Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No special equipment was used for this nor were new rails substituted . |
| 2 | The three sideholes were oriented radially at 120° to one another and were 5 cm apart . |
| 3 | Although more oil is ablaze than was first thought , there is less oil at sea . |
| 4 | A member of the sanitary committee of the Paddington Vestry , he was influential in forming a local section of the Charity Organization Society in 1869 and was medical representative on a number of philanthropic bodies . |
| 5 | The irony of The Smiths had become strange and was growing stranger . |
| 6 | He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 and was re-elected Chancellor in November 1972 . |
| 7 | He reportedly found it very hard and was left hanging from his axes as both crampon placements broke loose nearing the top . |
| 8 | But I was n't sure that was enough compensation for the pain . |
| 9 | Scientists excavating the fossilized remains of about twenty nests containing from 1 to 24 eggs each , in southern Alberta near the border between Canada and the United States in 1987 , suggest that dinosaurs were more socially complex than was first thought . |
| 10 | And the women went oh eh unlucky that was seven numbers , Shaney said to her it were n't that was six numbers , and they got and that and got the computer print out and all that , and then it was six numbers . |
| 11 | Sir William dealt with this in his own typical fashion , hanging three Douglas ringleaders there and then , but demanding a like example to be made of the Hamiltons , which was scarcely equitable , since the Douglases had started it all and were three times as numerous as their hereditary foes . |
| 12 | It would recognise , too , that industrial democracy can not be conjured into being overnight , no more than was political democracy , no more than was the joint stock company as the common expression of industrial capitalism . |
| 13 | He was confused ; arid that was another word , an unpleasant one in the ears of a man of seventy-five . |
| 14 | The Left of the Party held that the government was little better than fascist and was encouraging Germany and Italy . |
| 15 | The making of the assessment of damages in the light of all facts known at the date of the trial enables the court to take into account , if it be the case , the fact that the consequences of the plaintiff 's injuries were more serious than at first thought ; the fact that the expenses to which the plaintiff would be put in consequence of his injuries were higher than was first thought ; the fact that the plaintiff has died ; or the fact that the plaintiff has , since the accident , volunteered to be made redundant . |
| 16 | Erm can I just clarify that the thirty million of erm savings , was that actual redundancy costs which took place in ninety two or was that redundancy costs plus the sav commensurate savings which will then benefit ninety three er or was it just the savings ? |
| 17 | The Lemington cone was built in 1787 and was 130 feet high . |
| 18 | Mr Williams , originally from Bangor , was curate of Upton by Chester in the 1960s and was diocesan youth officer in the city for several years . |
| 19 | Rev Williams , originally from Bangor , was curate of Upton by Chester in the 1960s and was diocesan youth officer in the city . |
| 20 | Arias Navarro had been director-general of the state security service from 1957 to 1965 and was Interior Minister from June 1973 until the time of his appointment as head of government |
| 21 | He was president of the county in 1964 and 1965 and was honorary secretary for 26 years until his death . |
| 22 | Chuck had moved up close and was polishing glasses with enthusiasm . |
| 23 | It measured six inches by four and was three quarters of an inch thick , with thread-bound pages . |
| 24 | The breakdown of capitalism and the advent of a new form of society are conceived and explained as the outcome of the way a particular structure — the capitalist mode of production and capitalist society — works , not as the product of a historical process ; and the post-capitalist societies which can be foreseen , or which actually exist , may be as varied as were feudal societies or the absolutist states . |
| 25 | It is , however , undeniable that there is a great difference in the quality of experience during REM bursts and REM quiescence , with visual and auditory hallucinatory sensations characterizing the REM bursts , even if the difference is not quite as striking as was first thought . |
| 26 | Gamble was trained for the Presbyterian ministry at the University of Glasgow , where he graduated MA in 1797 and was ordained minister for Enniskillen in December 1799 . |
| 27 | Although the idea of regular bathing was a new one to the Britons , it soon became fashionable and was another sign of being properly civilised . |
| 28 | There was nothing wrong with it except that she doubted it was true and was certain Holly was showing it to Maureen for approval . |
| 29 | On day three all the butterflies were dead as was one angel , to be followed the next day by the other . |