of bureaucratic interference , his own doubts about the policies being pursued by the chief engineer 's department crystallized into a conviction that they were guilty of unnecessarily over-centralised procedures , a view shared by many engineers in the divisions , though not by Hacking . |
| 30 | This outlined the basis of Leese 's claim that the Jews were guilty of ritual murder , which had led to his being charged with seditious libel in 1936 . |