Example sentences of "[was/were] [indef pn] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We expected to have security problems with Mrs Thatcher , but in fact they were nothing compared with those posed by the other guest on that show — Barry Manilow . |
| 2 | The dark stormclouds overhead were nothing compared to the ominous light now shining in Julius 's eyes . |
| 3 | And there were plenty left over for everyone else to have a taste , too . |
| 4 | On 20 May , a second powerful nuee swept through St Pierre , flattening many of the ruins left by its predecessor , but taking no lives — there were none left to take . |
| 5 | There were none left now . |
| 6 | ‘ There were none left , ’ he protested but Mum had moved on and Linda Paterson was grinning all over her face . |
| 7 | It is true that , characteristically , he was about to cadge a lift ; but lift or no lift , most elevated academics of those ( and these ) days when accosted by some unknown student would look at him as if he were something deposited on the pavement in contravention of the local by laws . |
| 8 | It would seem fair to conclude that while for the bulk of the population Hitler 's image was no doubt related in an abstract fashion to finding a ‘ solution to the Jewish Question ’ , this was an issue which people either gave little thought to or deliberately turned their minds from , and that , correspondingly , Hitler 's public attacks on the Jews were something absorbed with little deliberation , forming no central part in explaining either the high peaks of his popularity or the collapse of the ‘ Führer myth ’ in the last years of the war . |
| 9 | A silence developed , as if there were something left to say . |
| 10 | Zaidie and Matadial were the most important Crown witnesses to the facts , or alleged facts , which preceded and followed the shooting and the statements were one made by Zaidie to the police on 12 January 1987 , the day after the shooting , one by Matadial on the same day and an addendum by Matadial made on 9 May 1987 . |
| 11 | Were one permitted one confident prediction , it would be of the likelihood of an increasingly oppressive authority in areas of urban desolation . |
| 12 | However , whilst searching through various books in my library , I chanced upon my copy of Folklore , Myths and Legends of Britain and wondered if there were anything mentioned about the Silbury Hill area that I had been writing about . |
| 13 | And there had been that other message … she had rung Cartier to speak to someone called Michael Watney , only to be told that there was no-one called Michael Watney working there , and did she mean Michael Courteny , and if so , would she hold on ? |
| 14 | ‘ First they came for the Jews , then they came for the communists , then they came for the trade unionists , then they came for me ’ , he repeats over a silky , mesmeric House groove , gradually adding a line each time , until he gets to ‘ and there was no-one left to speak up for me ’ . |
| 15 | There was nothing done to correct it . |
| 16 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 17 | There was nothing said about the transfer . |
| 18 | This was the reason for the comments in Evans , but there was nothing said in Evans against making a second order on a later occasion which would take the total above 240 hours when added to the original order , but would not do so when added to the hours yet to be worked under it . |
| 19 | ‘ I heard from a third party that Billy Bingham had left me out because of indiscipline , but there was nothing said at the time and he has not spoken to me since . ’ |
| 20 | If I had trouble with the health unions on contracting out , it was nothing compared with my problems on manpower numbers . |
| 21 | But that was nothing compared with what was to follow . |
| 22 | Chilly as it was , it was nothing compared to the day little Rizla came kicking into a snowy world of white . |
| 23 | They said that denying the sexual urge was nothing compared to dealing with the male and female cross-currents that sweep through a marriage . |
| 24 | Mucking out and feeding the beasts , although a chore , was nothing compared to actually getting on top of them , entrusting one 's breakable frame to such unreliable support . |
| 25 | Understandably , Kendall could hardly contain himself , but it was nothing compared to the way he celebrated Peter Beardsley 's winner six minutes from the end . |
| 26 | If Constance thought she was learning things about Ludovico , it was nothing compared with what he was gleaning from her . |
| 27 | If the noise from the uninhibited , cheering , stamping , singing 8,3000 crowd had felt intimidating to Sampras when the fourth set score reached 5–3 and he was also trailing by two sets to one , it was nothing compared to the tumult during the changeover after the American had held the 9th game to 15 , with an ace . |
| 28 | The odd game of faro and whist was nothing compared with the kisses she shared with the marquis . |
| 29 | What Richard had done was nothing compared to the havoc that Rourke had created within her . |
| 30 | When I listen to him now , gung-ho for Delorsism , I can only reflect that Saul on the road to Damascus was nothing compared to Neil on the autoroute to Brussels . |