Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TNF α+; cells were also seen in Crohn 's granulomas and in the germinal centres of lymphoid follicles : the second were large CD3- cells and were presumably tingible body macrophages . |
| 2 | Wearing the portrait of a military or political leader upon a ring or on a coin mounted as a jewel was an obvious sign of allegiance ; other portraits of unknown individuals were presumably private commemorations . |
| 3 | Minor side effects during the procedure were right upper quadrant discomfort ( 7% ) responding to a slight reduction of the intensity , vagal reaction ( 1% ) , and skin petechiae ( 5% ) . |
| 4 | They were rather submissive-looking hands , as if they might be waiting , quite patiently and happily , until someone might need to make use of them . |
| 5 | In this new climate , ‘ balance ’ , ‘ impartiality ’ , and ‘ objectivity ’ were rather inadequate practices . |
| 6 | that they were rather good ones . |
| 7 | I believe Francis and he were rather good friends . |
| 8 | One of the two ribbon cables was damaged , a wire had broken off at the joint between the cable and the plug , and both were rather short making installation harder than it should have been . |
| 9 | By later standards they were rather slow cars , but the trucks gave a smooth ride on straight track . |
| 10 | Albert looked as if he thought these were rather childish occupations . |
| 11 | There were rather diverse trends in the three blocs . |
| 12 | There were rather more Presbyterians , a few Roman Catholics and Jews , and an overwhelmingly Anglican majority , at least 90 per cent of the party . |
| 13 | There were dead wet leaves in the graveyard , and the wind blew rain into our faces . |
| 14 | There were eventually two plans . |
| 15 | If multinational companies were wholly sinister organisations , purely instruments of sophisticated exploitation , then one need not have any qualms about the project of ‘ nationalising ’ and therefore dismantling them . |
| 16 | These were wholly enjoyable experiences . |
| 17 | Although nothing became of this beyond an agreement that there were widely different views on the matter , that same year the Government of Australia proposed that the so called cull grenade should be banned . |
| 18 | They were bitterly cold winters , resulting in fuel restrictions and cuts in gas and electricity supplies . |
| 19 | They were predominantly small peasant economies , with scarcely any industry . |
| 20 | Because these were predominantly part-time units the parents ' close proximity was very useful in assisting the wives in their daily farm tasks . |
| 21 | Half of the farms visited were in the Peak District and were predominantly livestock-with-grass holdings . |
| 22 | When the inhabitants of a country were nomadic they had to be tied down in order to ensure that the land was properly exploited , but because in Russia they were predominantly sedentary state institutions could monitor their activity . |
| 23 | Investiture was the symbolic part of a struggle behind which there were fundamentally different views about the whole ordering of society and about who was the divinely appointed agent for that purpose . |
| 24 | For the tenants and farmworkers , it probably meant little change , since the religious were rarely benevolent landlords . |
| 25 | The House of Lords held that as the trustees were effectively one body and not all of them were resident in the United Kingdom there could be no income tax charge under Schedule D. |
| 26 | ‘ So there were effectively two Lee Jackson companies by this time . |
| 27 | The pace of change differed from country to country : Poland , Romania and Bulgaria were effectively Soviet puppets by 1946 , but Hungary was only brought under Moscow 's control in mid-1947 and a coalition government survived in Czechoslovakia until February 1948 . |
| 28 | Like Belgium , there were ornately carved stone town and guild halls as well as brick and half-timber versions . |
| 29 | It was comparatively easy for them to follow courses on particular aircraft types or their engines ( which were mostly civil versions of military aircraft engines anyway ) to ensure that the engineering side of AIB was also keeping up with the times . |
| 30 | Japanese in Formosa were mostly short-term residents who enjoyed the traditional privileges of a colonizing race and who , backed by Tokyo , implemented a colonial policy whose basic premise was that the colony existed for the benefit and betterment of mainland Japan , economically , politically and militarily . |