Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The early versions of this package were subject to quite a lot of criticism , mainly because the user interface of dBFast made little or no use of the fact that you were working in Windows . |
| 2 | By the 1960s , wild breeding colonies were present in almost every area where ranches had been established . |
| 3 | The end-product was interpreted and enforced by judges who were independent of both the legislature and the executive and whose jobs were guaranteed regardless of how inconvenient they proved to be . |
| 4 | In some areas they were able to further the cause of reform through their positions on the bench of justices . |
| 5 | It was found that there were problems which were common to both the payroll and the interface projects enabling them to be solved by the same remedy . |
| 6 | They were transitional in almost every respect including that of audience composition . |
| 7 | Their Lordships , however , mindful that one of the recommended courses open to the Court of Appeal is to order a new trial , are of the opinion that on the evidence adduced at the original trial the judge was right to direct the jury as he did . |
| 8 | Rain spoiled the opening day of Durham 's first match as a first-class county to the extent that play was possible for only the morning session , which allowed Paul Parker and John Glendenen to put on 119 in an untroubled manner off 34 overs . |
| 9 | The precipitants to these outbursts were trivial and she was alarmed at both the extent of her anger and her lack of control over it . |
| 10 | The power of the clergy , and their role in the salvation of society , was central to virtually every issue of theological discussion at this time . |
| 11 | In my mind 's beady eye it was white with just a soupçon ( had I known the word soupçon ) of scarlet such as I 'd once seen June Allyson sport in a skating sequence in some Saturday morning picture . |
| 12 | But , dear Christ , they could hardly talk : Paddy with his bashed-in nose , the look of a hog and a missing leg ; and the woman — his wife ? — she was lucky for even a guy like him . |
| 13 | ‘ He was ill for about a week . |
| 14 | Earl , a classmate of North 's from the Naval Academy , was privy to quite a lot , including the diversion . |
| 15 | Finally , how did John Finnegan — known to be close to Smurfit — who was involved in both the UPH and Telecom purchases , fail to alert so important a client ? |
| 16 | But most crucial was the fact that ICI itself became sceptical that this development was good for either the site or its image . |
| 17 | Paul 's verdict : I was impressed by both the performance and flexibility of these trousers . |
| 18 | A similar pattern of age and sex distribution was evident in both the PNK and LU surveys . |
| 19 | In all of the forested areas sampled by Eyre , commercial lumber production was responsible for only a proportion of the deforestation . |
| 20 | Was able to please a customer . |
| 21 | Nicholas had begun to grasp , however , that even the most determined central intervention in Caucasian affairs was unlikely to further the cause of imperial unity . |
| 22 | Its prophecy was inaccurate in both the letter and the spirit . |
| 23 | By 1876 applicants for the German civil service had to pass a special exam in German culture , and German was compulsory in virtually every aspect of public life . |
| 24 | Before everything else , it was essential for both the Emperor and the nation that an Empress be found who could provide an heir . |
| 25 | I was bad for over a week with my neck ! |
| 26 | I was bad for about a week . |
| 27 | That most German people did not want war with England was true by almost every account of neutral witnesses . |
| 28 | The village was quiet with only a couple of old men sitting on a bench outside the church as we drove through the gates of the big house and along the road through the village , passing the Chateau where the Commando dead had been placed on the front lawn shortly after we had entered the village , and during the bitter fighting of the first ten days . |
| 29 | The plaintiff succeeded in her action and was entitled to both the house and the remainder of the deceased 's net estate . |
| 30 | Some woman journalist friend of his had a handicapped daughter and found she was entitled to virtually no help looking after her , whereas if she fostered someone else 's kid she got any number of handouts . |