Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence suggests that working class wives were prepared to put up with occasional drinking bouts by their husbands and the physical abuse that sometimes accompanied them rather than lose the economic support normally provided . |
| 2 | A psychological study ( Californian again ) once tried to explain why people were hard to tempt back to public transport . |
| 3 | The coffee cups were all laid out on long white-napped tables , and waiters hovered over the silver urn , dispensing coffee to a few early arrivals . |
| 4 | The third one : once the buzz bombs started to come over it was at last realised that it was n't a very good idea to have children evacuated directly on the flight path between Germany and London , and we were all shipped off to other locations , myself to Teignmouth in Devon . |
| 5 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 6 | By the middle of the Triassic , thecodonts were diversifying : many by now were able to rear up on hind legs , perhaps to catch insects . |
| 7 | Of course , some were able to pull through on sheer physical strength , quickness and resilience , but there is evidence to suggest that shrewdness or guile were useful properties to have when it came to self-preservation . |
| 8 | All too often Labour councils were reluctant to go out to competitive tender . |
| 9 | Every Londoner seemed to be out of doors : the stall-holders were busy making up for lost trade and the air was thick with savoury smells from taverns and cookshops . |
| 10 | ‘ The Myrcans , when they were first created out of Dwarf-hewn and Giant-riven stone , took up residence in the broad Dale of Glen-arric , and in time that place became known as Merkadale , as it still is called today . |
| 11 | But it was all hazed over in endless mists of blue . |
| 12 | Sam was apt to come out with explosive , inconsequential damnations which his class bore patiently , sympathetically . |
| 13 | The Newcastle-based steel fabricator and erector contracted to carry out the steelwork went into receivership early in the operation but fortunately Bone , Connel & Baxters of Motherwell was able to take over at short notice and , says Alan Muir , ‘ did a great job ’ . |
| 14 | It seems , then , that the average undertaker was little more than a speculative cabinet-maker and joiner who , either by direct contact with the metalworking trades , or via such funeral houses as Richard Green 's , was able to buy in at wholesale all that was required for a funeral . |
| 15 | In addition , Alexander Hardinge , who had replaced Wigram as private secretary to the King and who constantly saw his loyalty as lying with the institution and not with the person , was available to come over at short notice and did so . |
| 16 | Another famous prop , David Sole , captain in the memorable Grand Slam in 1990 , was first capped out of English rugby , while he was with Bath . |
| 17 | Docklands historians say it was first shipped out to thirsty expats in the Far East from Hodgson 's brewery in Bow in 1734 . |
| 18 | It was one step up from small talk ; it was aggrandisement . |
| 19 | On June 21 Jörg Haider , 40 , the populist leader of the Freedom Party of Austria ( FPÖ ) , was obliged to step down as provincial governor ( Landeshauptmann ) of Carinthia . |
| 20 | He was chased out over the Adriatic by fighters and was obliged to come down at Tatoi airport near Athens . |
| 21 | He was eager to make up for lost time and published prolifically . |
| 22 | Once again , tolerance decreased and hostility increased quite markedly with age ; and ( with the exception of " the rather anomalous group who call themselves upper working class " ) the same was true going down in social class scales . |
| 23 | The idea of giving a backward horse time , of not over-racing his less tough charges , of giving the vet the benefit of the doubt when he said a leg was liable to break down on hard ground — these were alien concepts to Harry Short . |