Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were rather like the red-bands or trusties in British prisons . |
| 2 | Lights were on in the shops and houses as Rain and Oliver approached the Bar de la Marine . |
| 3 | The young stars were all over the newspapers and fan magazines , and Nicholson loved to read and hear about their adventures . |
| 4 | They were all over the walls and ceiling . |
| 5 | His Mum made him sit on one of the chairs that were all round the walls and look at the magazines . |
| 6 | ‘ requiring a seat belt ’ Means per regulation 6 of the Motor Vehicles ( wearing of Seat Belts ) Regulation 1982 : ‘ The classes of vehicle mentioned in regulation 4 are ( a ) a vehicle to which Regulation 46 of the Construction and Use Regulations applies ( see later ) ; and ( b ) a vehicle which is equipped with anchorage points and seat belts and to which that Regulation would apply if it were not for the circumstances that the vehicle — |
| 7 | It could be that the men and women of this corps were already on the streets and that , army trained , they would be better at surveillance . |
| 8 | Roman candles , squibs and rockets were already in the shops and the protesters had armed themselves . |
| 9 | An overseas company dealing in works of art which used premises in London for viewing and storing works of art and controlled access to a secure vault at the premises had an established place of business in Great Britain on the premises , although other works of art not belonging to the company were also on the premises and no outward sign of the company , such as a nameplate , was displayed on the premises . |
| 10 | In 1988 Ian Brady and Myra Hindley , both serving life sentences for murder , were back in the headlines when the Greater Manchester Police re-opened the Moors murders case and discovered the body of another child . |
| 11 | They were on reserve , which meant that they were n't on the shelves but had to be ordered from the stock by a librarian . |
| 12 | When I joined the battle against fluoridation in 1962 , my opposition was wholly on the grounds that it was a treatment of people 's bodies without their consent , or the consent of parents in the case of children — a form of ‘ compulsory mass medication ’ . |
| 13 | Hankies , me mam was on about the bogeys that they pull on the , back behind their bikes |
| 14 | Intake of diary products was less in the patients and probably contributed to the normal faecal fat excretion . |
| 15 | As the colleges sought to establish degree courses other than in teacher education it was naturally towards the humanities that they mainly turned , and attempts to use their existing strengths in those areas , together with opportunities for combined and modularized courses , resulted in often extremely complex proposals . |
| 16 | I was down in the workshops and I 've run a great splinter into my thumb . ’ |
| 17 | Even in its inchoate beginnings , pop culture was forced to turn to the sexually divergent or avant-garde , for it was only in the spaces that they inhabited that this new world could be recognized and could develop . |
| 18 | It was only in the hotels and catering industry that we encountered a widespread use of temporary working which was not only called casual working by the parties concerned but which also was likely to be , or had been , unequivocally accepted as such by labour courts . |
| 19 | The book had been written in haste , he charmingly tells us in the Preface , so that the first part was already at the printers before the second part was written . |
| 20 | The processes of stock selection had forced many staff to look at what was already on the shelves and what new material was available . |
| 21 | Captain Tupper , calling off a strike of fishermen in which he was engaged in August 1914 declared simply that " our fight was not with the employers but with another force which had attacked all that was ours " . |
| 22 | Gangs of men were at work trying to rescue the contents of the burning shacks , going from one to another , putting out the fires ; or so I thought till with a shock it came to me that these were no rescuers but incendiaries , that the battle I saw them waging was not with the flames but with the rain . |
| 23 | But while it would be wrong to minimize the hold of this movement , particularly in the south of France and in the Balkans , and especially between Bulgaria and Constantinople , the major threat to the future of the Church was not from the heretics but from the popular movements that sought to restore the laity 's role in the life of the Church . |
| 24 | Prince Charles Edward was not among the runaways although to rescue him had been the task force 's real objective . |
| 25 | At first they never went round The Courts ; the route was always to the outskirts and to where houses had gardens , small or large . |
| 26 | He and Chris Grant , on The Thinker , jumped the last together , but it was always on the cards that McCourt would have the upper hand . |
| 27 | He was still at the barriers that funnelled the mob into a line under the cynical eyes of a guard when she struggled up behind him . |
| 28 | The duty sergeant told me that Bert Shorrocks was still in the cells and due up in front of the beak that afternoon , but they had n't set eyes on my old man the whole weekend . |
| 29 | But there was no time to give this disturbing idea attention ; Tealtaoich was nearly at the Trees and the Trees were grouped together watching him and waiting for him in complete silence and it was important not to miss a single instant of any of it . |
| 30 | So Saturday evening was back to the papers and then back home , usually about seven , mostly walking because you could n't afford the penny for the tram , no ha'penny fares , just a penny , w . |