Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hilltops were marked with earthworks or were traditional beacon sites — summits well placed for line-of-sight communication . |
| 2 | Reprinted by Heinemann in 1956 , these little books are still ( or were last year ) available at 25. 6d. each . |
| 3 | Was the landing gear up or down , or was one leg out of phase with the other ? |
| 4 | ‘ About 45 per cent of land developed for residential use was developed , including land already used for housing purposes , or was vacant land in built-up areas . |
| 5 | ‘ Across the regions , the proportion of land developed for residential use that had been previously developed or was vacant land in built-up areas varied between 33 per cent in the south west to 52 per cent in the south east , and 58 per cent in the north west . ’ |
| 6 | Erm can I just clarify that the thirty million of erm savings , was that actual redundancy costs which took place in ninety two or was that redundancy costs plus the sav commensurate savings which will then benefit ninety three er or was it just the savings ? |
| 7 | Do d do you think your father was unusual in Hirael at that time or or was that kind of behaviour by men accepted ? |
| 8 | ‘ Or was that part of the scheme to turn them off ? ’ |
| 9 | Or was some conditioning or perversion happening to make otherwise decent men into bad people ? |
| 10 | Or was this part of the Mallory myth he had been constructing ? |
| 11 | The level of foreign trade was still low in terms of national income , and the USSR had not become a major trading partner for most of the developed capitalist countries ; nor was interpersonal contact particularly large given the population numbers involved . |
| 12 | Nor was Dalmatian writing confined to poetry and drama . |
| 13 | Nor was such repression restricted to the formerly conflict-ridden south , for even in less socially divided regions like Navarre and Mallorca , where actual military campaigning was non-existent , political executions numbered thousands . |
| 14 | Nor was religious development alone . |
| 15 | It ai n't what 'e 's bin used to , but then nor was that watchman 's job wiv the council . |
| 16 | Interest rate was never judged the most important factor ( nor was total cost of credit ) with things costing up to £100 , and with these even adding in people 's second and third choice factors showed that interest rates only had some importance for about 12 per cent of shoppers . |
| 17 | Nor was official support and encouragement limited to Catholic organisations . |
| 18 | But propaganda even on the mind-numbing scale practised in Romania was not enough to re-educate the people rapidly enough , nor was large-scale brain-surgery practical . |
| 19 | Finally , another of the ‘ new ’ songs , the famous Plaint , ‘ O let me weep , is not in the manuscript at all ( as Shedlock noted ) , nor was any space left for it ; and the score also lacks ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ , a song that was in the first version of the show and actually published in 1692 , in a slim volume entitled Select Songs in the Fairy Queen . |
| 20 | There was no enthusiasm at that time from local residents for such a project , nor was any land available for such housing and it was agreed to take no further action on this . |
| 21 | No services were to be held in the church or chapels on certain forbidden former holy days ; nor was any concourse of idle people to attend church on those days , which included All Souls ( nor the evening or night before ) and those of Saints Catherine , Nicholas , George , Lawrence , Ann , and so on , including Thomas-a-Beckett , Mary Magdalene , the Conception , the Assumption , Wednesdays during the Easter or Whitsuntide weeks all being forbidden by law to be kept as holidays . |
| 22 | In the aftermath of the accident the bodies of the two children were recovered from the wreckage and laid beside the track with the other bodies of the tragedy , but their charred remains were beyond recognition and were never claimed nor was any connection established between them and the other passengers , and in consequence the two children were never identified . |
| 23 | This point apparently passed unnoticed , and the practice was never mentioned again in the review , nor was any acknowledgement of it included in the final report despite protestations by the Head of Department when its contents were being negotiated . |
| 24 | Nor was any attempt made to measure drug pressure , and data on response to other antimalarials were not presented . |
| 25 | Neither of them was present before the judge , nor was any affidavit evidence to a contrary effect presented on their behalf . |
| 26 | Nor was any indication given as to under what circumstances the minority ‘ labelling ’ effect occurred . |
| 27 | No proceedings were taken against them ; but nor was any attention paid to their appeal , and the stone was hurried back to Westminster . |
| 28 | Nor was this resistance to diminish in the post-war period , as will be seen in the next chapter . |
| 29 | Nor was this position unique . |
| 30 | Nor was this proposition ever propounded , so far as I am aware , by Dick Crossman . |