Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [pron] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following details of courses were sent to us recently but we were unable to include them in an earlier issue . |
| 2 | The day-to-day operation of power stations remained under the control of the six National Grid Control Centres , which ( now they were freed from the financial provisions which had governed their relationship to the independent undertakings ) were able to run them in a more efficient merit order , reducing the cost of generation . |
| 3 | The day her mother was due to put her in an institution Ursula Findlay , a nurse from Gloucestershire visited the ward . |
| 4 | I think it would have been perhaps better if you , somehow er , maybe er I du n no , you could erm , nothing to do with you so you ri you 're not in a position to be able to move them erm but if it was possible to put them in a , a different situation I think would have made a more interesting picture . |
| 5 | The realization that I had an incurable disease that was likely to kill me in a few years was a bit of a shock . |
| 6 | Ianthe did not think of asking John to accompany her , because it was difficult to imagine him in a church . |
| 7 | ( When I practised this meditation , while writing this chapter , I was surprised to find myself in a small , dusty American town in the days of the Western . |