Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was made possible by her great industrial centres , which by 1910 were producing twice as much steel as the British and three times that of the French . |
| 2 | The quarries were situated just below Upper Halling and were linked to the factory by a tramway which crossed the A 228 by level crossing just south of the Church and then passed across the S.E. Railway line by means of a bridge . |
| 3 | But the undeniable fact was that we were trawling in previously loyal BBC viewers who simply preferred the way we presented the news . |
| 4 | At each stage of the dilution Hahnemann subjected his solutions to a succession of powerful shocks by bringing the vials in which they were contained down hard several times on to a firm surface . |
| 5 | The crew were picked up later that day . |
| 6 | Psychometric tests were carried out over six months . |
| 7 | He 'd had thirty five years ' experience , he was looking at th and and in his mind 's eye putting the jigsaw puzzle into the van as it were to work out how much space it would take . |
| 8 | Management of interest rates and the exchange rate were seen as more effective influences . |
| 9 | A POLICE motorcyclist died and two others were injured yesterday when four machines on a training run collided on a busy main road . |
| 10 | The ‘ social contract ’ arrangements , whereby the Labour leadership hoped to secure voluntary wage restraint in exchange for the repeal of the Industrial Relations Act , food subsidies , a rent freeze and other measures , were developing in somewhat shaky manner . |
| 11 | When they came to the Maastricht Treaty on European Union , British negotiators , at least , convinced themselves that they were operating in reasonably acceptable territory . |
| 12 | Second , if it is accepted that the organisations in question were operating in highly competitive markets , then their ability to win orders did necessitate an ability to adjust their manpower levels upwards and downwards and to hold labour costs to a minimum . |
| 13 | After washing , twist taps were not turned off with the paper towel ; and where elbow taps were available , they were used properly only four times ; and when disposing of the paper towel in foot-operated pedal bins , nurses used their hands to open and close the bins . |
| 14 | A heavy rain , we were soaked in about five minutes , soaked to the skin . |
| 15 | Where secondhand goods were sold regularly under standard terms , the correct approach would be to include a provision equivalent to Precedent 4 in the set , either as an alternative to or instead of the standard clauses applying to the quality standards for new goods . |
| 16 | A couple of weeks after Brighton she came into the shop , presuming we were going out together that evening — without having told me what she intended , I 'd arranged to go and see a band with a mate from art college . |
| 17 | Ask the T & G officers what they think to the way they were when the redundancy notices were handed out so full time officers in the |
| 18 | Well , but what happened during the Second World War when all these children were undergoing much more traumatic experiences then ? |
| 19 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 20 | Some patients were brought back routinely four weeks after recanalisation and most four to eight weeks after radiotherapy . |
| 21 | The database staff in Edinburgh and Keyworth were brought together under one management structure in late 1990 . |
| 22 | Even now they were travelling through sparsely inhabited country as they headed further upstate . |
| 23 | Those , mainly Conservative councils , that were spending below the standard spending levels were tempted to spend more and gain more grant ; those that were spending so much that government was giving them no grant could suffer no more penalties ; and all kinds of ingenious methods were used to avoid the penalties through creative accounting . |
| 24 | The we 're coming closer on the er figures for the er staff turnover and I believe that the four percent , which is easily achievable , on the thirty first of December nineteen ninety two the turnover savings were running just below four percent , alright we just cut some of the post out of today 's budget but I still think if we give the wrong messages to the officers er we 're in danger of spending money that we do n't need to . |
| 25 | They were running through thickly forested country , and tension began to mount in the car . |
| 26 | Mr Cordial has been a member of the health authority since 1990 when he decided his previous duties with Yorkshire Regional Health Authority were taking up too much time travelling from his home in Barton . |
| 27 | Guidelines for provisioning ( hitherto unknown in the industry ) were tightened up again this autumn for the second year in succession . |
| 28 | As much as £150,000 of that will go in fees and costs to Laing & Cruickshank , who were taken on only last week . |
| 29 | While the Germans were fighting on enormously wide fronts in Russia and in Italy , the Allies were advancing from the south . |
| 30 | By nineteen forty three individuals were putting aside almost one quarter of their disposable incomes . |