Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The elections were conducted under a new electoral law passed by the NUP-controlled Assembly in October 1989 , under which additional seats were given to the larger parties , thus allowing them to gain the maximum number of seats with the minimum of votes . |
| 2 | The only parts of her anatomy with any feeling in them were the parts that were pressed against the harder parts of Guido . |
| 3 | The northern industrial regions , in contrast , were dominated by the older sectors which had been the basis of earlier expansion . |
| 4 | Two of them , Pompeii and Herculaneum , which were located on the lower flanks of Vesuvius , were particularly badly shaken by the shocks , and some damage was done , but the townspeople were not especially alarmed . |
| 5 | Before Antony Licata styled the alternative look , dashes of golden copper lights were added to the longer areas at the top and sides . |
| 6 | But Owen 's bowmen were swarming along the higher shoulders of Bryn Glas and shooting down upon them , and upon the struggling men-at-arms ; and they had the advantage of better positions and better sighting , and skill and marksmanship at least equal . |
| 7 | Even before 1905 a large minority and probably even a majority of their members were drawn from the lower classes . |
| 8 | It is clear , too , that although most of the Londoners involved were drawn from the poorer classes of society , matters were complicated by factions in the city government . |
| 9 | In the late 1640s , the pre-civil war church was officially proscribed , and its liturgical ceremonies were replaced by the starker services of the Presbyterian Directory of Public Worship . |
| 10 | In my opinion , the sooner that we return to serious discussion about the government of the Province , and about the other considerations that were invested in the earlier talks , the better the people of Northern Ireland will be served . |
| 11 | Problems in providing efficient training were encountered in the remoter areas where adequate facilities were hard to find . |
| 12 | On this occasion they were accompanied over the later stages by Pagon and Sellwood , the two British ladies ' K1s , also bringing up the rear of their class . |
| 13 | Also , although some of the demands which had been made in 1381 were echoed in the later risings , in none of them was there anything so clear-cut in the way of a social programme as the demands put forward at Mile End and Smithfield . |
| 14 | For a long while , Dave was second only to Johnny Byrne among our post-war goalscorers though , of course , all but a handful of ‘ Budgie 's ’ goals were scored in the lower divisions . |
| 15 | Yet all other bishoprics were surpassed by the greater monasteries — Glastonbury , Ely , Bury St Edmund 's , and St Augustine 's Canterbury . |
| 16 | These differences were associated with a higher CSI ( 1.44 ( 0.33 ) v 1.13 ( 0.14 ) , p<0.05 ) and a greater vesicular cholesterol distribution ( 19.7 ( 11.9 ) v 4.4 ( 1.4 ) % , p<0.01 ) in the patients with cholesterol gall stones than the gall stone free patients . |
| 17 | Lining us up on the waste ground behind our barrack block , he had made the original offenders climb a pine tree until their bodies were jammed in the lower branches . |
| 18 | Air miles to Australia were suggested to the richer members of both clans : why could n't the happy couple honeymoon in Brighton ? |
| 19 | In Sewell 's time the course of instruction , lasting generally for two sessions of nine months each , was given in the cooler months of the year , the brief viva voce examinations qualifying for entry to the Royal College 's diploma examinations being held in the unsuitable surroundings of the Freemasons ' tavern . |
| 20 | Although Abadia was respected by the lower ranks , his appointment was understood to have caused widespread resentment amongst senior officers who interpreted it as a breach of the seniority rule , hitherto strictly adhered to . |
| 21 | When this logic was applied to the lower ranks of the armed forces it also carried the gloss that these men were less capable of intellectual control , being more animal and closer to nature . |
| 22 | The harshness of those living-conditions , with the special emphasis on working-class housewives having to feed , clothe and generally look after a large family , was reflected by the lower standards of living , the deprivations all around , widespread poverty , with few families ever having experienced the beneficial effects of a holiday in the country or at the sea-side . |
| 23 | Stone or marble was used for the lower parts of the walls , the upper being of sun-dried brick and timber . |
| 24 | In all cases the broken ore was allowed to fall about the girls ' feet from where it was shovelled by the younger boys and girls and wheeled to the respective piles or hoppers , At all stages waste was thrown aside ready for tramming or barrowing to the spoil heaps . |
| 25 | Preston was founded during the later stages of the Anglo-Saxon invasions and the name means ‘ Priest Town ’ . |
| 26 | Appliances like cookers and water heaters tended to be used at off-peak times , but the use of electric fires was concentrated on the colder times in winter which coincided with system peak demand . |
| 27 | Most of the growth was concentrated in the later decades of the nineteenth century and still more in the first years of the twentieth . |
| 28 | Certainly Cade 's assumption of the name Mortimer , by which he was known in the earlier stages of the revolt , hints at Yorkist connections . |
| 29 | * A small mound ( roughly ‘ T ’ -shaped ? ) of damp sand was made to raise the ball off the ground ( if required ) , for the first shot on every hole and a box of sand for this purpose was located on what was known in the earlier days as the teeing ground , but is now known as the tee , or tee box . |
| 30 | Since ballooning was invented by the Montgolfier brothers more than two hundred years ago the sport has changed . |