Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 1,781 were permanently on view . |
| 2 | Some were still at school during the early 1980s when British manufacturing industry was being decimated and the service industries ' star began to rise . |
| 3 | Suicide attempts ( ‘ Not that it was serious , ’ she told him , ‘ just attention-seeking ’ ) , anorexia , the odd abortion ( only one in her case , but she gave the impression this was well below average ) and messy affairs with married men . |
| 4 | This was partly for ease of administration by the development officers who had to take into account the cost of all the services received by the elderly person when designing a package of care , but primarily because this was a new initiative : by enabling the development officers to take on difficult and complex cases without being unduly restricted by considerations of cost , it was hoped to test the limits to this form of community care . |
| 5 | This was partly in response to a recommendation from the EEC to cut sulphur emissions to one-third the present level , a step which it has been estimated , would cost £4 billion in flue gas desulphurization equipment adding £700 million a year to the CEGB 's operating costs . |
| 6 | The most controversial item in this low-key list was the establishment of a competitive VAN sector ; but even this was already under way in France and well advanced in Britain . |
| 7 | United stuck on three … but Bury went for more … and got them … numbers four and five could be classed as freaks or flukes Daws and Rigby were given the the goals … but forget football this was more like pinball … |
| 8 | This was no ordinary tiredness , this was more like paralysis . |
| 9 | It occurred to him with a sudden pang that this was now in jeopardy . |
| 10 | This was so in respect of rectories but not of vicarages . |
| 11 | How far this was so in fact and how it may have come about are important themes of this and the following chapters . |
| 12 | According to Sir Claus , who ran the services from 1967 to 1978 : ‘ Before the Rayner Review the purpose of the government statistical services was to serve several masters , first and foremost — and this was never in doubt - the Government ; but also industry , academics the public , indeed the whole nation … |
| 13 | This was much in vogue in the 1960s , due not only to the fashionable ideas of Marshall McLuhan , but the more serious earlier work by Wiener ( 1948 ) and Shannon and Weaver ( 1949 ) , but as time has passed doubts have grown not so much about its existence , but rather whether it does not constitute two distinct fields of machine and human communication , for which information theory can not provide a unifying paradigm . |
| 14 | This was totally in contradiction to Mr Venables ' claim that he was promised security of tenure . |
| 15 | This was apparently in response to the recent US Supreme Court ruling which legalized US government-authorized abductions abroad [ see p. 38954 ] . |
| 16 | This was mainly at Level II but with an increasing achievement at Level III and above . |
| 17 | The French bank used both search consultants and job agencies — depending on the level of the position — without in-house recruiting at all ; this was mainly for convenience , as they had no experience of recruiting or advertising for jobs in Britain . |
| 18 | And this was all before half-time . |
| 19 | This was all in addition to the usual lessons my father gave me on mathematics and history and so on . |
| 20 | In the second half of 1947 international attitudes towards Franco began to alter but this was less in response to the " changes " he had introduced than because Spain 's strategic value was enhanced by the deterioration of east–west relations . |
| 21 | This was substantially in line with British thinking . |
| 22 | This was entirely in accordance with the intentions of the Structure Plan which had imposed virtually no constraints on such development . |
| 23 | Soon after Naxos , Athens undertook a big aggressive campaign in the south-eastern Aegean , under Kimon 's leadership ; this was perhaps in response to allied discontent at the way the league was turning into a machine for policing its own members . |
| 24 | An important general rule was in an Act passed in 1967 , which allowed arrest without a warrant for murder or for any other crime for which the jail sentence could be five years or more , but this was merely in addition to the motley of other provisions . |
| 25 | But you see there was always this thought that it was always to better yourself that you were doing this that your Orcadian was just for home about and among yourselves and what it did n't really matter . |
| 26 | In June 1682 Louis XIV , now at the height of his power , explicitly asserted his right to correspond with all foreign sovereigns in French and not to use Latin ; and though the treaty of Ryswick between France and the Holy Roman Empire in 1697 was still in Latin most of the discussion which produced it was in French , as was the Franco-Dutch agreement of the same year . |
| 27 | So much was still on ration or impossible to obtain in Britain . |
| 28 | The second was more about pressure than pace , as the pack bulldozed through for Paul Ashmead to score . |
| 29 | It is interesting to note that electric vehicles built in 1920 were still in use in the 1950s . |
| 30 | And now these were well within range . |