Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later Byzantine columns were monolithic and usually of marble . |
| 2 | She turned to him and he saw her eyes were clear and out of pain . |
| 3 | Thus when determining what contracts fall within or outside the ambit of s 3 , issues of reasonableness , equality of bargaining power and the possibility of negotiation are in fact not very relevant , except in so far as they could move a judge to finding that terms were standard or not in borderline cases . |
| 4 | The wards were crowded and even in mid-winter very sick babies had to be wheeled out into the open air to get from one part of the hospital to another . |
| 5 | Now , from the mid-seventeenth century onwards , they were more than ever in evidence , as pamphleteers and propagandists ready to justify them grew in numbers . |
| 6 | One has a brief glimpse here of the fate of the elderly who were childless or out of touch with their children . |
| 7 | In December 1946 de Gaulle was further than ever from power , while the world was closer to war . |
| 8 | It had become clear over the ensuing years that the requirements concerning collective worship had increasingly been disregarded by schools , and there were calls for the introduction of a more flexible system as well as suggestions that as a concept collective worship in school was outmoded and out of line with the more secular society in Britain , and should , therefore , be abandoned altogether . |
| 9 | He was puffing and out of breath . |
| 10 | And there certainly was cream and more for tea . |
| 11 | I asked , getting that first warning flicker that something was wrong or out of place . |
| 12 | Seems to me that there was some and then of course the Wave of Life |
| 13 | Central government intervention into public health , sanitation and housing was cautious and piecemeal in comparison with Chadwick 's conception of a centralized supervisory network . |
| 14 | A RADIATION leak from the Sellafield nuclear plant was serious but well within safety limits , David Maclean , an environment minister , said yesterday . |
| 15 | Woe betide anyone who was untidy or out of step on one of the marches . |
| 16 | She was ageless and even in age would , I knew , be careless . |
| 17 | I would like to express my thanks and appreciation for all the cards , letters and offers of help sent to wish David well when he was ill and then in sympathy when he died . |
| 18 | She said : ‘ It was shattering but well worth while , we managed to get the message across and people were very generous . |
| 19 | Fighting in October was widespread but particularly in evidence in the provinces of Battambang , Kompong Thom , Pursat , Siem Reap and Oddar Meanchey , and around Phnom Penh . |
| 20 | When a young lad , well as a young lad you were n't allowed to be cos you 're not going to be in there son , and as I was er saying until I , until I left school I was more or less at work between school and bedtime you see , but er the majority of lads used to do a , do a little part-time job in those days |
| 21 | Joe sat down , he was red and out of breath . |
| 22 | Bentham 's success was greater but far from total . |
| 23 | To make sure that their knowledge of enemy military procedure was correct and up to date , Buck had also recruited a couple of Afrika Korps men who had been taken prisoner . |