Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In RENFE , by contrast , political manoeuvring was internalized within the organization , so that the management process itself was politicized . |
| 2 | You felt that if the right component was put into the equation it could help tackle them all . ’ |
| 3 | The plaintiff was allowed to sue a second defendant , whose possible liability was revealed in the report more than three years after the accident . |
| 4 | This was an area planted by Maria Theresa with Swabians , and their Teutonic orderliness was stamped on the villages and homesteads enclosed by ornate wooden gateways . |
| 5 | The duration of palliative response was measured from the time that the response was first observed until a significantly lower score was obtained on two successive measurements . |
| 6 | In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries this reforming enthusiasm was channelled into the foundation of Orders more oriented towards service of the whole community — the mendicant Dominicans and Franciscans were travelling preachers and the Augustinian Canons ( known as Austin Friars ) were committed to lives of pastoral service . |
| 7 | An enclosed glazed cabin was provided for the pilot and co-pilot , and a specious interior allowed for a navigation compartment complete with chart table , a wireless cabin , canteen , galley and sleeping berths . |
| 8 | The liberal working majority was based on the votes of the suplentes ( the substitute deputies for occupied districts and Spanish America , elected under radical pressure at Cadiz ) . |
| 9 | Some steps against pluralism were taken at the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 , but an altogether more far-reaching measure was promulgated at the Council of Lyons in 1274 . |
| 10 | Whether or not one regards this as a prime example of the way in which a political settlement was undercut by the optimism of those Frenchmen who believed in a military solution it should also be pointed out , as Irving does , that ‘ Any policy which might have been construed as the abandonment of Indo-China would have been rejected by the National Assembly in 1947 , if not by an overwhelming majority , then at least by a decisive one ’ but this , in turn , did nothing to resolve the US dilemma . |
| 11 | The body of the pregnant housewife was found near the M-50 motorway after her car broke down on the hard shoulder . |
| 12 | A possible framework was provided by the 24 countries of the OECD in 1986 . |
| 13 | A complete remission was defined as the resolution of clinical , radiological , and endoscopic evidence of disease . |
| 14 | The observations made so far may be summed up in terms of four historical phases throughout which Hellenic creativity was dominated by the two impulses . |
| 15 | He advocated the combined system and regretted that , at the very moment when state aid was going to be available for the education of the deaf and dumb for the first time , oral teaching was recommended by the Report of the Royal Commission . |
| 16 | In fact , a not guilty verdict was recorded on the judge 's direction at Liverpool Crown Court after Mr Williams , 40 , denied the offence . |
| 17 | I remember with horror a meeting in our village hall at which boy-scoutish enthusiasm was shown for the knot-tying , camp-fire , make-do-and-mend fun to be had out of getting things going again after the bomb . |
| 18 | A band outside began to play the " Marseillaise " and iced champagne was served for the guests to toast the emperor and the New Year . |
| 19 | The soporific calm of the drowsy afternoon was shattered by the bell indicator above the kitchen door . |
| 20 | Wemicke ( 1874 ) confirmed this and showed that auditory comprehension was linked to the left hemisphere . |
| 21 | No additional colonic preparation was used on the morning of the study , and the patients fasted for at least five hours before colonoscopy . |
| 22 | An order for parental responsibility was granted to the father and contact orders were made . |
| 23 | In the Soviet Union the gulf between constitutional principle and political practice was explained by the central role of the CPSU . |
| 24 | The dry dock was relinquished to the foreman in 1894 and Dowson lived in Brittany , principally in Pont Aven . |
| 25 | Rovers ' reserve side was admitted to the Pontins second division at a special meeting at the expense of Wigan Athletic . |
| 26 | This regional reorganization was presented by the military government as a devolution of power away from the centre and as therefore a move towards resolving the conflict between the predominantly Moslem north and the largely non-Moslem south . |
| 27 | A second Expeditionary Force was despatched across the Channel to France , but it WAS forced to return to Britain almost immediately because the French government asked Germany for an armistice , on 17th . |
| 28 | The sense of comic opera or mini tragedy was reinforced by the fact that at the March meeting the Shetland Islands Council received a letter from the Scottish Office , indicating that as ministers would not be able to deal with the issue ‘ for quite some considerable time ’ , could not the Shetland Islands Council sort out the matter ? |
| 29 | Flexibility on the Pakistani side was shown by the Pakistani Foreign Minister 's recognition of the Soviet Union 's ‘ legitimate interest in expecting that any Government in Kabul should be friendly towards it and should be mindful of its security interests ’ . |
| 30 | The costumes were for the most part composed of homespun cloth of native dye , though now and again gay neckerchiefs — the manufacture of the south country — gave liveliness to the head ; while now and again a bright-coloured shawl was pinned across the shoulders of the women . |