Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Australia news of the split came at 3am Sydney time , and soon after talk-back radio shows were inviting comment from night-owl listeners . |
| 2 | were involuntary witnesses of wholly unnecessary violence inflicted by uniformed Blackshirts on interrupters . |
| 3 | At 31 December 1992 there were outstanding options under various employee share option schemes , exercisable during the years 1993 to 2002 , to acquire 9,668,454 ordinary shares of the company at prices ranging from £0.74 to £4.75 per share . |
| 4 | There were outstanding performances in the field events from Kenneth Churchill ( Middlesbrough ) , Elaine Ord ( Bedlington ) and Denis Ross ( Stockton ) all of whom won their classes in the shot , discus and javelin . |
| 5 | He was supported by a band of younger doctors , of whom Leonard Colebrook and Alexander Fleming were outstanding characters in the search to cure infectious diseases . |
| 6 | ‘ At the same time she knew that there were outstanding mortgages on the house amounting to at least £36,000 and she was reluctant to put the family home at risk by borrowing more money which would virtually leave them without an equity . |
| 7 | There were outstanding loans of £198,599 3/2d. on the assets of the transferred undertaking , which had to be paid by London Transport . |
| 8 | What were needed , and gradually emerged between 1900 and 1940 , were technical methods for investigating large molecules . |
| 9 | Furthermore , the idea that nations were indestructible components of social life was an historical fantasy . |
| 10 | The six interviewees were retired people from Dudley . |
| 11 | On the other hand , order out of chaos and the rebirth of a defeated nation were admirable reasons for being attracted to Fascism , yet they were n't the real ones in her case , and even if Hitler had mesmerised her very conclusively for a time , she was older and wiser now and able to revise her view of a man who could change his principles so casually in the light of expediency . |
| 12 | It was his misfortune that what were admirable qualities in a scholar and pastor were defects in a reluctant politician . |
| 13 | But resident tutors were much appreciated by the WEA : they were admirable colleagues for the tutor-organisers , doing what they could to help and advise the branches in their counties , and they had a particular responsibility for promoting Tutorial Classes . |
| 14 | Even stilled , the great pistons were ample evidence of the power it could unleash , driving it like the mighty wheels of a train . |
| 15 | Because labour was cheap , there were ample advantages in cultivating the demesne , and , because land was scarce , the lord had the whip-hand also if he wished a cash rent in lieu of labour services . |
| 16 | The bloody attempt to kidnap Princess Anne on the Mall just yards from Buckingham Palace and the successful break-in to the Queen 's bedroom by an unemployed labourer , Michael Fagan were ample proof of the constant danger the royal family faced . |
| 17 | Only one-third claimed to be confident in what they were doing and , like the other subjects in this question , there were ample opportunities for training to improve their abilities . |
| 18 | There were ample precedents for such a notion . |
| 19 | There were 850 complaints about computer and software advertising in 1992 , so it pays to be able to read between the lines of an advert . |
| 20 | There were 850 complaints about computer and software advertising in 1992 , so it pays to be able to read between the lines of an advert . |
| 21 | On Sept. 20 , in Estonia 's first post-independence elections , the right-wing nationalist Fatherland group ( Isamaa ) and other right-wing parties won a strong position in the Parliament ( Riigikogu ) ; there were 633 candidates for 101 seats , elected by a complex system of proportional representation . |
| 22 | Already they were fifty feet above the ground , and rising . |
| 23 | There were Israeli attacks inside Beirut itself . |
| 24 | And each one of them felt the patches , strains and gaps in their craft as if they were weak places in their own bodies . |
| 25 | Some ( or all ) of the materials of the mantle melted and as the temperatures rose the upper boundary of the partially melted material also rose , and by about 3800 Ma ago was sufficiently shallow to provide surface lava through the mare basins which were weak points in the crust . |
| 26 | When the campaign planned was one of aggression outside the principality , there were solid grounds for assisting it , in hopes of booty or even territorial gain . |
| 27 | And er when it come to a vote to try and get anything passed or changed the wee branches were solid voting for the national agreement . |
| 28 | And in the 1950s people did not buy things they could not afford — credit and debt were shameful things to be avoided . |
| 29 | The women were seated straight-backed on the edge of two big cane armchairs , and Robert , his back turned , was looking out of a high arched window . |
| 30 | She looked very pale , there were coaly smudges under her eyes . |