Example sentences of "was [adj] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heather was due to return to this country within days of your visit to Profitis Bias , was n't she ? ’ |
| 2 | Many other contributions were of interest ! but it was strange to look on this picture and on that — to see on the same walls so many poor efforts at painting alongside of chef-d'oeuvres of artistic power . |
| 3 | Spurgeon was right to say to that lady who left his church to join a church she felt was perfect : ‘ Well , Madam , when you find your perfect church do n't join it — you 'll only spoil it ! ’ |
| 4 | My father wished me to try for a history scholarship and I occasionally read as hard as it was possible to do without any interest in history beyond the attempt to memorize facts … . |
| 5 | Was that to move to another council house ? |
| 6 | Peter Samuel of Kingfisher was prepared to insist on such restraint clauses when necessary . |
| 7 | And she was prepared to go to any lengths to get what she wanted — and almost always succeeded . |
| 8 | To fulfil this ambition he was prepared to go to any lengths , no matter how underhand or devious they might be . |
| 9 | The limit to which the RCM was prepared to go in this matter was revealed in March 1939 , when Grunpeter was told that his salary was to be held to £2 a week , a sum ‘ which will make it impossible to continue my work at the camp as resident minister ’ . |
| 10 | So now Theodora looked across at the Inspector , wondering just how much she was prepared to say to this man . |
| 11 | My Lords , I found a very interesting er aspect in the Royal College of Nursing 's review was that resources were not the issue , the Royal College itself came down in favour of the fact that it was management that needed to be tightened up and My Lords it was interesting looking at that survey that it was a telephone survey and in one of the two hospitals er one or two of the hospitals that were rung up , it was quite difficult to find the person who 'd answered the survey . |
| 12 | She might not have kissed him , but for the moment he knew he was willing to settle for that message : I love you — I think . |
| 13 | This left open the possibility of further Kindertransporte from countries threatened by Germany , but in the first months of the war no one was willing to engage in such defeatist speculation . |
| 14 | He was the man she wanted to be with for the rest of her life and she was willing to jump through any hoop and over any hurdle to win him . |
| 15 | Wendling had a Dutch friend , an amateur flautist , who was willing to pay for some flute music — three concertos and two quartets . |
| 16 | But if that was what Adams wanted , well , he was willing to clutch at any straw . |
| 17 | J. McL on Arran — and there was another to come on another Ramble . |
| 18 | The Scribes ( i.e. the Doctors of the Law ) and Pharisees complained that Jesus was wrong to eat in such company . |
| 19 | Was this painted by this chap you got hold of or |
| 20 | Maybe it 's sunk now — it was tiny compared to that boat . |
| 21 | By the time of the May Day ‘ celebrations ’ of 1990 there was much writing on many walls . |
| 22 | He had an unpleasant grating laugh and Stephen felt anyway that it was unseemly to laugh in these circumstances . |
| 23 | In the Ukraine , it was impossible to adhere to this principle . |
| 24 | England came away from Australia shaking their heads and saying that it was impossible to defend against those moves . |
| 25 | This again was impossible to calculate for those theses which had received only one citation . |
| 26 | It was hard to believe in such luck . |
| 27 | She did n't know ; it was hard to tell with this man ; she could never see what he was thinking . |
| 28 | She hoped a fortnight was enough : she knew it was supposed to take about that length of time to get over chicken-pox , but perhaps it was more serious for adults . |
| 29 | In parliament it was difficult to adjust to the new situation , whereby the party was supposed to abstain from all criticism of the government but had no say in its decisions . |
| 30 | I should have thought that , in the abstract , no one was likely to quarrel with that statement . |