Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] was [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some political activists concluded from this that what was needed was to ‘ empower the poor ’ , encourage their civic and political participation as a way to redress the balance , give them the strength to organize in such a way as to make effective claims on society , to receive those citizen 's rights to which they were said to be entitled . |
| 2 | It was clear that he was attracted to her . |
| 3 | Before us she made it clear that she was faced with an appalling dilemma . |
| 4 | A report of the work was typed by the school secretary but its informal style and the sometimes cryptic references to individual children make it clear that it was intended for internal circulation only . |
| 5 | It is not very clear whether section 17(2) adds a third element or is subsumed in ( b ) , but it is clear that it was intended to be more difficult to obtain an interlocutory injunction in trade dispute cases than in others . |
| 6 | When the offence of obstructing a constable was first enacted by Parliament , it seems reasonably clear that it was intended to refer to physical obstruction only . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , problems still remain with regard to delivery and it seems that in the case of an individual delivery will still be necessary as the old law still applies , with the result that a document will be treated as delivered when it is clear that it was intended by one of the parties that he was to be bound by the terms of the document . |
| 8 | The chances are almost two-to-one that he was brought up in a fatherless household . |
| 9 | Oblivious to her injuries , Thomas Duke would have carried his daughter back to their cottage in his arms , though it is conceivable that she was carried on an old door or something . |
| 10 | However , I thought that it was wrong , very , very wrong that he was picked for Stuttgart on the strength of those two races . |
| 11 | This series was so popular that it was repeated in the same year . |
| 12 | I was afraid that I was lost in the snow . ’ |
| 13 | That was not too bad but , like most ideas ahead of their time , I am afraid that it was voted down by 182 votes to 170 . |
| 14 | The list of issues which the group came up with was so detailed that it was discussed over the following weeks . |
| 15 | Another theory says that Jesus was only apparently human , another that he was adopted by God when he died , and still another that his body was human but his personality was divine . |
| 16 | Their joints were swollen with rheumatism , their eyes were dimmed with years , to a man they were short of breath and their hands trembled ; one old gentleman believed himself to be again taking part in the French wars , another that he was encamped before Sebastopol . |
| 17 | What fraction would you get out of this if it was shared between two of us ? |
| 18 | I sought the help of the Public Bill on this and I was referred to erm Statutes i in force . |
| 19 | The greybeards made a quite unnecessary fuss about this and I was forced to employ my stout stick . |
| 20 | Their style was exceptionally clear and one was carried along in the unfolding of an argument which seemed as majestically inevitable as the development of a Bach fugue . |
| 21 | Furiously Kate tried to wriggle herself free until she was warned quite unmistakably that Ace found her movements provocatively exciting . |
| 22 | Yet , while the pregnancy might have been unplanned and she was destined to be a single parent , termination had never once been considered . |
| 23 | It was thus a revolution in British fiscal policy which Chamberlain advocated in the name of Empire ; and from his Birmingham speech in May 1903 until he was struck down three years later his advocacy of tariff reform and his Imperial theme dominated British policies . |
| 24 | Midge had known the moment she saw them that something was wrong and she was hurt by Patrick 's announcement that he was going to pack up his things . |
| 25 | He was very confused , his body temperature was high and he was dehydrated . |
| 26 | ‘ Nobody 's Twisting Your Arm ’ , ‘ I 'm Not Always So Stupid ’ , ‘ Do n't Laugh ’ and ‘ Nothing Comes Easy ’ all expressed negative sentiments in their titles but Gedge did not realise this until it was pointed out . |
| 27 | Nothing much came of this until he was summoned to an interview at the Foreign Office with Kenneth Cohen , an MI6 officer he had known in Hamburg . |
| 28 | I was at the local convent school from twelve to eighteen years old and I was considered clever but ‘ strange ’ . |
| 29 | I discovered the Messiah when I was sixteen years old and I was overwhelmed by the sheer beauty and grandeur of Handel 's enduring masterpiece . |
| 30 | The royal physician dressed the corpse for buried and it was interred eleven days later at Jedburgh . |