Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adj] [coord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I invite him to read the Prime Minister 's response to the right hon. Member for Chesterfield , which was far and away the most interesting part of the debate — Amended text or not , it reveals the muddle to which the other 11 nations of Europe do not subscribe .
2 When she was young and maybe a little wilful , Elizabeth had made what she deemed to be the right decision , and she had suffered because of it .
3 It was argued that since any payment above the standard rent would be illegal and indeed a criminal offence under section 17 of that Act , the lease itself was unlawful and accordingly the agreement for commission fixed upon the amount of the rent stipulated in it was also illegal and irrecoverable .
4 For a moment Ruth wondered if he were real or just a ghost .
5 On some railroads , however , it was far and away the most important single item of freight .
6 By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways .
7 It was adventurous and yet a bit modest and down-to-earth .
8 But there was still you know a substantial It was more or less the same case as we had before in terms of the traffic relief that each afforded and the economic rates of return .
9 I would n't of thought so , I would of thought it was more or less the van than anything else
10 He was eighteen but still a lad , awkward , like his arms and legs were longer than he could cope with .
11 Young Roberto 's mother died when he was eight and thereafter the boy rarely left the family villa of Baronta near Florence .
12 Something like £1,500 shared among the family , not to mention generous bequests , including £200 towards the completion of Lavenham steeple and cash distributed among the parishes where Spring owned property , virtually accounts for what was far and away the greatest personal estate owned by any commoner , or for that matter almost any peer : only the duke of Norfolk 's £4,000 topped it .
13 Underlining this was not only a sense of what was proper but also a sense of what was politically and socially wise .
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