Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [conj] [noun] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However he went on to find that Miss T. was lulled into a sense of false security by hospital staff and that she was misinformed as to the availability and effectiveness of alternative procedures . |
| 2 | It was widely considered that US co-operation was essential to the success of any initiative on global warming , since one-fifth of all " greenhouse gases " ( carbon dioxide , chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs , nitrous oxide , methane and surface ozone ) were produced in the USA . |
| 3 | For the rest , the Queen 's private secretary merely asked whether Sir Harold was serious . |
| 4 | And she suddenly realized that Derek Fairfax was one of the few people who would view matters in the same light as her . |
| 5 | So , on the other hand , feminists want another kind of knowledge — based on believing that it is not enough to establish that Angelica Kauffman was productive and well respected in both difficult and popular forms of art . |
| 6 | Transient cholangitis only occurred when antibiotic prophylaxis was omitted . |
| 7 | It was very much regretted that Master Fellow was unable to be present due to family illness . |
| 8 | Brushing aside Allen 's pleas not to ‘ take as selfish view of Socialism , a national view ’ , Wheatley argued that the ‘ Living Wage ’ strategy would only work if import duties were introduced to prevent foreign capitalists , employing sweated labour , from reaping the benefit of the increased demand in the British economy . |
| 9 | It so happened that Lady Thatcher was , at that very moment , engaged in a nasty altercation with the security men on the door of the Grand Hotel , having , in the excitement , forgotten to wear her conference badge . |
| 10 | The pawnbroker 's clock showed five minutes to the hour and Billy suddenly remembered that Tony McCarthy was due and his friends must be waiting for him . |
| 11 | Angelica reckoned that she was a reasonable judge of people — one could hardly be a nurse for twenty years without picking up one hell of a lot of insight — and it had n't taken her long to decide that Alina Peterson was either dead straight or very plausible . |
| 12 | Even if neither we nor they were quite clued up enough to realise that Jethro Tull was a group and not the inventor of the seed drill ! |
| 13 | Keelan was suddenly gone and Nurse Lambert was in her place . |
| 14 | Blix also said that the IAEA 's effectiveness would be much increased if member countries were to make available to the agency relevant information gathered by spy satellites . |
| 15 | I ought perhaps to add that Edward Spelman was the man who said : " Good God , doth any fellow of a College know anything of Greek . " |
| 16 | They were at the toast and marmalade stage when Mrs. Mackintosh came in to say that Sir Bryan was wanted on the telephone . |
| 17 | He rightly said that passenger facilities were absolutely appalling , especially the absence of adequate public lavatories . |
| 18 | Nor does the fact that , so long as they consider that the affairs of the business they own are being conducted well enough on their behalf , owners do not choose to exercise their ultimate authority , provide any reason for supposing either that companies would be better managed if trade unions were implicated in management or that owners would acquiesce in the assumption , in whole or in part , of their rights by any other party — let alone by one whose essential interests are often opposed to their own . |
| 19 | Although it is possible to ‘ hedge ’ against this risk by operating on the ‘ forward ’ market , this involves traders in additional costs which would not exist if exchange rates were fixed . |
| 20 | Even the argument that there was not enough money to pay for the programme soon dissolved when heritage languages were actually seen to help immigrant students succeed in other subjects . |
| 21 | I do not know if Gibson Keddie was serious when he invited users of 30 watt bass combos to write to him ( review of the Carlsbro bass combos in the June edition of Guitarist ) , but I accept the invitation . |
| 22 | In this at least he agreed with Madison and the other American constitutionalists , who also did not believe that majority decisions were necessarily right . |
| 23 | The clippers were no longer needed and Cutty Sark was sold to Portuguese owners in 1895 . |
| 24 | I am not stating that Lord Armstrong was obeying government instructions over this much ridiculed staff restructuring : I am asking if he was . |
| 25 | He does not mention that Scipio Nasica was against the destruction of Carthage because Rome needed a rival in order to keep sober and alert . |
| 26 | Anyone under 21 might not realise that Rod Stewart was not always a smug , smarmy middle of the road crooner . |
| 27 | Provided always that the signatures are contemporaneous with the documents , it would thus seem that Molla Fenari was appointed to the kadilik between those two dates . |
| 28 | That is not to say that Derek Bevan was wrong ; just to say that we saw it differently , that 's all . |
| 29 | He thus concluded that stabilization policy was unimportant . |
| 30 | These results did not differ when acid output was expressed as mmol/h/kg lean body mass or mmol/h/kg fat free body weight . |