Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er when the election , local elections were on of course , er er er i we were n not quite so friendly to each other , because er each had got candidates er contesting for the er for the same er for the one er particular seat . |
| 2 | James nodded to him as though for confirmation and then said loudly , ‘ Let us go to the Castle — ’ He became aware that the further reaches of the crowd were out of hearing and shouted at the top of his voice , ‘ Let us go — along to the Castle — and let us see — what John Menzies — will do about the Act ! ’ |
| 3 | The nearby Tompkins Square Park was dangerous , and walks by herself , Rosenberg told her , were out of the question . |
| 4 | Only Telford Tigers were out of the running . |
| 5 | They were out of line with the procedures of most socialist parties in Europe and the growing democracy within the trade union movement . |
| 6 | For pilgrims , the ritual prostrations and prayer-wheel-spinning were out of the question , because beggars blocked the shrine . |
| 7 | Unable to build upon a draw against England at Wembley and a victory over Poland at home , Wales , defeated 3-0 , were out of the World Cup . |
| 8 | But two budgets — 1979 , which included a doubling of the standard rate of VAT on many goods and services and 1981 , which was severely deflationary at a time when over two million were out of work — shocked a number of Cabinet ministers . |
| 9 | Having never had to face a situation of wholesale redundancies in the past , ICI 's policies for dealing with them were out of date and inadequate . |
| 10 | In 1977 Tanzania received thirty-five new diesel engines for the railway system under aid provided by Canada ; by 1982 seventeen of these were out of order and by 1988 rolling stock problems had reduced the once-daily service on the Chinese-built railway to Zambia ( opened in 1976 ) to just twice-weekly . |
| 11 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
| 12 | Costs everywhere were out of control . |
| 13 | Its rudder and fin were both knocked out , and a four-foot-long gash in the shell meant even repairs on the bank were out of the question , reinforcing complaints about the lack of driftwood clearance on the river this year . |
| 14 | Her defence , economic and political policies were out of tune with the spirit of the coming European decade . |
| 15 | By Texas we were out of control , doing 96 mph on the flat when the flashing light in the rear mirror pulled us over . |
| 16 | Four out of five of their rescue vehicles were out of commission for repairs or oil changes . |
| 17 | In verse and prose he was hell-bent on facing himself when things were out of joint ; the scalpel-probe is counterbalanced by the unlearned , incurious manner in which he found deepest ease and joy out of doors — a way of healing he had discovered early in life , although he did not consider himself a naturalist . |
| 18 | ‘ The table I write on , I say , exists , that is , I see and feel it ; and if I were out of my study I should say it existed , meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it . ’ |
| 19 | They stepped out across the moorland and the wind caught them , strong and cold , once they were out of the shelter of the wall . |
| 20 | In fact she always seemed more content when they were out of the village . |
| 21 | When they were out of sight , Mungo touched the golden glass ball for luck and went down to the yard . |
| 22 | But many anonymous individuals whose traits of basic humanity had not been eradicated even by years of Nazism revealed through small acts or gestures of kindness of sympathy that they were out of step with mainstream Nazi attitudes towards the Jews . |
| 23 | He says they do this ‘ to direct other horses to food and water , especially over distances where they were out of earshot and out of sight of each other ; or to split the herd in time of danger ’ . |
| 24 | Apart from that , the sooner we were out of there , the better . |
| 25 | Mr Tony Blair , Labour 's employment spokesman , said the rate of increase in the jobless total appeared to have slowed , but he said more were out of work than in virtually every other European Community country . |
| 26 | The limbs were out of proportion , and you could read the newspaper headlines under the thin red paint . |
| 27 | ‘ They were out of control , ’ said Mould calmly . |
| 28 | Industrial unrest followed , culminating in the great hand-loom weavers ' strike of 1825 , when 5,000 weavers and countless thousands of allied workers were out of work for three months . |
| 29 | It is clear that if the Hohenzollern candidature were out of the way , peace would be assured . |
| 30 | Two were out of contact because of physical distance : the fate of a Berwickshire couple who had emigrated to Australia was ‘ a mystery ’ , while even within the same county a Norfolk farm labourer 's parents were too far away to visit on foot , so the family ‘ hardly ever saw them . ’ |