Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her lips were dry with emotion . |
| 2 | Orcadians were used to building wherever they liked since they never equated physical and social isolation . |
| 3 | They fanned out , their feet far stealthier on the undergrowth of smooth-skinned roots and tumbled vines than the animals they were used to stalking . |
| 4 | Small dogs were used to decoy the ducks , and large numbers were taken each winter . |
| 5 | But this did n't excite too much attention as by this time Halling folk were used to walking , and only used the railway over longer distances . |
| 6 | As with all farm workers during the last century , Dad 's family were used to poverty — never any sweets or treats and barely enough money to exist . |
| 7 | It was not a voice North Americans were used to hearing . |
| 8 | They calculated the energy , and costs , that would result if the wood were used to fuel highly efficient cogenerating power stations , where both the electric power generated by steam , and the waste heat , are used . |
| 9 | The nurses were well trained in dealing with rich patients who were used to doing as they pleased and often disliked accepting the discipline of routine ; they knew that the very old , the alcoholics , and the more than slightly batty patients ( called ‘ eccentric ’ ) had to be carefully supervised . |
| 10 | The Sequenase Version 2.0 ( United States Biochemical ) and 35 S-dATP ( Amersham ) were used to sequence cDNA clones . |
| 11 | Murty Killilea and Padraig Kelly were outstanding in defence , with Joe McGrath proving his worth in attack . |
| 12 | The Harcourts were friendly with royalty and there is no doubt that a lot of very important people will have dined off this service . |
| 13 | Bodies with an ostensibly overseeing role , like the People 's Control Commissions , were half-hearted in operation and often effectively controlled by the people they were supposed to be investigating . |
| 14 | I enjoyed conversation classes , I enjoyed doing more advanced work with what was known as the Philologic Sixth , a small group of eighteen-year-old duds who were doing languages only because they were hopeless at science , but the endless business of ‘ drilling ’ the beginners bored me into stone . |
| 15 | ( Although half the members of the upper house were due for re-election in mid-1992 , elections in the lower house were not due for another two years . ) |
| 16 | It was perhaps as well I could n't find the author — During stage four there was vibration from the front wheels and the drive-shafts were due for replacement . |
| 17 | When the track and the signals at the ageing junction were due for renewal , British Rail had chosen the cheapest option to enable InterCity trains to travel faster at the expense of local services , the inquiry into the 1991 disaster which killed four people and injured 22 , was told . |
| 18 | Rockfall has been responsible for many of the accidents in the range this year , despite the predictable statement from the Chamonix Guides that most were due to incompetence — an inevitable trait of those not climbing with a guide ! |
| 19 | Bickerman argued that in antiquity big enterprises of translation were due to public , not private , initiative . |
| 20 | What is more interesting is to discover how far these were due to industrialisation , and used the same methods and technology as were transforming industry . |
| 21 | But since literacy was already present in early Greece , at a time when the ideal consequences of literacy ( such as logic , metaphysics and objectivity ) had not yet developed , it is impossible to test the extent to which these developments were due to literacy itself . |
| 22 | By the mid-1920s the universal result of the earlier shortage of equipment had become clear : 75 per cent of all cases of letting out land were due to lack of adequate tools . |
| 23 | He said the factory 's problems were due to lack of sales . |
| 24 | Close inspection of the data showed that the context effects were due to inhibition : when preceded by an anomalous context , words took an average of 110 milliseconds longer to identify than when preceded by a row of Xs . |
| 25 | Mercurial changes in painted light were due to fog , not smoke signals . |
| 26 | Professor Ferguson and I said that a routine clinical history and examination ( preferably in private ) were essential in helping to establish the correct diagnosis and treatment of all patients , particularly in people who might be under the mistaken impression that their symptoms were due to allergy . |
| 27 | Gloucestershire 's road safety officer says the vast majority were due to driver error . |
| 28 | Nationwide , 17.6 per cent of all deaths in 1839 were due to TB according to the Registrar-General 's first national analysis of causes of death . |
| 29 | Many of the feasts , fasts and shortages were due to production scarcities caused by storage limitations . |
| 30 | Almost 60 per cent of the annual fertility rate change in the upturn and in the downturn of the US baby boom were due to tempo changes rather than changes in final family size ( Ryder 1980 ) . |