Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dagger-shaped trefoils in the parabolic arches above were uniformly of blood hue . |
| 2 | In its evidence to an official inquiry five years ago , the Council said that the odds were overwhelmingly in favour of the banks rather than the customer . |
| 3 | The farmers , including the president of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland , John Ross , and the union 's milk convener , Alex Brown , called on the Scottish Secretary to back Scotland 's milk producers , who were overwhelmingly in favour of the SMMB 's proposals , and help overturn the Office of Fair Trading 's findings that the plan would distort trade for milk . |
| 4 | Those attending the seminar were overwhelmingly from accountancy firms — excluding myself , 23 of the 26 participants . |
| 5 | And yet they were right of course , they were right enough it , it never came again completely as it , noth nothing stay the same . |
| 6 | But you muste prove yourself to do som thynges that you were never taught , or else you shall not be able to doo any more than you were taught , and were rather to learne by rote than by reason . |
| 7 | on that point er would the er minister indicate whether or not the British government supports the attitude of the French government because of course the British government at the time of the Edinburgh summit were wholly in favour of the agreement to require the European parliament to meet both in Brussels and in Strasbourg and therefore I assume that there 's an identity of interest between the British government and the French government on this question since the French government are maintaining their er opposition to the er six extra seats simply because they want to see a new parliament building constructed in Strasbourg , is that a position that the British government supports ? |
| 8 | ‘ Last year the Yorkshire committee paid for an extensive coaching programme for six weeks to help youngsters in the area who were predominantly of Pakistani and Indian background . |
| 9 | A UN Security Council resolution adopted unanimously on Nov. 25 noted that the meetings had not achieved their goal " in particular because certain positions adopted by the Turkish Cypriot side were fundamentally at variance with the Set of Ideas " , and urged the parties to adopt a series of confidence-building measures recommended by the Secretary-General . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , unless his senses were awry from fear and pain , a newcomer had arrived on the scene . |
| 11 | Until very recently , observers were rarely on board to verify officially reported figures , and even if they were , attempts were often made to stop them witnessing the dolphin catch . |
| 12 | Those who adopted the third and final position — although the arguments were rarely in practice as clear as this — went further still to argue that pupils should be brought together not only under one roof , not only studying one curriculum , but also within mixed-ability groups . |
| 13 | Inevitably , I noted these criticisms were rarely in relation to what he had said ( few had actually read the book ) , but rather were expressions of shocked outrage that he had failed to keep silent and say nothing at all . |
| 14 | The Junkers , as usual , were badly in debt . |
| 15 | Public attention had become difficult to avoid but both he and Mrs Wilson were badly in need of rest . |
| 16 | In spite of these initial advantages , furnishing fabrics , as clothes , were badly in need of overall direction and it was also in Paris that a young woman who had no formal design training but had worked for the exclusive Colefax and Fowler , was hired . |
| 17 | Er when the election , local elections were on of course , er er er i we were n not quite so friendly to each other , because er each had got candidates er contesting for the er for the same er for the one er particular seat . |
| 18 | He says well I , we were on about sort of and he says bring it up at the next meeting , I says |
| 19 | Last year branch income was on target at seven point eight million pounds , a massive increase on the plateau of five to five and half million pounds we were on before Skip Lunch . |
| 20 | Will and I were mostly at home in Stratford in the summers . |
| 21 | These changes were mostly in size , gait , metabolism , chewing and digestive mechanisms . |
| 22 | Dr Nigel Paul , a Lancaster biologist now in the third year of a research programme funded by the Department of the Environment , said yesterday that preliminary research suggested crops such as barley , peas , cauliflower , sprouts and broccoli were most at risk . |
| 23 | This information could be used to help practitioners — such as doctors and social workers — predict which children were most at risk from abuse , or further abuse , and target their intervention in the appropriate places . |
| 24 | Paradoxically , it was the grain-surplus areas which were most at risk of severe deprivation and periodic famine . |
| 25 | Now they accepted Tina as a daughter , and were constantly on hand with advice and assistance . |
| 26 | Has the Secretary of State made any advance in redressing the ridiculous situation of the Scottish soldiers in the territorial units who served in the Gulf for 51 days and who were constantly under attack by Scud missiles ? |
| 27 | Nevertheless the ILP representatives on the Unity Campaign Committee were constantly in friction with the Communist Party over the tendency to encourage non-Socialists to join the Campaign . |
| 28 | Using the terminology reminiscent of contemporary descriptions of madness ( cf. those by the thirteenth-century encyclopaedist Bartholomaeus Anglicus ) Hoccleve relates what others said of him : that he was incapable of sober reasoning , that his brain was buckish , that his gait was like a roe 's , darting hither and thither , and that his eyes were constantly in motion . |
| 29 | Theologians were constantly in demand to speak and write for a wide public which was eager to understand the Council 's message and importance . |
| 30 | Dunkin thought that two groups of headlines ‘ each consisting of two sets would be required only if four formes were constantly in use ’ ( p.301 ) , i.e. if The Fairy Queen had been printed on two presses ( two formes per press , working simultaneously : one forme in use ; the other standing by ) or , conceivably , printed on four presses ( the presses doing only one side of a sheet each ) . |