Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There were other places that they loved which were accessible only in the summer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The burst of growth and prosperity in America after 1945 had social consequences that were unprecedented anywhere in the world . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When at last we were all safely in a carriage , he would saunter off to buy a paper , and other people were coming in . |
| 7 | These were important even in the run-up to Suez . |
| 8 | In addition there were those both in the State Department and in the Pentagon who were determined to end Britain 's special nuclear status . |
| 9 | The others in need were those still in the care of their families . |
| 10 | It might be thought that such tenets were unambiguous enough in a democracy to be assured the most rigorous defence . |
| 11 | With a workforce of 91,802 , 10,562 outlets serving meals to the value of £763.8 million a year and a turnover of £1,580,000 , opportunities ranged across many areas , including , craft , location management , purchasing , marketing , sales , personnel , and design and planning and were available both in the UK and overseas . |
| 12 | It was noticeable that Docklands Express and Cool Ground were both together in the middle of the field , neither having yet made a move . |
| 13 | He embalmed a child in 1717 so skilfully that he deceived Peter the Great , who thought the infant was alive yet in a state of normal repose . |
| 14 | ‘ I could have lost my life … ’ and the indignation was rich again in the Major 's voice . |
| 15 | That 's why I presume it was eight o'clock in the morning you see . |
| 16 | Standing in the queue were problems of the economy , of the development of the productive forces , which , with regard to agriculture , was conceivable only in a form of the growth of petty-bourgeois economy . |
| 17 | In this sense , it was interested both in the narrowing of the range of views presented in newspapers and the likelihood that newspapers could be used for political ends . |
| 18 | The south-facing windows caught all the available light which was meagre enough in the winter . |
| 19 | Their frequency , however , when present on an extrasystole per minute basis was similar both in the oxygen and air groups , and between the three monitored periods ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 20 | It was six o'clock in the morning and already the temperature was rising . |
| 21 | It was six o'clock in the evening , four hours since the Deputy Public Prosecutor had summoned Zen to his office in the law courts . |
| 22 | That was lucky really in a way |
| 23 | It was cold here in the doorway ; cold in the century too . |
| 24 | Now , however , it was three o'clock in the morning and all the servants were asleep . |
| 25 | That was all that mattered … and it was three o'clock in the morning . |
| 26 | If armour-plates of internal snobbishness divided millionaires from the rich , and these in turn from the merely comfortable , which was natural enough in a class whose very essence was to climb higher by individual effort , it did not destroy that sense of group consciousness which turned the ‘ middle rank ’ of society into the ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ bourgeoisie ’ . |
| 27 | It was 4 o'clock in the morning when Agnes got up . |
| 28 | He was well ahead in the championship race . |
| 29 | The imperialist attitude was accommodated in his books all the more easily because he put the emphasis on service and sacrifice rather than on nationalist domination or material gain : an approach that may seem hypocritical to present-day readers was sincere enough in a man who set out to be a philanthropist and reformer and became a best-seller . |
| 30 | He was alone now in the baggage-room , surrounded by parcels , cast-off electric fires and typewriters , a step-ladder , two suitcases , a coat-rack on wheels , even several cases of wine . |