Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this period barriers to trade were high and thus the multinational structure of operationally-independent companies was a necessity . |
| 2 | Many of her gentleman clients were foreign and even the odd Arab prince had come to her office . |
| 3 | Many were convinced that only a proletarian revolution could remove discrimination . |
| 4 | However , the skills required to build such systems were rare and also the required combinations of software and computer hardware were expensive . |
| 5 | ‘ There was n't a ha'porth of prejudice in him — except that the Welsh were marvellous and especially the Welsh-speaking Welsh and most particularly those from Pontrhydyfen and most of all the Jenkins family . |
| 6 | By 1896 La Chapelle was receiving more than a million tonnes , but by now the bulk of it was French and only a small proportion Belgian , testimony to the industrialization that had taken place in the wake of the railways . |
| 7 | From March 1918 it was clear that only a crushing military victory by one or other side would bring ‘ peace ’ . |
| 8 | Still , on-the-move shifting was simple and even a small gearing drop helps . |
| 9 | It was unlikely that even a common language could create a common national spirit to unite Spanish-speaking people divided by the salt , estranging sea , but as long as empires based on the principles of allegiance to a monarch were the dominant form of political organization they were very well adapted to face the problems of expanding and then of ruling new subjects . |
| 10 | For example , the incidental take from squid gill-net fisheries by Taiwan and Korea was unreported and therefore an unknown quantity . |