Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The band themselves , whoever , were apparently none to impressed by Mellor , to the point that they did n't even bother showing up for their own party ! |
| 2 | ( This does not mean that there were not plenty of Irishmen who paid some ‘ friend ’ from the old country unnecessarily for the privilege of finding a job in the New World . ) |
| 3 | If only there were some way in which she could let him know that his feelings for her were not something for which he needed to apologise without landing them both in a situation from which they could not retreat . |
| 4 | For those with special needs it meant that drafts were not something to be ashamed of . |
| 5 | Italy 's involvement in the Spanish Civil War , in emulation of Germany , had cost much more than the government had intended , and by 1939 Mussolini must have known that the Army and Air Force were not anything like as strong as he had imagined they were , even if he did not know the extent of their weakness . |
| 6 | There were nevertheless plenty of suggestions for targets : St Nazaire was considered but dismissed because shoal waters were thought to make a sea approach impractical ; Dieppe appeared too heavily defended ; and many suggested moves to occupy distant islands were ruled out by the impossibility of maintaining garrisons . |
| 7 | There were admittedly plenty of countries even in Europe — and practically all outside that continent — where the left , revolutionary or otherwise , as yet failed to make any impact on the peasantry ; as the Russian populists ( see chapter 9 above ) discovered when they decided to ‘ go to the people ’ in the 1870s . |
| 8 | There were just lots of things wrong . |
| 9 | There was always unrest along the Border line ; during the Scottish Wars of Independence , the English Civil War , religious wars , in fact most of the time ; and of course , if Border lairds were not involved in a national dispute , then there were always plenty of old scores to be settled to keep them gainfully employed . |
| 10 | There were always plenty of boys ; they might arrive on a Friday and be gone by Monday , but he wanted an enduring relationship too . |
| 11 | ‘ There were always plenty of boyfriends — Lord this , someone that . |
| 12 | She would go that afternoon to fetch water from the fountain , she liked doing that anyway , and nothing could come of it to hurt her , there were always plenty of others there , and she 'd give Tommaso a sign , so that he 'd come , come at night to find her , that was the way it was done , she 'd seen it , becks and smiles under half-dosed eyes as the water brimmed in the young women 's jars . |
| 13 | In times gone by , there were always lots of hedge trimmings available at the beginning of November , and it was easy to make a bonfire — with a big family you want a big bonfire . |
| 14 | There were still plenty to be found , and she had almost finished arranging them when the second minibus arrived . |
| 15 | But there were still plenty of forces in the Party that remained ambiguous or hostile . |
| 16 | Though the moguls had gone , there were still plenty of people left from the old school to lay down some pretty awful accusations . |
| 17 | There were still plenty of ugly and unpleasant prisons attached to Courts of Requests outside London , like that at Kidderminster , a dungeon with an exercise yard of only twelve square feet . |
| 18 | True , there were still plenty of pockets of sadism where the whip and the birch were freely used . |
| 19 | Surprisingly there was still no organised training for new entries to the cutters but at that time of course there were still plenty of ex-service personnel available . |
| 20 | The party was slightly quieter , but there were still plenty of people about . |
| 21 | There were still plenty of them , too . |
| 22 | The commemorative battle was sufficiently well choreographed to avoid serious damage … although there were still plenty of cuts and bruises . |
| 23 | The need for maritime work remained , although it was clear that the anti-submarine role was no longer a possibility ( although in those days , Soviet submarines and surface shipping were still something to be feared as they passed the Cape in both directions ) . |
| 24 | Reading the Bible was a fascinating experience but prayer was hard , and churchgoing and worship were also something to be lived through until the time came for the sermon , which I relished . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , well , there were probably lots of things we do n't know about . |
| 26 | Amongst the major shares today Abbey National were up four at two O nine , British Aerospace up eight at five four two , British Airways down four at one four six , British Gas were down five at two one one , British Steel up one at one one seven , B T went down one to two two eight , Rolls Royce were up one at one seven one and T S B were up five at one two three . |
| 27 | were n't one in car . |
| 28 | And I 'll remember , as well , those strange fragments of memory I had when we arrived , because they certainly were n't anything from my memory . |
| 29 | They were n't anything like Seth 's . |
| 30 | They were n't anything like that were they ? |