Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the only company whose entire membership appears to have figured in the loan ; in the case of such as the Goldsmiths and the Ironmongers it seems clear that only the livery was assessed . |
| 2 | They were not , they were not dispensed with , well one could look back in seventy eight and say retrospectively how that process could have been started considerably earlier , er the honourable gentleman knows perfectly well that er as the Maastricht bill was winding its way through here it was n't really practical to run this but indeed the processes were started before the governing legislation was on the statute book and I quite understand why honourable gentlemen opposite wish to make their party points , particularly those particularly those who were not in the house in seventy eight which er does n't I think apply to the honourable gentleman from from Birmingham , when he knows perfectly well that the same kind of machinery is used now was used then and it was used as fairly and as honestly and as completely impartially as the time allowed . |
| 3 | I felt terrible and wanted some but only the Corporals were allowed it . |
| 4 | Over 50 people were killed in unrest across the country in the period Aug. 2-4 , although police said that it was not clear whether all the deaths were related to the strike . |
| 5 | I recently had a liver transplant at Addenbrooke 's Hospital and still feel guilty that inevitably the decision was made to give me a liver rather than someone else whose life expectancy may have been marginally longer . |
| 6 | A chance observer saw the sling being used by the second and soon the rumour was circulating that Paul Ross had used ‘ dubious tactics ’ on Prodigal Sons ( a later companion route to Deja Vu ) . |
| 7 | In the morning , she rose early and already the fires were lit and breakfast cooking on the range . |
| 8 | Three subsequent balloon dilations were unsuccessful and finally the patient was referred to our institution . |
| 9 | Approaching Heligoland the weather was obviously unsuitable and so the mission was abandoned and the aircraft went home . |
| 10 | Few men dared whistle or swear in the workings , for the little people would not tolerate that and indeed the men were expected to behave themselves sensibly . |
| 11 | Law had indeed already done enough as leader to make his departure unthinkable and so a memorial was drawn up by Carson and signed by almost all the party 's backbenchers , stating full confidence in Law and begging him to stay on with a revised tariff policy . |
| 12 | ‘ And during those two weeks in Grasmere , Mrs Moore became convinced that you would — ’ again the blank and again the word was conjured up between them like a spirit conjured from the mountain . |
| 13 | In Manchester , as in Scotland , it was a good night for Labour but overall the result was still devastating . |
| 14 | Not only were customary tenants in the West Country , for instance , powerless to resist rising fines , it is quite feasible that everywhere the land was , to a great extent , actually cultivated by leaseholders or tenants from year to year paying an economic rent . |
| 15 | I like to compare him with a footballing genius , putting through passes others are too slow to take , and making moves that would be brilliant if only the rules were different . |
| 16 | This second bid avoided reference to the MMC and thus the way was open for a contested takeover battle between Guinness and Argyll for control of Distillers . |
| 17 | The fact that this extra testing can produce extra diagnoses implies that a proportion of those cases diagnosed as NGU would turn out to be trichomonal if only the organism were adequately looked for . |
| 18 | Indeed , in the first series of patients only 72% were bleeding from varices , haemostatic treatment was not uniform and only a minority were treated with sclerotherapy . |
| 19 | The West saw revolution coming through military struggle , misunderstanding that the appeal of Communism was sociological and thus the struggle was political . |
| 20 | The marshes of Essex , he said , were so right-wing that even the newsagents were white . |
| 21 | Bhattarai met with the King on May 15 and afterwards a statement was issued from the Royal Palace explaining that the drafting committee had been abolished . |
| 22 | Originally the horns were lyre-shaped and traditionally the animals were horn-tethered . |
| 23 | The fire which had started early that morning must have been very fierce as only the walls were left standing and from the ruins there was that horrible fire-damp smell which pervades the site for weeks after such an occurrence . |
| 24 | As far as the army was concerned , I had been told in October 1945 that effectively the matter was ended with the presumption of death . |