Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Aug. 4 the Ciskei military forces were confronted on the borders of the bantustan by 30,000 protesters , who were eventually allowed to hold a rally within Ciskei , following negotiations with Brig. |
| 2 | The winners , for example , will collect only around £5,000 less than the £30,000 total prize money that was on offer for the sub-continent 's 1987 World Cup , which is doubtless why Australia and the West Indies were eventually persuaded to join the party after originally blowing it a loud raspberry . |
| 3 | The fact that a Marine battalion from Basilan and a police unit from Leyte were eventually used to confront the rebels , also suggested that the government lacked confidence in the reliability of the local units based in Mindanao . |
| 4 | The police were mostly invited to provide a presentation in the classroom . |
| 5 | ‘ I think we were all going to pay the price for that ’ , said a member of one of Perth 's oldest families . |
| 6 | It was a hurried occasion , as we were all going to catch a train : the same train , as it turned out , for Donald and I were going home to Oxford , and Ivy and Margaret were going with Herman Schrijver — the Dutch interior decorator who became the closest of her men friends — to spend a week at Woodstock , and walk in the park at Blenheim . |
| 7 | Five of those arrested in July were apparently meeting to plan a commemoration of the anniversary of the death of the PALIPEHUTU leader , Remy Gahutu , in prison in Tanzania in August 1990 . |
| 8 | The new measures were apparently designed to show the administration 's determination to curb state spending , encourage more private investment and accelerate the sale of government assets . |
| 9 | ‘ He journeyed back to his own people , with many adventures along the way ; and when he was in Merkadale he told the Myrcans that they had to stop the killing , that they were only trying to pick an apple that was already in their hands . |
| 10 | This freedom was rapidly curtailed in the 1980s and local authorities were only allowed to spend a fraction of their receipts from sales on new building in any one year . |
| 11 | The children were only allowed to open the present she indicated and only after she had looked at her watch to give the go-ahead to tear the paper off ‘ It was completely mad , ’ says Charles . |
| 12 | The more expert batsmen were only allowed to wield a broomstick the following year , while originality in the style and design of the ‘ willow , was to be positively sought after 1891 . |
| 13 | Whilst others were only allowed to keep the night watch once each week , Nicholas undertook it three times . |
| 14 | Since I was wearing posh garden visiting attire — a pair of thin striped leggings , white leather ballet pumps , a halterneck top , a cute bolero cardigan and dangly earrings — we were only planning to leave the car for some air . |
| 15 | I were only going to have a look . |
| 16 | We were only going to have an hour together . ’ |
| 17 | She had already explained the full landing procedures , the control of the plane by power and rudder , the way the ailerons were only used to hold the plane level . |
| 18 | Such men and women were only permitted to enter the Temple after they had purified themselves in a special ritual bath , a specifically constructed natural gathering of water . |
| 19 | TWO bosses were so determined to beat the recession they slashed their pay to half that of the firm 's teenage trainee . |
| 20 | Only the new trench leading to the banqueting hall cut a brown gash through the green , but even there green moustaches were perhaps beginning to cover the lips of the parapets … the Collector hoped they were : he did not want the ramparts to be washed away . |
| 21 | Authors were generally allowed to use the coppers if they later published their work in a book . |
| 22 | Someone from the Vienna art gallery arrived to take a death mask , and crowds of people were soon queuing to view the body , which was laid on a bier in a black suit with a cowl over its head . |
| 23 | In truth , as testimonies from both sides bear witness , the combatants felt that the outcome of the conflict was irreversibly decided in favour of the Nationalists in the winter of 1937 – 38 , when Franco 's forces gained control of the town of Teruel , in southern Aragón , and were thus poised to launch an offensive on Catalonia and Valencia . |
| 24 | Wenner and Jagger were finally deciding to kill the paper . |
| 25 | Thus both in the League of Youth and in the expanding local parties , the Left was able to feed on resentment against organizational restrictions which were largely designed to prevent the expansion of the Left within the Labour Party . |
| 26 | ‘ We were told just how important the target was as the Germans were desperately trying to contain the Anzio beachhead . |
| 27 | But others looked as though they were desperately trying to find a way out , gazing to the ceiling deep in thought . |
| 28 | Please remember in these early days — and I am talking before we really started the bomber offensive — we were just trying to halt the mass of Germans who were rolling through Holland and Belgium . |
| 29 | At two-thirty , Patrice , Sarah , Catriona and the boys were just starting to tackle the clearing-up . |
| 30 | A few fields were just starting to leaven the bricks and mortar , but were mostly full of thistles , earmarked for building . |