Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political party Seats won ODP-MT 78 CNPP-PSD 8 African Democratic Assembly 6 Alliance for Democracy and Federation 4 African Independent Party 3 Movement of Social Democrats 1 Burkinabe Socialist Party 1 Union of Independent Social Democrats 1 Rally of Social Democrats 1 The results of four seats were undeclared as at May 31 . |
| 2 | But the natives were friendly except for a few incidents in Skye . |
| 3 | These were indestructible and to this day I regret ever falling for the slick adverts for trendy green ones . |
| 4 | The coupling constant in both theories was just the electric charge , e ; weak interactions were weak and of short range simply because M w turns out to be so large . |
| 5 | There seems to have been very little , if any , educational advantage in this elaboration , but there certainly was an advantage , in a profession which had become vastly overcrowded , of lengthening the period of education and , when one had finally become a muderris , of providing at least the illusion of advancement by the introduction of a number of grades which were unnecessary except in bureaucratic terms . |
| 6 | Of the 56 signatories of the Declaration of Independence , nine were first or second generation Scots ; nine of General Washington 's 22 brigadier generals were Scots ; nine of the 13 governors of the newly created United States were Scots or of Scots descent , and the Reverend John Witherspoon , formerly Minister of the Laigh Kirk in Paisley , was the only cleric to sign the Declaration of Independence . |
| 7 | In three of the patients , the duodenal biopsies were normal and in the others there was a chronic and acute inflammatory cell infiltrate and evidence of gastric metaplasia . |
| 8 | Many , it is true , shouted enthusiastically that we were right and to be congratulated , but many others were up in arms at our intrepid temerity . |
| 9 | Roberta and Faye were asleep or at their women 's place . |
| 10 | Previously there had always been at least the possibility that it might be wound up after its current voyages were complete but under Cromwell the traders reorganized its joint-stock system so that , while individual owners might sell their shares , the Company was designed to go on trading forever ; and almost all companies founded subsequently were organized in the same way . |
| 11 | Over 1980 – 83 the average level of gross fees for supranational issuers ( i.e. controlling for credit quality ) was 1.84 while over 1984 – 87 they were 1.8 and over 1988 – 90 , 1.57 . |
| 12 | His observations were concise and to the point : ‘ The Ministry of Agriculture wants feral minks to hang up in its pests display . |
| 13 | The pattern of law was provided by an ideal realm of geometrical shapes which were eternal and in a perfect state of absolute rest , like the real world of Parmenides . |
| 14 | American business men were dissatisfied because of the difficulty of communicating with MacArthur and the senior members of SCAP . |
| 15 | His fingers were bloody and in his eyes there was such despair that I could not stand it and went out into the filthy courtyard ’ . |
| 16 | Transport costs were low because of the cheapness of water carriage . |
| 17 | The majority , 78 per cent of males and 75 per cent of females aged 65 + , thought that people were healthier than in their parents ' time . |
| 18 | They believe that the measurements were possible because of the high quality of the samples prepared by the UCLA scientists . |
| 19 | Wherever there appears to be a ‘ mystique ’ about the interviewing — suggestions that these results were possible because of some mystical skills possessed by the interviewer — then one is likely to be moving from social science towards journalism , or special pleading at the very least . |
| 20 | Undoubtedly these evasions were possible because among the clergy as a whole were many who served the king and depended upon his protection against the rigours of canon law , and because the pope , in his defence of the monarchy , undermined the independence and confidence of the prelates . |
| 21 | FOR many years the House of Commons regarded itself as a closed society whose proceedings were private except to the extent that the House itself decided to report them . |
| 22 | But surprisingly prices in Northallerton were lower than for the County Durham pubs although overall Which ? found Yorkshire prices higher than in the North-East . |
| 23 | Death rates of toddlers and children aged 2–3 years whose mothers had moved from urban to rural areas were lower than of children born to non-migrant urban mothers in all but eight and four countries , respectively . |
| 24 | In 1894 , the year of the reconstituted Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union , monthly rates for ABs on steam vessels were lower than at any time since 1888 . |
| 25 | For five species ( Song Thrush , Lesser Whitethroat , Willow Warbler , Blue Tit and Reed Bunting ) , numbers were lower than at any time since the surveys started in 1981 . |
| 26 | Although the Labour vote was still six million , its numbers were lower than at any time since 1910 . |
| 27 | In 1986 , for example , the UK 's reserves ( valued in US dollars ) were lower than in 1979 . |
| 28 | Median and minimum neoterminal ileal blood flow values in patients with inactive Crohn 's disease were lower than in non-Crohn 's disease controls but the differences were not statistically significant ( p>0.05 ) . |
| 29 | Patients with higher grades of endoscopic recurrence ( at least five aphthous ulcers ) and those with active Crohn 's ileitis had similar levels of blood flow , which were lower than in controls . |
| 30 | Last year 's results were lower because of the national postal strike and because of the pay increases , the Post Office said . |