Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she was given considerable powers , and had to be consulted by LEAs over their general development plans and any specific proposals to establish , close or alter schools ( this changed under the 1980 Act ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I could think of individual old people who were inappropriately placed in long-stay settings , or who were creating excessive stresses at home on relatives … and I could see that something more substantial in the community needed to be provided . |
| 3 | Japanese owners operated 500 of the 1,300 Asian drift vessels in the Pacific , where there was increasing international pressure to cease driftnet fishing — a practice whereby fine nylon nets were stretched across as much as 60 km of the ocean to a depth of 15 metres , resulting in the unintended death of an estimated 1,000,000 sea birds and 200,000 mammals each year . |
| 4 | Barry had entered a Florida alcohol abuse centre on Jan. 22 , four days after being arrested in the Vista International Hotel , Washington , where he was filmed smoking crack cocaine in the room of a former girlfriend , Hazel " Rasheeda " Moore [ see p. 37180 ] . |
| 5 | I sometimes felt that I was taking unfair advantage of the family 's need to talk through their problems with a sympathetic outsider . |
| 6 | People would occasionally point out that I was wearing odd shoes , but it really did n't seem to matter . |
| 7 | Oh yes you told me this that I was doing hard labour and he said I was building the building . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew that I was doing evil things , but I could not stop myself . |
| 9 | There remains the possibility that the pregnant mother may catch the infection after her first antenatal examination , or that she was incubating early syphilis and therefore had negative blood-tests when first seen . |
| 10 | So good were her father 's hints and tips that she was appointed official yearbook photographer at high school and from there she went on to study applied photography at college . |
| 11 | So good were her father 's hints and tips that she was appointed official yearbook photographer at high school and from there she went on to study applied photography at college . |
| 12 | You do n't want to know that she was wearing odd socks and one of them was green , it 's |
| 13 | He had already recognised that she was wearing poor clothing , and it was also obvious that she was taking her work seriously enough to sacrifice her privileged lifestyle and live among those of whom she wrote . |
| 14 | As she gradually changed her beliefs , Cathy found that she was meeting different kinds of men . |
| 15 | One woman , a party official 's wife , is said by the Anglican vicar to have eaten twenty-one croustades of morels in a sauce of cream and truffle , with a vapeur of Armagnac , in the belief that she was fostering international relations . |
| 16 | The character of a woman may be attacked in ways other than an explicit recounting of her past sexual relationships or , indeed , that she was having sexual relationships . |
| 17 | Well , Val I think you are quite right in thinking that you are not alone in feeling let down after purchasing the ‘ wrong ’ computer for your needs and I do agree that you were given poor advice by the store you purchased from . |
| 18 | Not that you were dissimulating unfelt emotions : you were merely their translator , and you transcended those emotions , imparting to them that furnace heat which makes a work of genius give off light if it is brought to the desired temperature . |
| 19 | She had a respiratory infection and one reason for life termination was ‘ the threat of asphyxia ’ — so she was given high-dose opioids , which ensured that she died of asphyxia . |
| 20 | The whole performance was an almost total waste of time , and was accompanied by a belief that it was necessary to demonstrate that one was working long hours in the evenings , and preferably all weekends as well . |
| 21 | She turned and leant against the edge of the parapet , so that we were facing opposite ways , and came to a decision . |
| 22 | I think that 's what Priest , I mean I do n't know , Priest probably has a whole history of how he got is Esquire style , but Vincent went over there and had something to do with it , and I really think that taking the old style stuff and giving it a new spin helped , and the difference between what we 're doing and what the California crowd was doing — and this was also the time of punk rock — was that we were using traditional typefaces and they were |
| 23 | There was a discernable impact , and in any case , part of the concept is to create an interest in books at Christmas , and we are happy that we were creating extra sales and an awareness of books . ’ |
| 24 | Others have suggested that there were paired nasal sacs opening separately and gave rise to the theory that heterostracans might be ancestral to jawed vertebrates ( Fig. 2 B , b ) . |
| 25 | The most recent sequence of excavations has established that there was limited pre-Roman occupation of the site , in the form of a round house , which may have been associated with areas of ploughed fields , found below Roman levels in Annetwell Street , even though they had apparently reverted to pasture immediately before the arrival of the Romans . |
| 26 | A similar study of modular Stage I assessment data ( 1986 ; see Table 6.2 ) showed that there was imbalanced modular provision and enrolment over the academic year . |
| 27 | Although they were playing stereotyped conspirators , innocents , prostitutes , courtiers and lackeys each role had a personality of its own and thus a semblance of reality . |
| 28 | Bolognese lawyers were so important to both the papal and imperial parties in supplying them with lawyers to staff their governments and administrations that they were given special protection . |
| 29 | Mary Mauchline explained again that they were telling dirty jokes . |
| 30 | Listening with half an ear as she examined the cluster of bottles on the draining-board , she caught the names of several authors and concluded that they were discussing contemporary novelists . |