Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were broken off abruptly when the man saw Isabel sharing the saddle with fitzAlan . |
| 2 | Words which appear early in the lists were remembered more easily as the subjects had more opportunity to rehearse these after being read than the rest of the words in the list . |
| 3 | Richard Norton-Taylor adds : Contingency plans for the use of troops in ambulance disputes were drawn up shortly after the Government came to power in 1979 , Whitehall documents show . |
| 4 | Richard Norton-Taylor adds : Contingency plans for the use of troops in ambulance disputes were drawn up shortly after the Government came to power in 1979 , Whitehall documents show . |
| 5 | The values indicate that , given the assumptions made about firms ' costs , the dominant firms were acting slightly more competitively than Cournot while the blenders were acting less competitively than Cournot . |
| 6 | In fact his father-in-law had congratulated him on the perfectly splendid bit of crackling Hugh had in his arms in Chancery Lane , and naturally mum was the word , and his lips were sealed as far as Molly Coddle was concerned . |
| 7 | In fact Miss Mowlam 's ears were ringing more loudly than the tills as the people made their feelings known . |
| 8 | The demand for reserve currencies was growing more quickly than the supply of gold , so a liquidity shortage could only be avoided if the supply of dollars was increased . |
| 9 | One of the first major pieces of legislation controlling what information went on packets was passed as recently as 1953 . |
| 10 | The silk shawl she draped over her shoulders winter and summer was in place ; her mother of pearl brooch was at her neck as it should be and her shoes were shining as immaculately as ever . |
| 11 | John Alderson made a case for the reintroduction of community policing in 1982 ( Alderson 1982 , also see 1979 ) , but its advantages were recognized much earlier when the House of Commons Select Committee on Race Relations examined relations between the police and ethnic minorities in 1972 , and in 1976 a report from the National Police College placed a central emphasis upon it ( Pope 1976 ) . |
| 12 | The cathedral was begun in the early thirteenth century and building continued till after 1300 , while a later choir and chapels were added as late as 1520 . |
| 13 | In sharp contrast , the returns for 1992 showed an excess of 42 per cent of companies were spending more rather than less on R&D — 9 per cent higher than had been anticipated on the basis of previous declaration by companies for their planned expenditure for the year . |
| 14 | Even the spread of increased educational opportunities to rural areas was opposed as late as 1944 on the grounds that farm workers would no longer ‘ know their place ’ . |
| 15 | The ships soon lost sight of each other and for three days were tossed violently about while cannon , horses , weapons and even food were thrown overboard to lighten them . |
| 16 | Despite the Geneva conference requirement that heavy weapons in the area be placed under UN supervision from Sept. 12 [ see above ] , renewed artillery attacks were reported as early as Sept. 14 in Sarajevo ( which was suffering severe water and electricity shortages as supply lines were interrupted ) . |
| 17 | The Stock Exchange of Singapore was incorporated in 1973 and electronic trading boards were introduced as early as 1982 . |
| 18 | The research of the great ecologist David Lack ( 1954 ) showed for example that in many bird species of temperate zones , individuals were reproducing as fast as they were able and that the subsequent population was cut back every year by winter mortality . |
| 19 | Things were going as badly as they could . |
| 20 | This non-equivalence between the optimal tariff and quota is in accord with Hwang and Mai 's ( 1988 ) results that domestic prices will be higher if initially the domestic firms were playing more competitively than Cournot . |
| 21 | These figures were confirmed even more when we saw when we saw that we spent twenty five pound more a head of population on our schools than the average Metropolitan District . |
| 22 | Indeed over his three and a half years in office new problems were added as quickly as others were solved or eased . |
| 23 | True , his western armies were pushing forward rapidly as planned , but danger lay even in this , for the troops were becoming exhausted and famished as they moved far ahead of their supply trains . |
| 24 | It seemed to most onlookers that the first step to take to correct the disparity between the teams was to practise as hard as possible , especially as the West Indians were doing just that themselves ; Gower and Tony Brown , the manager , however , enforced no such ruling . |
| 25 | International trade in goods was liberalised far sooner than that in financial services . |
| 26 | Peregrines were investigated less intensively than kestrels because of their known preference for birds as opposed to mammalian prey . |
| 27 | Agronomic techniques were developed rather later than mechanical ones , following the identification of the importance of rainsplash as a major element in the erosion process . |
| 28 | The evening was dropping like velvet and the lagoon was fading to a deep dusky richness in which the curving palms were reflected as cleanly as though the water were a dark-silvered looking-glass . |
| 29 | Apart from the Ukrainophile Kirillo-Methodian Society , which the regime thought particularly dangerous because of its obsessive concern for the unity of the empire , no circle of intellectuals was treated as harshly as the Petrashevtsy in the period between 1826 and 1848 . |
| 30 | Other Coalition Liberals were disliked as warmly as Lloyd George , more for their present policies than for their past . |