Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and the others — when they let their capes fall open-were wearing one-piece outfits of a lighter and duller blue than their capes , with black boots and belts . |
| 2 | Crates of beer were stacked ready for consumption . |
| 3 | Only the barons , knights and free tenants were to enjoy these rights . |
| 4 | The aims of these were to curb indiscriminate outdoor relief ; if the poor were not sufficiently desperate to enter the workhouse they could not be really in need . |
| 5 | They were replenished each evening with barrels of muddy water brought from the lake on donkey carts . |
| 6 | Barrel vaults were developed first and remained satisfactory in the south where their immense thrust on the walls could be borne by the use of small windows to avoid weakening the structure . |
| 7 | Most of the Jokaero spy-flies were transmitting tiny facets of war 's aftermath within the city , a grim mosaic . |
| 8 | From school I knew this parable by heart , and I think the reader must have known it too , because as he reached the concluding sentences , his frail hands were already feeling for the embroidered marker and preparing to close the great heavy book , so that his eyes were not on the page but were gazing unseeing into mine as he spoke the final well-worn words , ‘ Then said Jesus unto him , ‘ Go , and do thou likewise . ’ ’ |
| 9 | These works were erected thirteen years ago , and being ultimately leased to the L & NWR Company , the present buildings were erected on a still larger scale . |
| 10 | Since they were erected four months ago , at a cost of ten thousand pounds , they 've been daubed with paint and stuffed with litter . |
| 11 | Quite a large sum of money was created partly out of existing funds ( of LEA ) which were to support in-service in schools that had been identified by some kind of functional group in the school … |
| 12 | Detectives were manning special hotline phones after a tape was broadcast on BBC 1 's Crimewatch UK in the hope that someone may recognise Britain 's most wanted man . |
| 13 | And they er er they said people getting on this train er it was on the eleven , platform eleven near to where we were make sure , they kept giving it out giving it out , you must get out at Leamington Spa if you want Banbury . |
| 14 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 15 | I fancy that across the channel where Napoleon 's wars were ravaging all Europe , our two innkeepers fell flat as pancakes , and were it not for the felicities of their translator they would scarcely be worth comment . |
| 16 | It was not a cause of poor economic performance ; it was yet another consequence of the attitudes which were shaping that performance . |
| 17 | On this were arranged thick candles in red glass jars , two vases of dahlias , a small plaster statue of Our Lady . |
| 18 | ‘ We passed outside the city walls , and after a little walk , entered ; i green garden door , and made our way to a little plain square building , in which were arranged wooden benches , a pulpit and below the pulpit a plain wooden table and chair . |
| 19 | Trips to Vienna were arranged this year to reward sales successes . |
| 20 | In the circumstances James Cunningham felt that Captain Robert Cunningham 's election hopes would be considerably strengthened if Morris were proven wrong , and accordingly advised Lord Milton that |
| 21 | Two people who were sacked eight years ago from the Government Communications Headquarters for refusing to leave their trade union , are continuing their campaign to get union rights reinstated . |
| 22 | According to Mr Gorman , one of the main grievances is the minimal redundancy packages given to the 67 Albion workers who were sacked two weeks ago : ‘ We will be pushing the case for adequate recompense for workers who lost their jobs . |
| 23 | Three of them were sacked last month , leaving Mark Franklin and Tony Dorie as hosts . |
| 24 | When 343 workers were sacked last February for going on strike over lay-offs and cuts in benefits ( 80% were women , some with 35 years of service ) , 270 others rushed to take their jobs . |
| 25 | A quiet that was close to let-down replaced the wild bustle of the preparation but they were enjoying each other 's company , the animal comfort of other presences , banishment of loneliness . |
| 26 | For the first time in history the Japanese people were enjoying real freedom rather than the autocracy and totalitarianism which they had suffered prior to August 1945 . |
| 27 | THE COMBINED Birmingham Railway Museum and Birmingham Mail ‘ Santa Specials ’ were enjoying good publicity and seat booking for the first two Sundays in December . |
| 28 | The sun now had a golden haze around it and the fields , the grass standing high and lush , were enjoying one last flurry of life before the frosts . |
| 29 | And so , now , just ten days after her return from Loch Lomond , all the garments and accessories were miraculously ready , and Shiona and her number two were enjoying one of their celebratory dinners . |
| 30 | Meanwhile less than 20 miles away , St Johnstone , a team with a less prestigious history were enjoying increased attendances , a newly won Premier status , record profits and were warmly ensconced in a purpose built all-seater stadium . |