Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeremy , 30 , and Ruth Leech were due to marry earlier this month but the love-match was called off because Jeremy had to play a tournament in the States . |
| 2 | The scoreline flattered the Owls , who never had a shot on target and were fortunate to concede only one goal , a stunning 44th minute header by makeshift striker Rob Newman from Mark Robins ' clever cross . |
| 3 | Nearly one-sixth of authorities mentioned that the development of training packages , to be used in-house , and preferably developed by themselves , was needed to expand their training , indicating their belief that this was where expansion would need to come from , and that such training packages were likely to achieve more effective training because they would be tailor made . |
| 4 | IN the final matches of this year 's Five Nations rugby championship , the Welsh are in Paris tomorrow , where Scotland were unlucky to lose early this year . |
| 5 | All failed because they were unable to gain either electoral backing or the support of sections of the existing parties . |
| 6 | Women showed themselves to be remarkably adaptable to the heavy engineering work involved and many of them displayed such interest and versatility that they were able to undertake really high class work such as turning , milling , and drilling of precision components , high grade fitting work , electric and oxy-acetylene welding , crane driving , and operation of power hammers . |
| 7 | More importantly , they were able to offset totally any child-minding costs they incurred while going out to work . |
| 8 | In the control sample the picture was slightly different ; of the 13 who stated a preference at first interview for home care and whom we were able to interview again one year later , six stated an unequivocal preference for home care , five a preference for home care but a recognition of the necessity for , or a competing preference for , institutional care , and two a clear preference for institutional care . |
| 9 | Both of these systems were able to understand relatively unconstrained language for these very narrow domains . |
| 10 | Peasants on crown lands and state peasants , liberated by the Statutes of 1863 and 1866 on broadly similar terms to those of private serfs , were able to buy rather more land on better terms . |
| 11 | This meant that before 1985 societies were able to offer highly competitive interest rates to the typical saver who was liable to income tax . |
| 12 | Help with feeding in the hospital had been poor , mainly because , says Kim , the staff were hard-pressed to give even basic care , let alone the sort of unhurried support often needed to get breastfeeding going . |
| 13 | ‘ But when the new will came to light , you were liable to lose even more money . |
| 14 | Very noteworthy was the imaginative decision to give help and advice to those schools which had shown by their own efforts that their thinking and planning had reached a stage where they were ready to make more effective use of innovative methods and resource materials . |
| 15 | We were silly to take so much sun on our first day , but it was just too nice to go in . ’ |
| 16 | Then Death remembered what was due to happen later that night . |
| 17 | Before quotas , about 50 per cent of the food energy going in to our dairy cows was in the form of cereals : food that could be directly used by man , because in those days it was cost-effective to get as much milk as possible out of individual cows . |
| 18 | However , this proved not to be the case , since even from such a large corpus , it was possible to extract only 560 utterance tokens — an average of less than 11.7 per speaker . |
| 19 | I was delighted to learn recently that Arcam has announced that it will be the first British company in 10 years to make a cassette deck here in the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | That raid was probably foiled , but at a cost ; a damaged business , a damaged police car and an injured officer , who was lucky to escape more serious harm . |
| 21 | Please enlighten me as to the whereabouts of THE OTHER TWO album , which was supposed to emerge earlier this year . |
| 22 | In future economic efficiency was likely to assume as much importance as the technical side . |
| 23 | This was one area of the farm business that was likely to assume much greater significance in the future and in which wives could play a very important part . |
| 24 | The trade in all his restaurants had been slack over the past couple of weeks , and he was glad to see so many lunchtime diners . |
| 25 | Gabriel was urgent to know just one thing . |
| 26 | The shock of his words had so drained what little strength she had that for a moment she was powerless to take even one step . |
| 27 | His career with us ended abruptly when he incurred a nasty knee injury in the game at Watford in the last day of 1938 and was unable to play again that season , so that there are still fans at Selhurst Park who will tell you that that loss cost Palace the single promotion place to Division |
| 28 | The field-worker was able to spend as much time in the field as the principal investigator thought necessary , and no restrictions were placed on her going out on patrol , travelling in vehicles , or going to incidents of routine police duty . |
| 29 | On April 29 , 1990 , after two days and two nights of filibustering by Communists , Rocard forced through a guillotine measure , transforming the Renault motor company from a régie ( which worked for the " exclusive interest of the nation " , was not subject to the same financial controls as ordinary companies , did not until 1970 have any share capital , was able to implement more progressive wage and labour policies , and remained ultimately under Ministry of Industry control ) into an ordinary public limited company . |
| 30 | She showed that , tissue weight for tissue weight , a dog-whelk with an elongated shell was able to retain far more water within its shell than could a squat one . |