Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In this new climate , ‘ balance ’ , ‘ impartiality ’ , and ‘ objectivity ’ were rather inadequate practices . |
| 4 | that they were rather good ones . |
| 5 | I believe Francis and he were rather good friends . |
| 6 | By later standards they were rather slow cars , but the trucks gave a smooth ride on straight track . |
| 7 | Albert looked as if he thought these were rather childish occupations . |
| 8 | There were rather diverse trends in the three blocs . |
| 9 | There were rather more Presbyterians , a few Roman Catholics and Jews , and an overwhelmingly Anglican majority , at least 90 per cent of the party . |
| 10 | There were dead wet leaves in the graveyard , and the wind blew rain into our faces . |
| 11 | There were eventually two plans . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | These were wholly enjoyable experiences . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They were bitterly cold winters , resulting in fuel restrictions and cuts in gas and electricity supplies . |
| 16 | Because these were predominantly part-time units the parents ' close proximity was very useful in assisting the wives in their daily farm tasks . |
| 17 | Half of the farms visited were in the Peak District and were predominantly livestock-with-grass holdings . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | For the tenants and farmworkers , it probably meant little change , since the religious were rarely benevolent landlords . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | These were mostly working wives : mill or munition factory workers , cleaners or outworkers . |
| 24 | His architectural works date from the late 1930s and were mostly industrial buildings , notably the Supermarine aviation works , Southampton , 1937 . |
| 25 | These were mostly internal consultations of the original documents within the faculty . |
| 26 | His congregations were mostly small shopkeepers and artisans who respected him not only as a preacher and writer but as a man who had himself worked with his hands . |
| 27 | There were quite a lot of enthusiastic er audience but er they were mostly grey beards like me . |
| 28 | They were mostly younger women . |
| 29 | The survivors were mostly younger sisters , but the striking thing about the teenage girl compositors traced through the CECOS Report , was that they tended to be the eldest children of large families . |
| 30 | Men of this standing were mostly considerable landowners in the first place . |