Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , the Ottoman taxation system , although it bore more heavily on the Christian peasantry than on other inhabitants of the raya , was not as oppressive as were the arbitrary and often extortionate levies made by the medieval Christian rulers in western and central Europe . |
| 2 | ‘ And here it is convenient to refer pointedly to the fact that it is Mr. Matthey , the original lessee , and not the Richardson executors , his assignees , who is defendant to the action and respondent on this appeal , as well as to the further fact that it was these executors , and not Mr. Matthey , who were the real and only actors in the matters to which I have just been referring . |
| 3 | He , and his twin brother James , who became a successful farmer in Logie in Aberdeenshire , were the second and third of the five children of Alexander Gordon , tenant farmer of Miltown of Drum . |
| 4 | Ayliffe was thus first and foremost a Christian gentleman whose principal concerns were the spiritual and social welfare of the deaf and dumb . |
| 5 | All this could come as a shock to your system if you were the shy and reticent student who hid behind more extrovert col-leagues . |
| 6 | Marx was not the first to denounce the wretched condition of the working class in capitalist countries , nor was he the first to point out the apparent anomaly that those who produced the wealth , the workers , were the poorest while those who were apparently useless drones , the capitalists and their associates , were the richest . |
| 7 | Also not covered by the study were the 600,000 or so " liquidators " , the emergency workers who tackled the accident at the time . |
| 8 | As a result the whole rhythm of the team was destroyed , as were the defensive and mid-field units . |
| 9 | Tammuz had enmired himself , no doubt , in a veritable maze of minor and major legal infringements : destruction of Tech-Green equipment and forging documents were the first that sprang to mind . |
| 10 | The visiting party , who were the first and last ever to get a good look at the crater of Perboewetan , found it to be about 1,000 metres in diameter and about fifty metres deep , with a small pit , also about fifty metres deep , in the centre of the crater floor ; it was from this pit that the steam cloud was escaping with a great roar . |
| 11 | But those were the first and last meteorites found until the six week season was ending and the party was preparing to leave Antarctica . |
| 12 | The Bay City Rollers were the first and greatest of the manufactured teenybop pop bands for gurlz . |
| 13 | The most problematic of these , in view of their diversity , were the first and the last . |
| 14 | I promised to myself that I would never write an article about having a baby , never ever write that a baby was a celebration and examination of the mystery of our own being , and of course avoid the trap of believing that we were the first and only couple to have a baby . |
| 15 | Add to this the fact that Apple were the first and , until very recently the only , supplier to offer a complete system their success is no great surprise at all . |
| 16 | Seabirds were the first and most visible casualties of the slick , with up to 20,000 estimated killed . |
| 17 | The beneficiaries of this movement were the new and expanded towns around the city — Bangor , Newtownards , Ballymena , Antrim , and Craigavon . |
| 18 | These were the fifth and sixth centuries , when Byzantine designs were forming themselves from early Christian patterns , and the tenth to thirteenth centuries when more elaborate buildings were erected in a new wave of expansion . |
| 19 | They took trouble to make sure our rooms in the hotel were the best and the result was that this was a very happy film to make . |
| 20 | However , at the time they were the best and most modern cutters we had sailed on and we were all very proud of the fact . |
| 21 | That were the best when she chased him down |
| 22 | Swords were the rarest and most prestigious weapons in early Anglo-Saxon England ( Davidson 1962 ) . |
| 23 | Now they were thinner and leaner and much dirtier and all they were taking with them were the torn and grubby clothes they stood up in . |
| 24 | More evident were the personal and intellectual connections of prominent ministers and scholars and the friendship of educated liberal families clustered round a particular chapel or linking one congregation with another . |
| 25 | Firmly entrenched at the top of the hill were the 7th and 8th Battalions of the NVA 's 29th Infantry Regiment . |
| 26 | The principal beneficiaries of these grants were the middling and lesser nobility . |
| 27 | Two other groups which were under-represented in terms of making such claims were the young and the elderly . |
| 28 | Nor were the moral and ethical themes of the reformers helpful in making the schools appear relevant : discipline , character , conscience , service , and so on . |
| 29 | Opposite and a little to the right were the male and female lavatories , and he could hear the occasional feet , light or heavy , hurried or dilatory , of passing members of staff , and hear the swing of the two doors . |
| 30 | Among the patients were the injured and sick of the army . |