Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [was/were] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the pace of technological development meant that the advantages to companies from new products or improvements were short-lived and soon overtaken by others . |
| 2 | These paper notes , redeemable in gold or silver were transferable and thus gave rise to the use of paper money in England . |
| 3 | As it was difficult to know if one artefact or site was earlier or later than another , there was rarely any way of even estimating the time that had elapsed between the occupation of different sites , or parts of the same site . |
| 4 | Whereas in Exeter cathedral , where endowments were modest and equally divided among the chapter members , only a quarter of the twenty-four canons were nonresident during Edward II 's reign , in the cathedrals of York , Lincoln , Wells , Salisbury and Lichfield between two thirds and three quarters of the canons were occupied elsewhere . |
| 5 | Where the peasantry remained ‘ pre-commercial , ’ as in large parts of Russia and among the emancipated slaves of the Americas who returned to subsistence peasant agriculture , the estate retained this advantage , but without the physical compulsions of serfdom or slavery it now found it more difficult to obtain labour , unless the former slaves or serfs were landless or so short of land as to be obliged to become hired labourers — and unless there was no more attractive labour for them to take . |
| 6 | She had known that she was playing with fire , her own emotions had been awakened and she no longer trusted herself to be level-headed where Craig was concerned and yet was n't that half-fearful desire a challenge , a part of the fascination she felt for Craig Grenfell ? |
| 7 | If news came that gold had been found in Australia or jobs were plentiful and well paid in the United States , migration increased . |
| 8 | This is not to say that Paisley was dictatorial and simply imposed his will on other activists . |
| 9 | However , it may be that the existence of diverse approaches is inevitable and Butzer ( 1973 ) concluded that pluralism was inevitable and possibly desirable . |
| 10 | I told him an hour ago Quinn had secured further proof that Simon was alive and apparently well — the sixth time Quinn 's got the kidnappers to prove that . |
| 11 | So much was at stake that jokes were few and far between . |
| 12 | Although lack of staff was mentioned often , lack of direct funding was mentioned much less so : in fact more libraries actually said that resources were adequate than specifically noted otherwise : |
| 13 | Although Stan was older and previously dominant , by virtue of being the only dog , he had not turned out to be the natural leader of he pair . |
| 14 | ‘ But it was n't until I went to India that I cam to feel that humans were more than just mechanical responses . |
| 15 | I was disappointed to find that accommodation was scarcer and more expensive than I thought it would be and the best that I could afford was a large first-floor room in a bedsitter house on Ladbroke Grove . |
| 16 | Thus I learned that Chaplin was dead and so was Elvis ( I 'd thought the former long since gone but this intelligence of Presley startled me ) , that Iranians had held Americans hostage , administered show trials and televised humiliation ; that a geriatric cowboy had become President of the mightiest nation on earth all in all , show biz news . |
| 17 | The King , however , made it clear that neither mother nor son was welcome and so the journey to England had to be resumed . |
| 18 | The Sun report on The Savage in my Bed about his first wife also makes it clear that Fairley was violent and sexually abusive to his first wife and , indeed , that this was a major factor in why she left him . |
| 19 | Life goes on and Will was busier than ever . |
| 20 | As a trainer , I have found that the brightest learners ( and the best , funniest and most communicative partners ) were not domestic horses , whose natural ability has been stunted , but wild ones in which the capacity for learning and communicating was rich and well developed . |
| 21 | When I was finally called one wintry Monday by the neighbours , she looked quite dreadful ; her faced was bruised from several falls the previous night , she was struggling for her breath , her legs and thighs were painful and very swollen . |
| 22 | Hoomey 's thin arms and legs were hard and gristly ; he was getting more like Nails every day . |
| 23 | The traditional system suppliers such as VBS with their Beacon system and Genigraphics were few and far between while Matrix , now part of Agfa , was the dominant supplier of medium-priced film recorders . |
| 24 | So Connor declared his feelings at last , and in due course he and Ruth were married and now , almost a year later , she was going to have his child . |
| 25 | For example , the incidental take from squid gill-net fisheries by Taiwan and Korea was unreported and therefore an unknown quantity . |
| 26 | The patriarch 's power over his wife and offspring was absolute and often rigorously exercised . |
| 27 | He gave me the good news that Elizabeth and Ernest were safe and well . |
| 28 | In the rural areas , people could scrape by , thanks to what they grew themselves , but , in the towns , the queues for food and fuel were endless and often unrewarded . |
| 29 | But I think if Durex were free and readily available , fellas would be more responsible . |
| 30 | Her fingers and toes were chilling and slowly and almost imperceptibly the mist settling on her fur collar was turning a frosty white . |