Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Nicholas Fairbairn , a former Solicitor-General for Scotland , said some lawyers were deliberately spinning out cases and were on to a meal ticket . |
| 2 | We were on to the pudding course by now and I was attacking a delicious crème brûlée with great gusto , while Sally sensibly preferred the fresh fruit salad . |
| 3 | The lights were on in the Incident Room . |
| 4 | Since the lawmakers were mostly of the creditor class , their attitude was to retain a statute by which they could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtor and his detention at their will . |
| 5 | Think what sort of murders were most in the public eye at the period you want to write about , because there are fashions in murder . |
| 6 | The guns were all along the river bank as far as I could see . |
| 7 | For example , recall that when anyone aged thirty today was born , computers were rare ; the standard equipment in all offices was a manual typewriter ; jumbo jets were only at the development stage ; transatlantic phone calls went by cable , not satellite ; and television was virtually unseen outside the developed world . |
| 8 | He sighed , ‘ Maria Luisa had spoken to Fernando and you were together at the Casa Pinar and I thought everything was hunky-dory — ’ |
| 9 | I did elicit the information that Fishbane was five years ahead of him and that briefly they were together in the school choir . ’ |
| 10 | A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring . |
| 11 | We were in with a medal chance . |
| 12 | At the end of the collation the objects of this relentless pedagogical experiment were suddenly in the drawing room . |
| 13 | Attendances were down at the North West Rally in Cheadle but it was an excellent day , and everyone enjoyed Jean Parmiter 's teacher . |
| 14 | They were down in the order book at four and eight pence . |
| 15 | The pupils carried out the project while some of their year nine colleagues were away on an exchange visit to Germany . |
| 16 | There must be equality of rights for all citizens regardless of nationality ; and there could be no excuse for discrimination against any of them , nor for ‘ extremist gatherings ’ which had terrorised local people who were not of the majority affiliation . |
| 17 | From what has been said above , it will be clear that the Oxford English Dictionary Department would not be what it is , if it were not for the Supplement project lying at the heart of its work . |
| 18 | It would be idle to speculate on what the figures might have been if it were not for the security situation . |
| 19 | That was removed from 16 to 18-year-olds who were not on a Government course or in full-time education . |
| 20 | The people that were left behind such as the section leaders — the gunnery leader , flight engineer leader , navigation leader and one or two people that were not on the battle order for that night , would meet these people and speak to them . |
| 21 | I was once offered a John Wesley letter which had the slight blemish of being written on paper watermarked some thirty years after the evangelist died , and on another occasion a letter from a supposed Trafalgar seaman , mentioning officers and members of the crew who were not on the muster roll of the ship concerned . |
| 22 | But then terrific top-end power and tarmac-scorching standing starts were not on the design team 's agenda . |
| 23 | Losses which were not under the insurance safety net — such as product loss or damage , investigation costs and loss of corporate image — were also accounted for ; these were the uninsured losses . |
| 24 | Wonderful Town ( ) is not precisely an ‘ original cast ’ recording ; it 's a recording of the television version made in 1958 , five years after the show was first staged , but only Jacquelyn McKeever ( excellent as Eileen ) and lead man Sydney Chaplin were not in the stage version . |
| 25 | Those who had already received the carapace and graduated to the status of probationer-superhumanity were elsewhere in the galaxy fighting as terror troops . |
| 26 | But they were just at the design stage when early on a July morning in 1978 twelve passengers died in a fire on Mark 1 sleeping cars of the Penzance to Paddington overnight train . |
| 27 | The early starters were already on the practice ground and the putting green . |
| 28 | Aunt Tone and the family 's two children , Josh and Becky , and Becky 's infant daughter , Iona , were already in the dining room , filling it with bustle and chat . |
| 29 | But Graham Gooch 's team were quickly on the back foot in the first round of the Benson and Hedges Cup . |
| 30 | We had to , of course , make a one million pound reduction following the S S A the final S S A announcement which Heseltine made about three weeks ago , but we were always at the capping limit , and I think |