Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pity , in a way , that the dancing would be merely metaphorical : this was a house large enough to accommodate dancing , but their friends were not of the dancing classes , would gaze in astonishment , alarm , sophisticated horror , intellectual condemnation , at dancing in a private house … another year , perhaps , for the dancing . |
| 2 | They were not like the crew quarters , but reminded him more of a hospital , even before he saw what appeared to be an operating theatre . |
| 3 | This included a number of payments to men and women for various services rendered but who were not in every case employees as such . |
| 4 | That is the nature of the self-punishment which Britain inflicted on itself by maintaining in its law the assertion that citizens of other countries , wholly independent and acknowledging a different head of state , were nevertheless in every respect members of the single category of ‘ British subjects ’ , possessing within the United Kingdom the rights that attach to that category . |
| 5 | When voting began at eight in the morning in Kompong Cham , the country 's most populous province , thousands of damp Cambodians were already outside the polling stations . |
| 6 | And these were usually on the training grounds |
| 7 | Such was their condition — they were pulled off the ice last week ‘ more dead than alive ’ — that Sir Ranulph and Dr Stroud were off to the Army Personnel Research Establishment for tests on the way their bodies held up to it all . |
| 8 | It might suggest that all bets were off on the release stakes or , ever hopeful , it might be that they were planning on letting us go and did n't want us to be able to give any hint , however vague , as to the whereabouts of the Yanks . |
| 9 | Firefighters were still at the Auto Sleepers factory today investigating the cause of the fire which destroyed a whole production line and a number of caravans . |
| 10 | As a result , the exchange 's members were forced to close out their positions while voters were still at the polling booths . |
| 11 | Actors have not yet been announced , but the appealing rumour that Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder were up for the lead roles has been denied |
| 12 | Yeah , we er , we won the , the losers trophy twice , we got first round trophy , got knocked out the first round to go to that , me , half , half the decent teams were knocked out in the first round , you know , we were , we were playing sort of , that , that was , nine times out of ten that was the real cup , I mean we , we were up against the league champions once |
| 13 | Yet now some of these standoffish people from an introvert world were out on the GalacNet lines , coming to meet Mala and me . |
| 14 | Mike O'Connor , a member of the village community association and a leading campaigner , said the association and Horseheath Parish Council were strongly against the council plans . |
| 15 | Commercial people lagged behind , but they were ahead of the textile workers , the first working-class group to show strong limitation . |
| 16 | My view was mostly of the aluminium saucepans dangling from a rail above the range . |
| 17 | From what the copper had said , though , it was somewhere between the North Downs Way country park and Brands Hatch . |
| 18 | I mean , you know , when I was student at L S E , you know , the front of the , of the demonstration was down at the Law Courts , the back was still in , at , at er , Oxford Street , or something , you know . |
| 19 | So there was no reason for crew reliefs except in emergencies , especially as the working season was only for the summer months . |
| 20 | She had n't planned for a witness , but it seemed that she had one ; the woman was over on the iron steps , watching her across the restaurant deck . |
| 21 | BROTHER CADFAEL had made one journey to the hamlet of Preston in search of the young man Aldhelm , only to find that he was away in the riverside fields of the manor of Upton , busy with the lambing , for the season had been complicated by having to retrieve some of the ewes in haste from the rising water , and the shepherds were working all the hours of the day . |
| 22 | She was just inside the workshop doors with the fertiliser shed behind her , stacked to the roof with one-tonne sacks . |
| 23 | He was detained in Newgate prison in Dublin in 1797 , but he appears to have taken little part in the 1798 rebellion and was not among the state prisoners incarcerated after its suppression . |
| 24 | So it was off to the department stores of central London with a LASMO cheque to kit himself out with warm and waterproof clothes as a matter of some urgency . |
| 25 | It was more like the noise dogs make sometimes — a see-sawing musical phrase , as if it was talking to someone you could n't see . |
| 26 | It was also during the winter months that vines were taken down from their wires and their ends tied ( often to the water pipes ) so that they formed a large bow shape . |
| 27 | But I was originally from the street gangs , a New Jersey street fighter , and my concept had always been ‘ watch your own back ’ , and there was no such thing as ‘ peace and love ’ . |
| 28 | My theory is that living in Lincolnshire most roads consist of hundred yard straights followed by a 90° bend to the right then another hundred yard straight and a 90° bend to the left — just to go round somebody 's field — in fact if it was n't for the drainage ditches you could travel in straight lines — assuming you have a Land Rover that is . |
| 29 | The N1 cam was then outside the point cams . |
| 30 | In 1992 , Sara 's son , Sonnie ( Palamine Cherish the Dream ) was judged top Special Puppy at only 10 months , and this year he was again among the award winners , being voted best Special Yearling . |