Example sentences of "[was/were] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results were or little significance at the time . |
| 2 | The inclusion criteria were that all subjects were current residents of Busselton , aged between 40 and 65 years in December 1990 , had been randomly selected except for a deliberate male to female bias for the purposes of the sleep study , and serum available from 1969 and 1990 . |
| 3 | But the facts were that most Frenchmen had not been in the Resistance and that the Resistance itself was divided into different groups . |
| 4 | Just just to show that erm well they just were that those sort of people you know . |
| 5 | Other uncontested stipulations were that any candidate for the CCD had to be " over 21 , a practising citizen and be elected in the election registry of Peru " . |
| 6 | It is not surprising that the general trends for the indigenous population of the Russian colony of Siberia from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century were that some individuals , mainly ‘ chiefs ’ or traders , adapted to the ways of their conquerors and became successful according to the standards of Russian society , while the mass of their compatriots , exploited by the Russian system and lacking any means of redress , fell increasingly into poverty and degradation . |
| 7 | I was surprised at the violence of his remorse — after all , he had only hit me — and I remember thinking , quite irrelevantly , how much more true to life the old dramatists were than modern ones , making their characters utter loud cries and throw themselves about the stage in moments of anguish , rather than deliver their parts poker-faced , through stiff lips . |
| 8 | All the craftsmen took a real pride in their work , receiving only one shilling and threepence an hour but still realising how much better off they were than previous generations . |
| 9 | Now that we could relax a bit , we began to realise just how tired we all were and many girls came down with minor ailments , such as skin rashes and tonsilitis . |
| 10 | you insurance them centrally as it were and each resident has to pay part of the insurance cost ? |
| 11 | Now she was where we were and that office junior turned up she would have gone for there and I prob bet she will probably be quite |
| 12 | Rubie 's Choice appeared to blow up at Marks Tey and should have come on for the race , while Zoe Turner , on her home track , can choose between As You Were and Royal Sting . |
| 13 | Whatever lucky chances there were and miraculous escapes , all through history there have been despoliations , deprivations , tearings asunder , deaths and devastations , and among those to whom nothing is restored must be people around us , people we see . |
| 14 | External and internal war produced their victims , of whom Makarenko 's stray youths were but one example . |
| 15 | Finally he pointed out to his mother that there were but two keys to the room and the Shills had one each . |
| 16 | His solitary life had made him an accurate observer of wild creatures , and to him humans were but other creatures , rare , but the most dangerous and observable of all . |
| 17 | There were but six people on board , all of whom were killed and although the event was duly reported in the press and other media as one might expect , the world proceeded with its normal business and within a few days the matter had receded into the background . |
| 18 | The principal questions that the Chiefs of Staff Committee addressed were whether long-range missiles would eventually replace the bomber as the delivery system ; and if so , whether , in the meantime , the last generations of bombers needed to be supersonic or not . |
| 19 | And one of the last holidays I took , and I was on my own , I went to the United States for , and Canada for er the , the six weeks I think it was or eight weeks . |
| 20 | The result was that four travellers were now sitting in the airport terminal waiting for the next flight , which was probably full anyway . |
| 21 | The consequence was that intransigent positions were soon staked out on the correct modes of biblical interpretation . |
| 22 | We were the most powerful country in the world and the overwhelming fact was that astonishing amounts of money had come into ordinary people 's homes . |
| 23 | It was that fiendish Perdita Macleod . |
| 24 | Historians have to explain how it was that slower increase up to then permitted an expansion of the home market which the later faster rate of population increase did not reverse . |
| 25 | One view was that integrated circuits were protected by copyright through drawings or photographs as most of the masks used in the manufacturing process were produced photographically and would be protected as photographs . |
| 26 | The overall effect was that total spending and hence taxation tended to rise faster than the Cabinet really wanted in the long term . |
| 27 | All I knew was that one afternoon while I was at the office in London someone poured petrol through my letter-box at Seaview , along with a note warning me that if I did n't get out of G.W. Fashions there would be other similarly unpleasant incidents to look forward to , and that next time the petrol would be accompanied by a lighted rag . ’ |
| 28 | One possibility which did not exist for Franca , since something in her had already killed it dead , was that one day Jack might tire of Alison , or Alison of Jack . |
| 29 | The old reductionist 's vision was that one day when we knew enough about genes we would be able to predict every detail of every adult 's behaviour . |
| 30 | My worst fear was that one day she would come to the forge and see me working as a common blacksmith , with black face and hands . |