Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men , aged 21 and 25 , were each injured in both legs in what appears to have been another loyalist paramilitary attack . |
| 2 | But only the radical pro-Soviet regimes in the Non-Aligned Movement were prepared to engage in such attacks . |
| 3 | Members were free to engage in any activities , whether using the name of the group or autonomously , and to adopt any tactic ( violent or otherwise ) as they saw fit . |
| 4 | They are defined in s.12(c) as listed securities or securities in respect of which , not more than six months prior to the breach in question , information indicating the prices at which persons have dealt or were willing to deal in those securities has been published for the purpose of facilitating deals in those securities . |
| 5 | Promotions in government service were likely to go to those officers who were able to make themselves useful politically , and if the connection between advancement and political activity was blatant in the case of Drummond , it was a link which long persisted , for even when revenue officers were deprived of the franchise , this did not materially alter the connection between holders of a revenue office and the politicians whose solicitations remained the usual route to advancement . |
| 6 | We were all staying with some friends of Steve 's — that 's the man who 's organising the exhibition ; Rick shares a studio with him in London . |
| 7 | Peter Mason , senior , Peter Mason junior and his brother David were all acquitted on all charges . |
| 8 | The regional authorities in Wallonia , which were responsible for policy but dependent upon allocations ( based upon the number of pupils ) from central government , were unable to pay for such increases . |
| 9 | 100 were first charged with these offences . |
| 10 | We were amused to notice at this years Twelfth of July demonstrations that the Orange Order displayed pathetically small little notices on top of their banners which read ‘ No Dublin Interference ’ . |
| 11 | Oxbridge institutions , though , were slow to respond to such trends and it was only towards the end of the century that calls from the ancient universities to accept a " national " role began to be heeded . |
| 12 | Yet even the nobility were loath to pay for such intangibles when they could obtain a similar ritual at less outlay and with greater speed from within the trade . |
| 13 | And she was prepared to go to any lengths to get what she wanted — and almost always succeeded . |
| 14 | To fulfil this ambition he was prepared to go to any lengths , no matter how underhand or devious they might be . |
| 15 | By the time of the May Day ‘ celebrations ’ of 1990 there was much writing on many walls . |
| 16 | He had an unpleasant grating laugh and Stephen felt anyway that it was unseemly to laugh in these circumstances . |
| 17 | England came away from Australia shaking their heads and saying that it was impossible to defend against those moves . |
| 18 | This again was impossible to calculate for those theses which had received only one citation . |
| 19 | I was unwilling to move for many minutes as I experienced the power present in that place . |
| 20 | It was all manhandled in those days . |
| 21 | But it was fatal to think on those lines . |
| 22 | Lipski was able to point to several passages in school textbooks containing similar references . |
| 23 | These entities are placed on Earth to manage coincidences in such a way as to inch us gradually along the evolutionary path and , while on Ketamine , Lilly was able to communicate with these extraterrestrials , who informed him that they had removed DNA samples from Earth and transported them to another planet . |
| 24 | Though Packford was happy to experiment with all kinds of design , his work on the launch and re-launch of the Mail on Sunday had only confirmed the view that he and Sutton shared . |
| 25 | The lysozyme was first noticed during some investigations made on a patient suffering from acute coryza … . |
| 26 | He had aimed to go to Cambridge to read geography , but failed the Latin entrance examination it was necessary to take in those days . |
| 27 | In order to preserve her reputation , a woman was obliged to refrain from most types of work that might bring financial independence . |
| 28 | Before dusk I had a look around and was surprised to come across several graves of British soldiers , here and there in the undergrowth . |
| 29 | On March 17 Israeli Health Minister Ehud Olmert told a meeting of US Jews in Washington that Israel was ready to negotiate on all issues " including all territorial demands of the Syrians " . |