Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ironical thing was that all the time , in a stack in Hilbert 's desk , secured by a rubber band , were fifty or so old postcards collected by Hilbert and Lilian presumably on early travels and among them were two of Greece , one of Mount Lycabettos and the other the very view Rufus had spoken of so scathingly . |
| 2 | It was clear that some economies were possible if more generic drugs were prescribed rather than branded drugs . |
| 3 | ‘ Not that that 's much of a road to speak of , ’ the Brigadier went on , But the family has n't lived there since before the war-there were German and then English soldiers billeted here during the second war … ’ |
| 4 | Yes , there were 300 or so other overs bowled on the four days of play permitted by the weather , with nine innings passing 50 , and even the extras in England 's innings passing the half-century . |
| 5 | Results were similar when only severe fractures were analysed . |
| 6 | The results were contradictory and thus neither hypothesis was supported . |
| 7 | In the case of 44% , it only happened once ; for 29% it happened more than once with the same person ; for 19% there were three or more different people on separate occasions . |
| 8 | Restrictions on foreign borrowing were relaxed and about 30 companies were permitted to issue convertible bonds and bonds of warrant in the international capital markets . |
| 9 | Fierce competition between the major tour operators in Britain , Germany and Scandinavia produced advantageous deals with airlines and hotels ; there were better and more economical aircraft , and less financial restrictions , all of which produced cheaper holidays . |
| 10 | Itar-Tass news agency said on Sept. 27 that Armenian forces had continued shelling Azerbaijani positions along the whole front line that day ; there were numerous but seemingly unreliable claims of casualties . |
| 11 | It was totally unbalanced — there were ten or so Labour people , and about four hundred Conservatives — it sat for about three hours every day , and there were a great number like Halifax , Salisbury , Beaverbrook who had been prominent in political life . |
| 12 | The first aircraft came into Wolverton Works on 2 April 1941 , when shop adaptations were incomplete and only eight men trained to commence work , and whilst the layout had to be completed and the staff were being gradually built up and trained , the first aircraft was completed by 31 July 1941 . |
| 13 | While the members may be delegates of the member States , the administrative officers were independent and exclusively international employees of the Council . |
| 14 | Mr Rich said many dentists were concerned that not enough money was being made available by the Government to implement the contract and he had approached Mrs Bottomley , Health Secretary , to arrange a meeting . |
| 15 | ‘ But it was n't until I went to India that I cam to feel that humans were more than just mechanical responses . |
| 16 | Perhaps they were more than just good friends . |
| 17 | It was , anyway , only a reaction against childhood instability , valid while the children were small but not rational grounds now for two reasonable people to continue together . |
| 18 | According to the conventional British wisdom of the middle of the century , our flexible unwritten constitution , our democratic Parliament , the sense of fair play of our permanent civil service , and our vigorous and vigilant free Press were safer and more effective guarantees of personal freedom than a Continental or American-style ‘ government of judges ’ . |
| 19 | Under de Gaulle , the independent nuclear deterrent , and the Franco-British Concorde project , were higher and more costly priorities than space policy . |
| 20 | In the pub were twenty or so other walkers , similarly soaked , all crowding round a massive wood stove . |
| 21 | For Friedman , models which portrayed policy makers as having the power to choose from among differing combinations of inflation and unemployment were fantastic and potentially tragic exercises in self-delusion . |
| 22 | The first 15 instalments were satisfactory , the sixteenth was defective , and there were four or more satisfactory deliveries . |
| 23 | Split There were two or more correct hypotheses in sequence over the region of the hand-transcribed phoneme . |
| 24 | It was partly Szarkowski 's influence in the early 60s , which broadened collectors ' minds to the idea of buying photographs which were other than self-consciously fine art . |
| 25 | We were surprised that only four women with endometriosis had infertility . |
| 26 | However , Captain John Hughes Hallet of the Planning Staff turned these shallows to the raiders ' advantage , because on the extra-high water of a spring tide it was possible that lightly laden ships and boats might scrape over these flats . |
| 27 | Peggy smiled and , looking towards her stepfather , she said , ‘ Yes , I can imagine how he gets on your nerves , ’ at the same time questioning why her mother should be so happy , and she a settled woman forty years old , whereas she was twenty-one and so miserable inside that there were days where she wanted to take to her heels and run . |
| 28 | But by March 1951 , it was clear that even this reform did not satisfy the Irish hierarchy who had also been lobbied by the Irish Medical Association to oppose the scheme . |
| 29 | By the mid-1970s , it was clear that neither sensory inputs nor motor outputs had properties which corresponded to the behavioural habituation , as neither showed such decrements in electrical response . |
| 30 | There was another and more immediate danger than slow starvation : supplies of ball and powder running out . |