Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offensive and defensive aims of the war were skilfully linked in the argument deployed in 1352 that the security of England was threatened by the French king 's denial of Edward 's right . |
| 2 | The children were duly legitimized in a bull of August 1201 because the pope wanted the support of Philip Augustus . |
| 3 | In addition , the preamble to the Bill contained a false recital that plans of the lands and a book of reference to such plans containing the names of the owners , lessees and occupiers of the said land were duly deposited with the clerk of the county council . |
| 4 | As time passed , Elena too became the subject of such gestures of endorsement from the West which were duly recorded for the benefit of Romanians , lest they forget by just how an extraordinary couple they were ruled . |
| 5 | Prices of staple goods and fuel were duly increased by an average 19.5 per cent . |
| 6 | Undoubtedly , the alkylated rosanilines ( eg Hofmann violent , 6 ) came out of this cooperation , and were duly added to the firm 's product list . |
| 7 | There was only the slightest of pauses for communal reflection before twenty-nine pairs of shoes were duly launched at the teacher in charge . |
| 8 | THE ‘ green ’ credentials of nuclear power as an alternative to ozone-depleting fossil fuels were overwhelmingly accepted after a debate in the Cambridge Union Engineering Society . |
| 9 | Consumer goods industries were the linchpin , and these were overwhelmingly located in the West Midlands and in and around Greater London . |
| 10 | By 1901 worker activists were overwhelmingly committed to the need for political revolution . |
| 11 | They operated mainly as market centres for local areas and , as such , they were overwhelmingly dominated by the countryside , where wealth and power were concentrated . |
| 12 | Toraja warriors had to die in their own " Rante " , or village circle , if their souls were successfully to return to the stars . |
| 13 | Commissioned in 1914 and attached to the Royal Naval Air Service , he designed two rotary aero-engines , BR1 and BR2 , which were successfully fitted to the Sopwith Camel and Snipe respectively . |
| 14 | Mugabe 's proposals in August to introduce a one-party state were successfully opposed by the majority of the ZANU-PF politburo , who preferred to capitalize on the party 's de facto domination of political life rather than formalize it constitutionally [ see p. 37643 ] . |
| 15 | Acorn Computer Ltd chose the Cebit Hannover Fair to launch a German version of its RISC OS 3 operating system : not much to it you may think — just translate the error messages — unfortunately the company had reckoned without the sheer verbosity of the German language — it took five beta versions before all the Achtung ! messages were successfully squeezed into the ROM . |
| 16 | There charges of corruption were successfully brought against the vice-president , and in November 1629 his resignation from the office was forced . |
| 17 | But they were successfully resisted by a rejectionist front which encompassed a variety of social interests and philosophies , ranging from rural Tory gentry to urban working-class radicals . |
| 18 | Almost , you know and they said they were better , we were right looking at the stage over this time . |
| 19 | In that debate they were powerfully assisted by the shock effects of the communist takeover in Czechoslovakia in February 1948 and by the Soviet blockade of the Western zones in Berlin from the summer of 1948 . |
| 20 | In the half-century between 1787 and 1838 the overall organisational and institutional forms of antislavery were powerfully shaped by the need for meeting the propaganda and political challenge of the West India interest . |
| 21 | But now the whole team were keenly focused on the game . |
| 22 | Moreover , some studies suggested that the crucial floating voters were not characterised by a high degree of interest , involvement , and knowledge , but by ignorance and indifference , and they were less involved in following the election campaign than were those who were keenly attached to a party . |
| 23 | Though scientists were highly critical of the aristocratic amateurishness of many senior army administrators , they were keenly attracted to the image of a militarily organized society . |
| 24 | They were eventually escorted to the airport from where they returned to Bangkok . |
| 25 | The Sultan 's writ was re-established throughout the Oman , except in the mountain fastnesses of the Djebel Akhdar , which were eventually cleared by the SAS in 1959 , while on their way back from Malaya for probable disbandment under the Sandys cuts ! |
| 26 | The next year brought the first indications of the troubles which were eventually to lead to the Goldsmiths ' abandonment of the School a decade later . |
| 27 | The USAF 's speed and altitude requirements were eventually met by the Los Angeles Division of North American Aviation ( NAA ) — but not without first overcoming tremendous technical , design and manufacturing problems . |
| 28 | They were an organisation of " warrior monks " who became so powerful that they were eventually disbanded by the Crown . |
| 29 | Scholars assume that modern Basque derives from the original tongue of the Celtiberians , the ancient people of Spain who were eventually overcome by the Romans . |
| 30 | These were eventually formalized in the Weber-Fechner law which reported a quantitative relationship between stimulus and subjective experience , the sensation increasing in proportion to the logarithm of the magnitude of the physical stimulus . |