Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the words were almost a line long and all looked the same . |
| 2 | The words were less a request than an order . |
| 3 | Lin McLean , a Strathclyde University student counsellor and AUT activist , said she had not had anyone come to her with problems over a tutor-student relationships in eight years , and that the guidelines were only a guide to help union members in a delicate area of their work . |
| 4 | Indeed , one wonders sometimes whether the apparent simplicity of such political remedies has , in some peculiar way , affected the diagnosis of the supposed ‘ sickness ’ in the first place ( undesirable qualities , low levels of skill , weak subject expertise ) to which those remedies were presumably a response ; whether the remedies have produced the sickness , rather than vice versa . |
| 5 | European traders were really no problem ; they usually negotiated with his direct vassals or with princes lower in the scale . |
| 6 | Our battlefields were once a cathedral , silent until the congregation of mankind entered . |
| 7 | The shortages were primarily a consequence of a blockade by Azerbaijan — itself a result of the dispute over Nagorny-Karabakh — which had forced the closure of pipelines bringing Turkmen gas to Armenia via Azerbaijan . |
| 8 | The shortages were primarily a consequence of an Azerbaijani blockade — itself a result of the territorial dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 9 | The shortages were partly the result of reduced capacity at two main refineries which helped process the 1,700,000 barrels of crude oil produced per day . |
| 10 | While Japanese computers were hardly a factor in the boom years , they were to become a major force in the 1980s . |
| 11 | Sir James and the prison cell were simply a warning not to go too far , not to presume too much on our present weakness . ’ |
| 12 | Jews were supposedly a nation within a nation who owed allegiance to an international community rather than to the British State . |
| 13 | ‘ The shops were rather a home from home , not the most efficient of places , ’ says Major Bourne-Arton . |
| 14 | Among the authors were also the Deputy Interior and Defence Ministers , Gen. Gromov and Varennikov , leading some commentators to see in it the veiled threat of a military coup . |
| 15 | And which is natural because you know , the very early motor cars were only a sort of toy for the rich as it were and er when it came to you see er grocer 's vans or , or er laundry vans made out of old pr private cars . |
| 16 | If coaching were simply a matter of putting down on a piece of paper 10 points to improve , we 'd all be world beaters . |
| 17 | Its working methods were almost a caricature of those prevailing in high political bodies in Moscow . |
| 18 | The trouble was , all these methods were now the staple diet of Radio 4 plays . |
| 19 | But the lifts of the pen came regularly at every fourth letter — Middlemass had never found a forger who remembered to vary the interval at which he lifted pen from paper — and the dot above the i , high and slightly to the left , and the over-emphatic apostrophe were almost a trade-mark . |
| 20 | Animals were only a story in the Book of Remembering . |
| 21 | An eighteenth century travelling commode from the Duke and Duchess of Wellington , a pair of Georgian chairs from the people of Bermuda and wrought-iron gates from the neighbouring village of Tetbury were just a sample of the cornucopia of presents which had descended on the royal couple . |
| 22 | They loved the way acts like Hüsker Dü and The Minutemen ( so named because , in the beginning , all their songs were under a minute long ) made sharp , concise statements about love and life , without introducing dubious concepts ( that came much later ) . |
| 23 | The books were exactly the mixture as before , but the quantity of ingredients seemed to have doubled ( ‘ Dickens and Scott seem to breed year by year Kingsley and Thackeray always appear ’ to quote from ‘ Irrelevant Thoughts Which Intrude in the Night , soliloquy written by Nan Munn , one of the 15 ‘ sorters ’ ) . |
| 24 | Moreover , given the disparity in actual salaries , it is unlikely that the more general " managerial labour market " constraint on operation is fully effective since , as we said in chapter 3 , it is likely that the public sector trawls for talent in a different pool , at least in the UK.6 On the assumption that the people actually being appointed were ( unlike their private sector counterparts ) altruistic , this would be no bad thing , but it would be foolish to believe altruism were always the case . |
| 25 | It would not matter so much if a Turkish president were just a figurehead . |
| 26 | Full-time football and a career at a more glamorous club were both a matter of time . |
| 27 | The teaching of religion was always a feature of the curriculum , and until 1988 was the one subject legally required . |
| 28 | Religion was more a background , a context . |
| 29 | It would be easy to do so on the basis that his fusion of science and religion was really a confusion . |
| 30 | Religion was sometimes a mixture of Celtic , Roman and Christian beliefs and this affected the rites at death ceremonies . |