Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 560 differs also from the later machines , in that when the machine is turned on , the same configuration of lights will come on as were on BEFORE the machine was turned off , including any of the pattern variation switches numbers 3 to 6 that were on . |
| 2 | He found that 51.96 per cent of those in ‘ primary poverty ’ were so because the chief breadwinner was ‘ in regular work but at low wages ’ ; 22.16 per cent of primary poverty was due , in modern terminology , to ‘ child poverty ’ , i.e. the family had more than four children and insufficient income to support so large a family ; 15.63 per cent to ‘ death of chief wage-earner ’ ; 5.11 per cent to the illness and old age of chief wage-earner ; 2.83 per cent to ‘ irregularity of work ’ ; 2.31 per cent to unemployment . |
| 3 | We were less than a hundred miles away from Adrar , and it was New Year 's Eve . |
| 4 | Dovercourt ended its days as a refugee centre in March 1939 when there were less than a hundred , mostly older boys , still in occupation . |
| 5 | There were less than a dozen of them , as they went under the collegiate arch of the street entrance and down the glass-roofed passageway leading to the church itself . |
| 6 | When I was a child I could remember gatherings of two or three hundred people , but there were less than a hundred out on the dry grass . |
| 7 | For though I doubt if he 's ready to own to it yet , I know of another who can and will testify that the two of them were together until the bell sounded for Compline , which would be the better part of an hour later than you have in mind , and a quarter of an hour 's walk from the place , into the bargain . |
| 8 | From my position at the entrance to the dug-out I could see the wounded in the sunken road in the same positions they were in before the shelling started . |
| 9 | It will only be ordered if the purchaser and vendor are capable of being returned to the position they were in before the sale agreement was executed . |
| 10 | ‘ They were down after the Rangers result , it left an indelible mark . |
| 11 | ‘ Rode through forty nights of the gospels ' rain Black sky pourin' snakes frogs And love in vain You were down where the river grows wider Baby let me be your soul rider . ’ |
| 12 | Next day , John Childs , nearly 37 and England 's oldest Test debutante for over forty years , took a wicket in his third over , but only three were down when the England total was passed . |
| 13 | Half the Scots were over before the English decided to come on , but by then it was too late to effect a halt to the crossing . |
| 14 | During the winter of 1940–41 , the days of what had become Keyes 's private army were over when the War Office reasserted their authority and the command of the Special Service Brigade passed to Brigadier ( later Major-General ) J.C . |
| 15 | Because of the complexity of the polymer there were more than a thousand peaks or data points per sample but Burmester reduced this vast amount of information by computer clustering . |
| 16 | There were more than a thousand roses arranged in his suite . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 18 | I knew for a start that there were more than a million Japanese there . |
| 19 | In 1988/89 , a milestone was passed when , for the first time , there were more than a million module enrolments in a single year . |
| 20 | Unfortunately despite the wide range , the stock did not include paste so they were up until the early hours , matching and fastening the wallpaper on with drawing pins . |
| 21 | Pakistan 's start was not quite as grim as India 's at Headingley in 1952 , when the first four batsmen were out before a run had been registered , nor did it quite compare with Australia 's second innings at Brisbane in 1950 , when Bedser and Bailey send back the first three without a run on the board . |
| 22 | This case also often occurs in practice due to the results of cases such as grouped meter readings from customers who were at home when the meter reader called , combined with customers ' own readings carried out because they were out when the meter reader called , and a number of special checks that are carried out at a different time . |
| 23 | Yes , and er there is a when we were there cos a good town , and I |
| 24 | This was mostly because the $40.3 billion charged to its cards was far ahead of Discover 's $19.4 billion , and because Citibank had built up three times as much outstanding debt as Discover . |
| 25 | It seemed that she was right as the Allies crossed the Rhine and swept through Germany . |
| 26 | This was so whether the reformative sentence would be disproportionately long or disproportionately short , although most adherents of the Justice Model in the 1970s ( who tended to be liberal or moderately radical in political persua-sion ) wanted a just deserts system which would punish less harshly overall — again like Beccaria two centuries previously . |
| 27 | That term was automatically held to be satisfied when the effects on the interests of the individual were felt to be serious enough to warrant procedural protection , and this was so whether the context was deprivation of an office , expulsion from a trade association , the destruction of one 's property , or the loss of something which would juridically be called a privilege . |
| 28 | In Rice v. Connolly , the landmark decision establishing that this is the law , it was said that this was so because a refusal to answer questions was not ‘ wilful , ’ an expression that their Lordships interpreted to mean ‘ without lawful excuse . ’ |
| 29 | It could be argued that this was so because the individualist Hobbesian anarchism which formed the theoretical model of the bourgeois economy provided no basis for any form of social organisation , including that of the family . |
| 30 | Poole remarked that the choice of Stravinsky music horrified many people ( this was long before the composer had been understood or accepted by general audiences ) and the score ‘ made great difficulty for the cast but none at all for John ’ . |