Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were after all a dozen appropriate texts he could have quoted . |
| 2 | They were after all the most active members , including myself . |
| 3 | These were after all the two leading literary journals . |
| 4 | Toward the end of the war , many artillery pieces were of such a size and weight that they could only be moved around on specially strengthened railway freight wagons . |
| 5 | You were like all the rest . |
| 6 | Whatever social class we ascribe to Benjamin the Silversmith will be open to some degree of misinterpretation ; it has been said that ‘ The sixty years of Queen Victoria 's reign were above all the sixty years of the middle-class man ’ , and we could apply that statement to our man 's ability to consolidate and improve upon his standing in society . |
| 7 | It was impossible to conduct a real argument with the Sechem because they were above all the interpreters and arbiters of the Yasa , the authority on the law to whom men turned when they were in dispute . |
| 8 | They were with all the boring stuff at the beginning , the primitive stuff all the other kids used to run past to get to the Frasque fighter . |
| 9 | They were within half a cable of the rocks even now : the cliffs , dotted with perching gulls , towered above them , and the roar of breakers made conversation difficult . |
| 10 | Four-fifths of the flags were within half a mile of the Bab es Zuweyla , the Old Gate , near which was both the Blue Mosque of the Dervishes and the old church of the Copts , the Mar Girgis . |
| 11 | We were in such a state we decided to swallow what seemed the bitter pill of Thatcherism . |
| 12 | Some cars were in such a bad state of repair that standing passengers were banned on them . |
| 13 | It perplexed us that we were in such a remote spot . |
| 14 | I should say at this point that the channel 1 ‘ clip ’ indicator on this example does n't work , although you ca n't blame the British distributors , as we were in such a rush to lay hands on the Acousticube that they did n't have time to check it ( also , pushing the Line/Mic button on channel 2 produces a large bang through the speaker ) . |
| 15 | It was believed that this intervention would be aided if the state had control of certain key industries ( eg coal , railways , gas , electricity distribution ) , which were crucial to post-war economic recovery and which were in such a rundown state that it was unlikely that sufficient private capital would materialise to rejuvenate them . |
| 16 | What is bewildering about ‘ the Arabs ’ seems , in a paradoxical way , to be that this undifferentiated ‘ they ’ are in fact behaving as ‘ we ’ might expect them to behave if ‘ we ’ were in such a position . |
| 17 | When the Duke died of dropsy in 1827 , his financial affairs were in such a state that his executors took the unprecedented step of placing his chattels up at public auction , entrusting the sale to the young James Christie . |
| 18 | ‘ I wanted to tell you the morning you left , but you were in such a hurry to be gone and — ’ |
| 19 | ‘ But , ’ Robbie protested , ‘ I thought you were in such a hurry ? ’ |
| 20 | approximately twenty-five per cent of the children evacuated were in such a filthy condition that they had to be specially treated . |
| 21 | The courts have found breaches of this covenant in situations where homes were in such a poor condition when let that they represented a serious danger to health or safety . |
| 22 | 6 horses were in such a bad state they had to be shot . |
| 23 | Last Thursday central tv showed animal rescue workers at the farm taking away 35 goats suffering from emaciation. 6 horses were in such a bad condition they had to be shot . |
| 24 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 25 | Many salespeople who , to an outsider , seem naturally quick-witted have developed this skill through careful preparation beforehand , imagining themselves as buyers and thinking of objections that they might raise if they were in such a position . |
| 26 | Oh the plants were in such a mess on the oh it was a filthy mess |
| 27 | ‘ I told you we were in all the evening . ’ |
| 28 | They were in general a strange lot , with sharp beaky faces quite unlike the Malays to whom I was accustomed . |
| 29 | Naturally the students who had not been admitted to the courses of their first choice were in general no more than minimally qualified . |
| 30 | This is true , for we know some travellers who were on such a ship . |