Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not even this could persuade Mr Ronald King-Murray , the new Lord Advocate , to move ; presumably because the thought of having to admit that Meehan' ; wrongful conviction and five years of imprisonment ( so far ) were due partly to the blunders of his office was too Painful to contemplate . |
| 2 | Moreover , Keeble argued ( see section 2.4 ) that the shifts in the 1970s were due precisely to the counter-processes which can be sparked off by the concentration of development in a particular area . |
| 3 | If you know that distance , you can work out what the red shift would be if it were due entirely to the expansion of the universe . |
| 4 | If a response to selection occurs , and if ageing in the original base population were attributable entirely to the presence of more or less age-specific deleterious mutations , then no immediate drop in survival or fertility would be expected to occur earlier in life . |
| 5 | Two of the favourites were asleep away from the Village , in downtown Seoul . |
| 6 | People were asleep all over the carriage : on the floor , in the narrow luggage racks , in the lavatory . |
| 7 | For example , it is still commonplace in cartoons to show cavemen and dinosaurs together , despite the fact that it has been known for many years that dinosaurs were extinct long before the evolution of ‘ cavemen ’ . |
| 8 | Soviet leaders were interested only in a kind of ‘ non-alignment ’ for Afghanistan comparable with that of the radical pro-Soviet members of the Non-Aligned Movement ; they did not hanker for Afghan neutralism of the pre-1973 variant . |
| 9 | Knottingley were 17–4 ahead at the interval with tries by Chris Carlyle and Dennis Stead . |
| 10 | Knottingley were 17–4 ahead at the interval with tries by Chris Carlyle and Dennis Stead . |
| 11 | Although my efforts would make Mr Walt Disney cringe , they were popular enough with the children of Navan , and I was soon handing out picture after picture — all free , courtesy of Navan shopping centre . |
| 12 | ‘ You were willing enough at the time . |
| 13 | There were other places that they loved which were accessible only in the summer . |
| 14 | Bright muzzle flashes were visible even through the murk . |
| 15 | Changes of character brought about by the fluctuation of material conditions were so marked that they were noticeable even at the time from within the camp . |
| 16 | diabolically malevolent dwarf , the chief villain of the Old Curiosity Shop ‘ … his head and face were large enough for the body of a giant . |
| 17 | Undoubtedly there were men who made substantial fortunes , but there is not sufficient evidence to say whether they were exceptional merely in the scale of their gains or because they contrived to prosper when others failed . |
| 18 | The UDA made some half-hearted attempts to block the roads but they were unpopular enough for the RUC to have little trouble in shifting them . |
| 19 | The burst of growth and prosperity in America after 1945 had social consequences that were unprecedented anywhere in the world . |
| 20 | His eyes were hard again for an instant . |
| 21 | The roads were flooded and cars were aqua-planning all over the place , ’ says Beckett . |
| 22 | In 23 patients ( group A ) biliary tract calculi were present either at the time of diagnosis ( 14 patients ) ( Fig 1 ) or subsequently developed some time after the diagnosis of sclerosing cholangitis had been made ( nine patients ) . |
| 23 | Taylor supposed originally that slip in ductile crystals was due entirely to those dislocations which were present initially in the crystal due to the accidents of imperfect growth . |
| 24 | All further investigations were negative apart from the finding of gall stones in three patients . |
| 25 | ‘ No , they were all completely off the cuff . |
| 26 | When at last we were all safely in a carriage , he would saunter off to buy a paper , and other people were coming in . |
| 27 | After five minutes they were well away from the school , chasing along the road , laughing and yelling as they pitched the ball back and forth between them . |
| 28 | In some extraordinary manner the children seemed better able to cope with their parents ' injuries when they were well away from the hospital . |
| 29 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |
| 30 | Sales of 's OMEGA pet food products have continued to rise dramatically during recent years and plans for additional production facilities were well underway by the spring of 1988 . |