Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English were in for a shock . |
| 2 | Some were up to an inch wide and ten or eleven inches long . |
| 3 | For whilst other industries could relatively easily dispose of their waste materials , this was out of the question for most of the nuclear industry 's leftovers . |
| 4 | This was out of the question . |
| 5 | Well they 've got the depot at Rochdale which services up to Blackpool and this was out on a limb . |
| 6 | This was out in the street afterwards . ’ |
| 7 | Of the seats , 5% deviated from the electoral quota by 20% ( though this was down from the 39% of seats that had deviated by that much on the 1982 register . ) |
| 8 | There was just because there was n't enough money within all unions , not forget that there was n't such a thing as a T U C then , this was in at the infancy when the unions first started , there was n't such as a T U C , Trades Unions Congress . |
| 9 | ‘ As I was saying , ’ Patrick Milligan continued , once his youngest was out of the house , ‘ if the best came to the best , and your sister married the old codger , we could be in clover . |
| 10 | Wimpey made a loss in 1991 of £16.1m but has restructured by selling off businesses and said earlier this year that it believed the worst was over in the construction industry . |
| 11 | If tile 4 were out of the way , as in c , the position b could be obtained from a by sliding the tiles 7 , 8 , 3 , 5 , and 1 in a loop . |
| 12 | Not all were up to the standard of Miss Clarke , most were a lot older . |
| 13 | All the clan from six to sixty were up on the hill before dawn , ready to drive the deer that would help feast them . |
| 14 | Er they get rather sulky and offended to say the least , they get er , often they recruit academics and lawyers to say that the memories of abuse are fabricated , the memories of abuse they could n't really have happened because the people concerned were out of the country at the time and were on holiday anyway and er did n't even meet the family until the kid was eleven years old after it was sup and so on and so forth . |
| 15 | The declaration stated that , whereas heretofore , to wit , etc. , in consideration that the plaintiff , at the request of the defendant , had then consented to allow the defendant to weigh divers , to wit two , boilers of the plaintiff , of great value , etc. , defendant promised that he would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected , leave and give up the boilers in as perfect and complete a condition , and as fit for use by plaintiff , as the same were in at the time of the consent so given by plaintiff ; and that , although in pursuance of the consent so given , defendant to wit , on , etc. , did weigh the same boilers , yet defendant did not nor would , within a reasonable time after the said weighing was effected leave and give up boilers in as perfect , etc. , but wholly neglected and refused so to do , although a reasonable time for that purpose had elapsed before the commencement of this suit ; and , on the contrary thereof , defendant afterwards , to wit on , etc. , took the said boilers to pieces and did not put the same together again but left the same in a detached and divided condition , and in many different pieces , whereby plaintiff hath been put to great trouble , etc . |
| 16 | Most of her work would be over by now ; Dizzy was out of the way , and the party was running under its own momentum . |
| 17 | Yes , we saw a white one , that was round near the leisure centre . |
| 18 | That was through to the end of September . |
| 19 | Er in the morning he would be in before any of them , sort of thing , getting a fire lit getting the rivets heat up before they come on the job and ah the the quicker he could the the rivets heat up and passed on to the the squad , then okay the more they could put in so , if he were a good rivet boy you could maybe get a good wage , but again that was up to the squad up to the riveter . |
| 20 | That was up near the Arsenal football ground . |
| 21 | That was back in the days when there were too many manufacturers and too few customers . |
| 22 | Whether that was down to the powers that be I do n't know ; perhaps they were teaching me a lesson for daring to complain about where I was put . |
| 23 | Oh yes , oh yes much as they are now and the big horse we used to call them the big horses you know and er shows and that , all , they used to , Willenhall Wakes used to be fine really good , and er that was down in the Lane somewhere there . |
| 24 | Julia was relieved that that was out of the way and that David 's announcement had been so definite . |
| 25 | Sir Gregory knew that was out of the question , but it was also essential that she should not see the entrance to the tunnel . |
| 26 | That was out of the question now ; concentration would be impossible . |
| 27 | No , she thought , that was out of the question . |
| 28 | It would have been a particular thrill to have met the man who could pen such material , she mused as she closed the lid on her suitcase for the last time on Tuesday morning , but she knew that that was out of the question . |
| 29 | Yeah , that was out of the cash money I had ! |
| 30 | Thousands were out along the route to watch one of the toughest stages of the event . |