Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time the Conservatives were low in the polls and within the Party the various political and organisational groups were not yet pulling hard together towards the election . |
| 2 | Traditionally these island cows were tether-grazed by the horns and were accustomed to handling , a factor which contributed substantially to their affable temperament . |
| 3 | In contrast , macerated stillbirths were underrepresented in the stillbirths that occurred at general practitioner units while deaths due to asphyxia in labour were overrepresented . |
| 4 | The light was fading ; lamps were aglow in the streets and the shop windows were lit invitingly , tempting the late shoppers . |
| 5 | Down the clachan street he ducked and dodged through the retiring clansmen , half-hidden by the smoke , Lachlan yelling after him , till suddenly they were clear of the huts and into the fight round the ships . |
| 6 | These were some of the resolutions that emerged during a conference organised by the Europe-based Network for Women in Communication ( NETWIC ) in Bielsko-Biala , 10–15 October . |
| 7 | But they were some of the ones that we went Swanage with . |
| 8 | But look at the negotiation you did , what were you doing well , what were some of the things that you needed most strength . |
| 9 | These , then , were some of the issues that took my time . |
| 10 | Of course , he knew that the lasers did n't hurt ; you could n't see them and they did no harm by themselves , but he knew that they were another of the ways that they — the Tormentors — took points off him . |
| 11 | Police said the devices found last night were similar to the others and were also harmless . |
| 12 | Members will be aware that ex-Councillors and were unsuccessful at the polls and I wish to ask the Council to place on record its thanks to their contribution to the work of this Council made by those members and to wish them well in the future . |
| 13 | Enjoyment of heterosexual activity does not need to diminish with age ; and , in fact , many women gain greater satisfaction from sex in their later years than formerly , when they were subject to the pressures and distractions of raising a family , or fear of an unwanted pregnancy . |
| 14 | For many of us it was our first time in Northern Ireland and we were nervous about the Provos and the troubles . |
| 15 | ‘ Most of these players took part last year and were delighted with the facilities and hospitality ’ says Sean Curtis : ‘ We aim to make this year 's tournament even better and , believe me , the phones have already been buzzing in relation to tickets even though they will not available until the end of this month . ’ |
| 16 | For they always avoided towns and traffic ; they avoided also the larger roads which became turnpikes in the eighteenth century and were subject to tolls , and they were short-turfed for the cattle and sheep , grazing as they went . |
| 17 | I think that that view was held widely across Europe , and I was delighted that our European partners were content with the proposals that we advanced . |
| 18 | They had all met teachers ‘ like that ’ on teaching practice : the ones who told them they needed their heads looking at for wanting to go into teaching , who were sarcastic to the pupils and disparaging about almost everything . |
| 19 | The Reds were victorious over the Whites because they had a well organized , well co-ordinated , strictly disciplined army who were aware of their situation and knew exactly how to handle it . |
| 20 | They were conscious of the ups and downs of working-class agitation for political rights , the vote — and more . |
| 21 | The make-believe pomp and affected circumstance of the people for whom they 'd been built , the doctors and lawyers and merchants and administrators of Empire who all , in one way or another , made their money out of trade but built houses like miniature castles , or palaces , to reassure themselves that they were closer to the Barons than lo the Peasants , and safe from both . |
| 22 | However , one group of Americans which had few social aspirations and lacked political prejudice was that of the young architects , less critical of the man than they were impressed by the buildings and the city he had created , and they returned to the United States inspired by what they had seen . |
| 23 | Oh well the role of the police , well of course they were opposed to the strikers but there were n't er quite so many police you see and and the strike movement was strong and so the the the they did n't have a great deal of affect . |
| 24 | All were eyeless for the crows and ravens pluck the succulent pieces first . |
| 25 | There was no significant difference in gastric emptying between the two groups , but small intestinal transit ( p<0.001 ) and whole gut transit ( p<0.05 ) were faster in the patients than in the control subjects . |
| 26 | Both small intestinal and whole gut ( mainly colonic ) transit , were faster in the patients than the control subjects . |
| 27 | Peter Burke in his influential study Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe ( 1978 ) judges that the two most active craft cultures were those of the weavers and the shoemakers . |
| 28 | The cool halls and rooms , separated from the outside by removable screens rather than walls , were silent and empty , since the few servants Mait employed were busy in the kitchens and the garden outside . |
| 29 | Local people were busy among the shops and markets inland or thinking about starting their working day . |
| 30 | J. Vijayatunga 's novel Grass For My Feet , set in a Low Country village fifteen kilometres from Galle , portrays more typical villagers who were familiar with the proceedings and personalities of the Galle courts . |