Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents were merely using it as a front to hit back at them over the premises issue . |
| 2 | And they were not having anybody in the mine , with a watch , who could let people know exactly what the time was , and in other words , create a situation where the men might go home before they 'd completed this particular task . |
| 3 | Half the subjects were given this information in advance but the other half were not told anything about the subject matter of the passage . |
| 4 | The films used in this study were , however , relatively short and it was clear that subjects were not describing anything like the total amount of information that was available . |
| 5 | I also advised him that if he were not to accept it on the spot he should defer any decision on it until after he had concluded his coincidental visit to the Province today . |
| 6 | Her two sons had watched the scene from a distance and were soon to report it to the authorities . |
| 7 | The BBC were thus putting themselves in a very difficult journalistic and legal position . |
| 8 | According to a report in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 19 , Mahathir 's position was not being directly challenged , but many senior UMNO leaders were nevertheless positioning themselves for a future succession battle . |
| 9 | Bourdieu wonders how structural anthropologists could be seduced into positing the existence of the rule when informants were just using it as a strategy . |
| 10 | We were already congratulating ourselves on a smooth and successful ascent , but you must beware . |
| 11 | Improvements in firms ' procedures were deemed necessary in many of the firms the Joint Monitoring Unit ( JMU ) visited , but in many cases firms were already implementing them by the time of our visits . |
| 12 | We were once promised something of the sort from Anna Ford back at ITN , but it never happened . |
| 13 | Fourth , and finally , the rejection of the Athenians by the Spartans makes more sense if the Ephialtic reforms are seen as part of a process rather than as an event , that is , if the qualities which the Spartans feared were gradually manifesting themselves over the whole thirty-year period , 487–457 . |
| 14 | The emergent divisions of labour in industrialised society were also a prime means by which modern societies were still sustaining themselves in a relatively conflict-free way . |
| 15 | The Communists were busily isolating themselves from the labour movement ; the Independent Labour Party was about to do the same . |
| 16 | The key words , which were later to become something of a catch-phrase , were ‘ fresh start ’ . |
| 17 | I thought they were out to get me as a punishment . |
| 18 | They were out to get me from the start . |
| 19 | Mr when he gave evidence , assessed the parent 's contribution as quote absolutely amazing really , not just what they did to help the nurses but also in insisting that she was n't stupid , she just could n't talk they made it clear to the nurses and doctors that she could understand and we were n't to treat her like a vegetable . |
| 20 | ‘ When I left my number at your office , I said that you were n't to call me during the day . |
| 21 | We were n't charged anything for the food , so we were there as guests , although everybody else was working but we was given the most comfortable er room to stay , so it , there were quite a few people living there because of this reason , that er people coming from outside looking for a job , they would automatically er obtain the accommodation without being charged for it . |
| 22 | In fact if we were n't doing it as a unison group we 'd probably do it ourselves anyway because of the fact that we 've got nine separate branches and we 'd want to have a bit of erm common , common strategy if you like between the branches anyway . |
| 23 | For instance the , the doctors in the hospitals had a lot of work because people rushed into jogging who were n't fit for it or were n't doing it with the right conditions . |
| 24 | And he could have , he could have , because , then we were importing about three quarters of our food from overseas , there was depression all the time in the thirties , and we were n't growing anything near the amount of food that we needed . |
| 25 | The laughter had subsided , the ladies were folding the coat and dress and were about to lay it on a tissue-papered bed in a cardboard box , when Agnes said , ‘ What size shoes does she take ? |
| 26 | He had to — they were doubtless watching him on the closed-circuit television . |
| 27 | Even when they were nt winning anything except the occasional FA Cup there was hype . |
| 28 | A pipe feeding the power steering system came adrift on the climb oil to pump out of the hydraulic system , and Fisher seized the opportunity to start building a lead that was eventually to carry him to a record fourth successive Lakes victory . |
| 29 | In adopting this chic mode of expression , the nouveau riche was effectively distinguishing itself from the traditional middle classes while at the same time flaunting the fact that it had connoisseurship and taste . |
| 30 | ‘ Naturally , but I could see that he was merely dismissing them as the ravings of an hysterical woman . |