Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this was welcomed as showing that a ‘ majority ’ of the public were opposed to allowing children to die , it is a sad comment on the public 's understanding of mental and physical handicap that almost two-fifths thought that this was acceptable . |
| 2 | This was interpreted as indicating that at the lower inter.stimulus intervals employed ( 5 and 50 msec. ) both hemispheres have access to a short-lived visual trace ( i.e. the icon ) but once the trace decays the right hemisphere has preferential access to , or operates more efficiently on , some more stable representation of the stimulus . |
| 3 | This is no doubt because it is the Government which would , on the hypothesis that section 47 was invalid because inconsistent with article 30 , have failed to take the necessary steps to ensure that section 47 was amended or repealed as necessary . |
| 4 | The ‘ impressive and general ’ wording of Article 23 was seen as demonstrating that the Convention would not have been a proper vehicle for a treaty which would have done the barely conceivable by giving other countries control over American litigation . |
| 5 | The very existence of Article 23 was regarded as indicating that the Convention was not mandatory , on the rather tortuous argument that if the Convention had been intended to replace the broad discovery powers previously exercised by the United States , acceptance of Article 23 ( which enables other States to refuse to operate the Convention in this area ) ‘ would have been most anomalous ’ . |
| 6 | The assailants made off on motor-cycles , but one of the two was captured and identified as Abd al-Shafi Ramadan , a 25 year-old fishmonger and reportedly a member of a Cairo cell of the al-Jihad organization which had been responsible for the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and the killing of the Speaker of the People 's Assembly , Rifaat al-Mahgoub , in October 1990 . |