Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Aug. 4 the Ciskei military forces were confronted on the borders of the bantustan by 30,000 protesters , who were eventually allowed to hold a rally within Ciskei , following negotiations with Brig. |
| 2 | The winners , for example , will collect only around £5,000 less than the £30,000 total prize money that was on offer for the sub-continent 's 1987 World Cup , which is doubtless why Australia and the West Indies were eventually persuaded to join the party after originally blowing it a loud raspberry . |
| 3 | The fact that a Marine battalion from Basilan and a police unit from Leyte were eventually used to confront the rebels , also suggested that the government lacked confidence in the reliability of the local units based in Mindanao . |
| 4 | The police were mostly invited to provide a presentation in the classroom . |
| 5 | ‘ I think we were all going to pay the price for that ’ , said a member of one of Perth 's oldest families . |
| 6 | It was a hurried occasion , as we were all going to catch a train : the same train , as it turned out , for Donald and I were going home to Oxford , and Ivy and Margaret were going with Herman Schrijver — the Dutch interior decorator who became the closest of her men friends — to spend a week at Woodstock , and walk in the park at Blenheim . |
| 7 | Five of those arrested in July were apparently meeting to plan a commemoration of the anniversary of the death of the PALIPEHUTU leader , Remy Gahutu , in prison in Tanzania in August 1990 . |
| 8 | The new measures were apparently designed to show the administration 's determination to curb state spending , encourage more private investment and accelerate the sale of government assets . |
| 9 | ‘ He journeyed back to his own people , with many adventures along the way ; and when he was in Merkadale he told the Myrcans that they had to stop the killing , that they were only trying to pick an apple that was already in their hands . |
| 10 | This freedom was rapidly curtailed in the 1980s and local authorities were only allowed to spend a fraction of their receipts from sales on new building in any one year . |
| 11 | The children were only allowed to open the present she indicated and only after she had looked at her watch to give the go-ahead to tear the paper off ‘ It was completely mad , ’ says Charles . |
| 12 | The more expert batsmen were only allowed to wield a broomstick the following year , while originality in the style and design of the ‘ willow , was to be positively sought after 1891 . |
| 13 | Whilst others were only allowed to keep the night watch once each week , Nicholas undertook it three times . |
| 14 | Since I was wearing posh garden visiting attire — a pair of thin striped leggings , white leather ballet pumps , a halterneck top , a cute bolero cardigan and dangly earrings — we were only planning to leave the car for some air . |
| 15 | I were only going to have a look . |
| 16 | We were only going to have an hour together . ’ |
| 17 | She had already explained the full landing procedures , the control of the plane by power and rudder , the way the ailerons were only used to hold the plane level . |
| 18 | Such men and women were only permitted to enter the Temple after they had purified themselves in a special ritual bath , a specifically constructed natural gathering of water . |
| 19 | TWO bosses were so determined to beat the recession they slashed their pay to half that of the firm 's teenage trainee . |
| 20 | Only the new trench leading to the banqueting hall cut a brown gash through the green , but even there green moustaches were perhaps beginning to cover the lips of the parapets … the Collector hoped they were : he did not want the ramparts to be washed away . |
| 21 | Authors were generally allowed to use the coppers if they later published their work in a book . |
| 22 | They were not authorized to sell the goods pledged to them however perishable , which meant that many vexatious and expensive lawsuits were commenced against them every day . |
| 23 | The Foreign Office said Britain 's two diplomats in the Libyan capital , who are working under the cover of the Italian embassy , were not summoned to hear the warning . |
| 24 | Others who visited the line subsequently to share the experience were not favoured to witness the sound of the ghostly train . |
| 25 | Even if the issuer were not required to redeem the bonds , they would still be classed as a liability , because of the obligation to pay interest . |
| 26 | Such a request was made to Thomas Dundas by four of the councillors of Dunfermline who pressed him to use his interest with Lord Sandwich to get Midshipman Ebenezer Fish serving on board the Warwick a place as a lieutenant of marines , since the marine officers were not required to have the years of sea-service demanded of naval lieutenants . |
| 27 | Attendance , indeed , would not have cost Britain anything or compromised it in any way , since unlike the meeting called to consider the ECSC , participants at Messina were not required to accept the principle of supranationalism in advance . |
| 28 | No one was moved to burn the place down and the teachers were not encouraged to beat the children : though I had my knuckles painfully rapped on various occasions when I had apparently failed to decode some mysterious message or other . |
| 29 | Provided that the grant of a new licence under this Act shall not be liable to objection on the ground that the members of the licensing board , or any of them , were not qualified to grant a licence . |
| 30 | Under 5.1(12) , however , the election of a board member is not vitiated by a technical defect in the proceedings which has not prejudiced other interested parties in the election , and , under s.2(6) , the grant of a new licence is not to be objected to on the ground that any of the members of the board granting it were not qualified to grant the licence . |