Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farm workers , too , could be persuaded to defer to the locally powerful if the latter were prepared to act in what the farm worker believed to be a legitimate manner . |
| 2 | Once men were released from trying to defend them as scientific documents they were able to listen to what the text was actually saying . |
| 3 | Ariel soon began to pick up some English , especially from Jack Elsey , a nineteen-year-old from Southwark , who 'd been the cook on the outward journey , and was prompt to learn from her the flavours of the island vegetables and herbs , the edible flowers and fruits he 'd never imagined could possibly exist when he was growing up one of the twelve offspring of a Thames waterman . |
| 4 | She , speaking Slovene , had managed to understand their primitive Russian , and they were delighted to have found a civilian who was able to communicate with them a little , and who reminded them of their mothers . |
| 5 | Crime and Punishment was different in that Dostoevsky never supposed lots of people would begin committing Raskolnikov-type murders ; Danilov doing so was enough to produce from him the exclamation ‘ It has happened ! ’ |