Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mythic animals are an even stronger reminder that the fresco artists were depicting another world than the everyday one ; it is a symbolic world where general concepts such as fecundity were more important than accuracy of detail . |
| 2 | East of the Rhine in the kingdom of Louis the German , for instance , there were no mints , and there is much less evidence for markets and traders , while in the Middle Kingdom ( Lotharingia ) , the volume of coinage in circulation was much smaller than west of the Meuse . |
| 3 | And the Bonn government was also shocked when news of the celebration at Peenemunde , scheduled for this coming weekend , leaked out . |
| 4 | But for many cities jealousy of Milan was as powerful as hatred of the emperor 's control , and a rival faction formed under Pavia which was for a time loyal to Frederick — a map of the two teams shows in a fascinating way how difficult it was to love one 's neighbour in this world of riotous freedom and traditional internecine feuds . |
| 5 | Lysis of M1-vac-infected T2/TAP1+2 cells was again less than lysis of M1-vac-infected T1 cells . |