Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , the solutions to the problems were rarely of the government 's devising . |
| 2 | Some were only on a month 's loan . |
| 3 | Those of them which were not about the Englishman 's standard of living ( no peasant wooden shoes and no Irish potatoes ) were shared by many of the " middling people " ; these were the issues and they were more important than any lingering popular Jacobitism , although that sentiment certainly existed . |
| 4 | But I think it 's fair to say that the changes in the n nine , early nineteen eighties particularly those which gave the unions a predominant position in choosing the leader , were not of the unions ' making , certainly not of the G M B's making , as I know from personal experience at the time . |
| 5 | Perhaps the jeweller she kept house for could read , but the things Sarah wanted to say were not for a stranger 's eyes . |
| 6 | As far as I know , the all the people who voted er for the amendment , will continue to do so and a great many of of those who voted against it and were quite unaw were not at the time a fully aware of what is proposed , er may well change their mind . |
| 7 | I did , you 'll have to forgive me , I mean I think for the sake of those who were not at the meeting erm what we should really say is that actually said that he wanted to hear what kind of a parish we are so that he could attempt to match the , the incoming priest with you know the need of the parish . |
| 8 | Two students in particular , Jane and Mark , embody many of the problems encountered by those students who were not amongst the department 's high-flyers . |
| 9 | In both cases their parents took decisions for them which , in my view , were not in the boys ' best interests . |
| 10 | If the consignor wanted to ensure that no person other than the consignee or the lawful holder of the bill could claim delivery , he could stipulate that delivery required production of all the copies or parts of the set that were not in the master 's possession . |
| 11 | In 1739 , for example , the Duke of Montrose was advised that the gentlemen of Stirlingshire had determined to enliven the normal Michaelmas proceedings with an assembly and race meeting , a project whose promoters were not among the duke 's political friends . |
| 12 | Obviously these latter disasters were largely outside the President 's control , but the generally poor state of his relations with congress was not inevitable . |
| 13 | She nursed his ailments too , and with a needle from a certain yucca picked out the chigoes from his feet , neatly , so as not to burst the sac in which the nits were hatching and release them into his flesh : the insects between his pink and white toes were just like a shrimp 's roe . |
| 14 | So you were always , you were always faced with this er coming from the membership you know , that we were always like the cow 's tail you know , we 'll always be behind . |
| 15 | Last night Carol 's distraught parents , from Southport , Merseyside , were still at the newly-weds ' home in Los Angeles . |
| 16 | If , if the barriers were down er and you were still on the railway er th ah there 's only way you can escape . |
| 17 | When Jarvis came to take over the house , although a good many people had been inside it and others had lived in it , the chair and the stool were still in the bellringer 's room . |
| 18 | Alexandra Loyd , her cousin Diana Wake-Walker and Claire Pratt , the daughter of her godmother Sarah Pratt , were also at the all-girls ' boarding-school near Diss in Norfolk . |
| 19 | A 22-year-old man , from Bath , who suffered serious head injuries , a 16-year-old girl , from Keynsham , a man , aged 24 , from Saltford , and a woman from Brislington , Bristol , were also in the city 's Royal Infirmary . |
| 20 | No , you were out in the kitchen erm he went and I thought oh do n't you dare |
| 21 | Three weeks went by and we were back at the vet 's surgery . |
| 22 | Two hours later we were back at the Aiguille du Midi . |
| 23 | In fact , if it were n't for the program 's stunning speed , you could easily believe you were running a Windows application . |
| 24 | One or two people said that you were n't in the Americans ' league . ‘ |
| 25 | You did n't have to be a genius to work out they were n't from the Lord 's Day Observance Society . |
| 26 | The Swedes at one time , they designed er a stabilizer which was er a type hydraulic rather than a mechanical hydraulic er er stabilizer , and subsequently all the materials that I was talking about , the levers and you know , all the rest of it , were not required , and it shrunk the size of the thing er so low you know , that er the British manufacturers had to look , because the Swedes were then in the market er in a competitive way to take on Brothers or anybody else who were prepared to er produce them under licence . |
| 27 | The reasons for referral were either at the patient 's request because of an unwillingness to undergo an operation ( 70% ) or because the patient was a high operative risk ( 30% ) . |
| 28 | He achieved this only by disobeying his firm 's orders that he should sell certain stocks at certain times , and by slipping in bargains here and there that were actually in the client 's interest . |
| 29 | The grand master of ceremonies , Amir Aslan Afshar , was all for the Shah 's keeping or selling his personal plane . |
| 30 | Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets . |