Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as religion was concerned both women discussed the way in which they considered being a non-Catholic in a Catholic school limited their job opportunities . |
| 2 | Planes were fuller so airline costs fell . |
| 3 | Mendelssohn was seasick both ways on the trip by boat from Glasgow to Staffa . |
| 4 | In 1982 , we were given another 5% rise although inflation was well over 50% . |
| 5 | An earlier view of second language knowledge was that only children could acquire while adults learned , but Krashen maintains that adults do not lose their language acquisition device and make considerable use of natural learning of the second language . |
| 6 | Work itself with its complicated fluctuation of task was seen as too complicated for a worker to understand and the belief was that only management could do so . |
| 7 | Credit Data told us that their policy was that only information about people under the same name should be passed where there was any possibility of multiple occupancy at a given address , but we felt that at least at the time of our visit this policy might not be clearly understood by the operators themselves , who might give information about people with other names at the given address , too . |
| 8 | SAM the dog was asleep yesterday afternoon , slumbering testimony to yet another unlikely triumph . |
| 9 | Mm was n't bad , what er flavour was that then strawberry ? |
| 10 | Then it was there , the blurry light of the candles and the singing Happy Birthday and the big whoosh … and the clapping , and when the curtains were open again Benny saw the thin young man that her father had been shaking hands with . |
| 11 | Barnet manager Barry Fry was convinced yesterday afternoon that the £500,000 deal for the forward had been struck between his chairman Stan Flashman and United chief executive Martin Edwards . |
| 12 | The government insisted that the northern guerrillas were Ethiopian Afar militias , created by the former regime of President Mengistu of Ethiopia , and seeking to " realize their dream of a greater Afaria " embracing the Afars of Ethiopia , Djibouti and Somalia . |