Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such direct communication , if not with Hitler , might have summoned German naval reinforcements , but no aircraft was available north of Trondheim , more than 400 miles and two flying hours to the south , because all the northern airfields early that spring were operational only for transport aircraft fitted with skis . |
| 2 | It would be a welcome change , however , if the revenue were large enough for RWC to fund its own tournaments and to allow the ‘ minnows ’ of world rugby to stay at a decent hotel within 45 minutes drive of civilisation during the high-point of their rugby lives ( see pages 38 & 39 ) . |
| 3 | When it came to slanging matches against Greycoats the Gasworks were well ahead on points ; in examinations and suchlike boring rubbish the Gasworks were quite happy for Greycoats to take precedence . |
| 4 | High conductance ( about 155 pS ) K channels were active spontaneously in 17% of cell attached or excised inside out patches in non-stimulated subconfluent HGT-1 cells . |
| 5 | The gnarled shapes were unmistakable even in semi-darkness . |
| 6 | This level of command was fixed ie as General Dwight Eisenhower you would not be expected to fly planes into combat , nor as the jockey of a M1 Abrams tank could you try and effect changes in grand strategy . |
| 7 | Firstly , in addition to looking for a general description of the information available in the films , this study was concerned particularly with information which is related to risks and potential risks in the scenes . |
| 8 | The snow was general all over Rummidge , she mused , playing variations on a famous passage by James Joyce to divert herself . |
| 9 | ‘ Until recently the NSA was concerned only with music and wildlife , ’ explains pioneering oral historian and NLSC director Paul Thompson . |
| 10 | I was an incurable romantic and yearned for a romantic friendship before it would be too late , for I believed in those days that romantic friendship was possible only in youth . |
| 11 | Talks with government leaders in each of the countries were concerned mainly with trade issues , the future of Antarctica , relations with China in the wake of the suppression of the pro-democracy movement , arms control , the crisis in the Middle East , environmental issues and a range of bilateral issues . |
| 12 | Certainly the children admitted to the first asylums were those most in need . |
| 13 | Yet if there was one principle to which classical ( and even post-classical ) law had held fast , it was that trusts were actionable only in personam . |
| 14 | The amateur scene was successful enough for Willie , though . |
| 15 | Historically , the law of rape was concerned particularly with theft of virginity , reflecting a preoccupation with the protection of virgins from rape , abduction and forced marriage . |
| 16 | Who else but the American Princess was good enough for Havvie ? |
| 17 | Fraud in commercial companies was close behind at £473 million , followed at some distance by the general public , including investors , at £230 million . |
| 18 | The pre-Columbian school cites evidence from ancient bones in Europe and North Africa to show that syphilis was extant long before Columbus 's expeditions . |
| 19 | Only Korea was close enough to Japan to command a formal relationship of any significance , but this , too , was virtually halted during the Tokugawa period , when the kingdom of Korea , like Japan , adopted a seclusion policy . |
| 20 | ROSS was impressed too with England 's performances in recent months and felt they scored some superb tries . |
| 21 | It used to be the law that orders for certiorari and prohibition were available only against decision-makers who had a duty to act judicially . |
| 22 | The stones edging the flower beds were dark now with rain . |
| 23 | But the two ideas were similar enough for Darwin to feel very apprehensive when Wallace 's paper arrived . |
| 24 | The French horsemen were close enough for Sharpe to see their cadenettes , the pigtails which framed each man 's face as a mark of distinction Their equipment looked good and new , and their horses were well fed . |
| 25 | One reason for the previous misrepresentation of the logical abilities of such social groups is that the tests carried out to assess such abilities were unreliable both in method and in conception . |
| 26 | Pinkie said nothing about this because he was dazed by gin , and was not paying , and Richard said nothing because , after a little thought , he concluded that the wine was good enough for Pinkie . |
| 27 | For the purpose of this investigation , we studied those patients with a biopsy proven adenocarcinoma of the distal tubular oesophagus , in whom columnar epithelium of the oesophagus above the carcinoma was visible macroscopically at endoscopy , meeting the above definition of Barrett 's oesophagus . |
| 28 | Recovery was due mainly to improvements by Netherlands subsidiary Logica BV , both as a result of its reduced headcount and improved sales performance . |
| 29 | This dissociation of process and outcome was evident also amongst Solihull secondary teachers , whose attitudes towards this aspect of SSE was also moderately positive . |
| 30 | If a fish was receptive enough to electricity to pick up any tiny currents induced in its body , they would provide an additional guide to the Earth 's magnetic field . |