Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were due to try out the show at Farnham , a 400-seater theatre , less than an hour from London . |
| 2 | The appeal hinged on an earlier ruling that magistrates were right to throw out the case of a man accused of failing to provide samples because the sheet was ‘ bad for duplicity ’ . |
| 3 | Even if it were possible to model accurately the supply and demand responses to changes in taxes and transfer or benefit provisions of all kinds , it would remain a GNP or market calculation . |
| 4 | We were interested to see how the hierarchical model would scale up , given better input data than that used in the ARPA project . |
| 5 | Their spokesman said that the men were prepared to close down the generating plant immediately , but it would mean that the grid would go and that factories and hospitals would be without power for an indefinite time . |
| 6 | In the new activity of urban reconstruction , plans were prepared to sweep away the inadequacies of the past and heal the scars of war damage . |
| 7 | ‘ A democracy would cease to function if every individual were free to obey only the laws of his or her choice . |
| 8 | By the time I got up the next morning , I had determined to sell the baker 's shop to the highest bidder unless Charlie Trumper were willing to take on the responsibility himself . |
| 9 | Chapman insisted , too , that his players should have decent club conditions , and the Highbury dressing-rooms were rated the best in the country at a time when most clubs were content to provide only the most spartan of facilities for changing and cleaning . |
| 10 | were incompetent , erm the people who were supposed to bring up the recording thing at the station meeting did n't . |
| 11 | Other writers were quick to point out the inherent functionalism of this approach . |
| 12 | But these were a minority , and when the question of a postwar American loan to Britain arose later in 1945 US Congressmen were quick to ask why the United States should subsidize " too much Socialism at home and too much damned imperialism abroad " . |
| 13 | Friday was national Trading Places Day and housing staff at East Hampshire District Council were quick to take up the challenge . |
| 14 | Engineers were quick to shore up the weakened Botley Road Flyover in Oxford as soon as they found corroded support wires in the spans . |
| 15 | They were glad to get out the houses I think . |
| 16 | If a given investment project within the domain of operation of capitalist enterprises were considered desirable as part of an investment plan ( to satisfy a definite ‘ social need ’ , to gain export revenue , to develop a ‘ growth industry ’ , to preserve employment ) and yet the capitalist enterprises concerned were unwilling to invest then the investment planning authorities would have two broad options : either nationalise the enterprises and force them to invest on criteria other than those of profitability , or ‘ distort ’ the market to render the project sufficiently profitable to appeal to the enterprises . |
| 17 | Most of the class were happy to write out the 24 ways for themselves or start on five buttons . |
| 18 | Having no foothold on power , they could offer no inducements to moderate reformism ; they were unable to hold out the prospect of even limited concessions to peasants and workers . |
| 19 | On May 7th , German troops massing at Thiaumont for an attack were suddenly blanketed by accurate air-directed artillery fire , and noted bitterly that , virtually for the first time , their fighters were unable to drive away the French observation planes . |
| 20 | We were unable to explore systematically the electrical control activity in the postprandial state because of the patients intolerance to food . |
| 21 | Furthermore , the mutated oligonucleotides were unable to compete out the complexes formed by the wild type sequences , even when a 500 molar excess of competitor was used ( data not shown ) , reinforcing the conclusion that the protein-DNA complexes were mediated by the mutated guanine residues . |
| 22 | In this , the statement by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission ( ARCIC ) II , ‘ Salvation and the Church ’ , is a major breakthrough because theologians from the Roman Catholic and Anglican Communions were able to state together the ‘ once-for-all ’ offering of Christ on the cross , and that we are not saved by good works but for good works . |
| 23 | They left Kabrit on 20 November and for the first stage of the journey were able to bowl down the coast road as far as Agedabia , by then firmly in British hands . |
| 24 | Civil war was averted , but while the 120-strong squadron of cavalry were able to hold back the rioters in Aÿ , they were unwilling to engage their fellow citizens in open conflict and failed to prevent the mob from sacking and burning the premises of Ayala , Bissinger and Deutz & Geldermann in Aÿ . |
| 25 | As Prince and Starky told their followers to sell their lands and give them the money , in 1849 they were able to set up the Agapemone , the ‘ Abode of Love ’ , on land they had bought in the village of Spaxton , near Charlynch . |
| 26 | With the aid of the LFS we were able to examine further the extent to which members of the temporary labour force in the hotel and catering industry were working on that basis because they had been unable to find permanent jobs , and to what extent they were doing so because they did not want permanent jobs . |
| 27 | The DHAC had softened up the Unionists by publicising the housing situation in Derry and causing embarrassment for the Stormont government , but it was the Nationalists , as elected representatives , who were able to press home the advantage and force the concessions . |
| 28 | The dense blackness lifted a little and they were able to pick out the skyline and the dim glow of white-edged pavements and white-ringed lampposts . |
| 29 | So important was this and so adept the participants that the farmers-general and the Van Necks were able to persuade both the French and British governments to permit the continued shipment of British tobacco to France during the wars of 1744–8 and 1756–63 . |
| 30 | In this way many fans were able to miss out the first graduation step and serve a short probation at the back of the terrace . |