Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Lili said there were few enough times when she got the chance really to dress up and she was going to now . |
| 2 | But in the end when he went back she was asleep , and he did n't wake her because there were few enough hours before dawn , and he had to get through a day — a series of days — that would put to the test the most dangerous set of manoeuvres he had ever conducted . |
| 3 | The government insisted that the northern guerrillas were Ethiopian Afar militias , created by the former regime of President Mengistu of Ethiopia , and seeking to " realize their dream of a greater Afaria " embracing the Afars of Ethiopia , Djibouti and Somalia . |
| 4 | The linchpins , after all , were such traditionally unsocialist ( or even anti-socialist ) policies as a very severe incomes policy , a move from direct to indirect taxation , and swingeing cuts in public expenditure in both 1976–7 and 1977–8 . |
| 5 | ‘ Christ , ’ breathed Billy , ‘ you were lucky there mate , that was a pretty big un' for a night tide , I heard it was a twenty seven footer . |
| 6 | Were these merely eddies in the mud on the bottom of the primeval seas or could they have been formed by living organisms ? |
| 7 | But one of the earlier findings which began to cause problems was that the sound of the letters , as well as the features , determined whether or not they were confused so B and D , for example , sound similar therefore they tended to be confused . |
| 8 | And I think we were all slightly sort of surprised that we could have this sort of effect . |
| 9 | Clare and Dawn , and former receptionist Angela Pelling ( who now works in the Transport Department with Hazel Thorpe ) were all previously hairdressers , but are agreed that they much prefer their work at Rentokil . |
| 10 | The followers of a charismatically inspired prophet may , for a while , feel and act as if they were all equally members of God 's elect , but if the community is to survive , the " routinization of charisma " , to use Weber 's term , always recreates a hierarchically ordered social structure . |
| 11 | It was horrible being this age when nobody else was ; they were all either adults or children . |
| 12 | Local resources were probably exploited to satisfy the demand for wool , leather and wood , while spinning , weaving , fulling and possibly dyeing were all essentially part of the normal domestic scene . |
| 13 | The first sets a few months ago were well over £2000 which would put them out of the range of all private and a lot of charter boats . |
| 14 | It were one o'clock Monday I went to pick her up . |
| 15 | Then it was there , the blurry light of the candles and the singing Happy Birthday and the big whoosh … and the clapping , and when the curtains were open again Benny saw the thin young man that her father had been shaking hands with . |
| 16 | Authors ' reply — Altogether 14 men in our study had microalbuminuria on both occasions and 298 were normoalbuminuric both times . |
| 17 | Planes were fuller so airline costs fell . |
| 18 | DeVore might have been lying when he said he had no motive in helping her , but he was right about Mach wanting her dead . |
| 19 | SAM the dog was asleep yesterday afternoon , slumbering testimony to yet another unlikely triumph . |
| 20 | The cost of becoming a candidate , all observers agreed , was that thereafter de Gaulle was more widely viewed as a partisan figure . |
| 21 | Mm was n't bad , what er flavour was that then strawberry ? |
| 22 | Work itself with its complicated fluctuation of task was seen as too complicated for a worker to understand and the belief was that only management could do so . |
| 23 | Credit Data told us that their policy was that only information about people under the same name should be passed where there was any possibility of multiple occupancy at a given address , but we felt that at least at the time of our visit this policy might not be clearly understood by the operators themselves , who might give information about people with other names at the given address , too . |
| 24 | An earlier view of second language knowledge was that only children could acquire while adults learned , but Krashen maintains that adults do not lose their language acquisition device and make considerable use of natural learning of the second language . |
| 25 | What makes it worse was that yesterday Andy Cole scored 2 ( out of his 3 ) goals when he was offside . |
| 26 | Inspector : Was that really owl ? |
| 27 | And er , it was funny yesterday morning the birds in the village were singing just in the way they do in the spri , in the spring , you know , first light . |
| 28 | I know in our case , and therefore probably in a lot that it is n't always possible , they 'll always find a way in , but if there was some perhaps advice to people it might bring down this number of complaints , that you could perhaps do before the wasp season begins , I do n't know whether that 's a possibility or not . |
| 29 | She actually wished it was six tomorrow morning and the party was over . |
| 30 | Barnet manager Barry Fry was convinced yesterday afternoon that the £500,000 deal for the forward had been struck between his chairman Stan Flashman and United chief executive Martin Edwards . |