Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village youths had taken to roaring round and round of an evening on highly powered Japanese motorcycles from which the silencers had been removed ; those distressed by this were invoking the law , the youths laughed , their friends and relations pointed out that they 'd paid their road-tax , had n't they , like anyone else ? |
| 2 | To this were added the effects of the transformation of the social structure by industrialization and urbanization in the more advanced areas ( Austria , the Czech lands , etc . ) . |
| 3 | If to this were added the effects of a special pension at 60 for those who were unemployed , a new invalidity pension , the raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen and a uniform forty-hour week , a total of 2,000,000 jobs would be redistributed to the unemployed . |
| 4 | If this were to occur the pricing efficiency of the market would worsen . |
| 5 | Perhaps she had been closer to the truth than she had at first suspected with her taunts about Theo Quinn ; and , although she no longer wanted Ben , she felt that , if this were to prove the case , it would be a great waste of promising material . |
| 6 | And it was of no help to the Scottish Protestants that on 8 August , in the instructions given to that experienced diplomat of the 1540s , Sir Ralph Sadler , now sent north to make a comeback in the Scottish political scene , the English were encouraging the idea of being anti-French and anticipating their outspoken memorandum of the 31st by warbling about the need for government by someone of the blood of Scotland . |
| 7 | This was a game which two could play , and the English were to raid the coast of Normandy several times between 1400 and 1410 . |
| 8 | Altern-8 were sharing the bill with the Prodigy . |
| 9 | ‘ We can never re-create Australia but if the French were calling the side the Lions it would have been an appropriate thank-you to the players . ’ |
| 10 | Already , then , it might be seen that the French were digging the pit into which the US would eventually fall . |
| 11 | By this time it was becoming obvious that in spite of the fact that the French were conveying the impression of a limited operation ‘ to restore order ’ ( which might be at least six months to a year ) they were hoping for more moderate Vietnamese leaders to emerge and , in the meantime , they would not after all negotiate with Ho Chi Minh . |
| 12 | In the meantime , the US Joint Chiefs of Staff were giving their professional opinion how the French were to win the war and what the US would and would not do . |
| 13 | Some were repairing the fence . |
| 14 | Thus the British were denied the chance of a monarch who would have been more cultivated than any of the other Hanoverians , while Sophia , born in exile , died without ever visiting the country to whose throne she was heir . |
| 15 | The effect of this was to relieve the debtor of all liability for their debts . |
| 16 | This was to tip the balance of power decisively against Northumberland . |
| 17 | This was to tip the balance of power decisively against Northumberland . |
| 18 | When this was discovered the respondent was arrested on 19 October 1990 . |
| 19 | This was made the payoff in the Sunday Correspondent 's interview with the PM , though it has since emerged that the sequence of the conversation was altered . |
| 20 | The chip Shop is going to extend into the vacant shop next door and this was given the go ahead for a trial period of one year . |
| 21 | The Chip Shop is going to extend into the vacant shop next door and this was given the go ahead for a trial period of one year . |
| 22 | The purpose of this was to compare the experience of and attitude to the police of Blacks , Asians and Whites living in roughly the same conditions . |
| 23 | To appreciate this was to see the problem as ultimately a problem of living , and as uniquely relevant to a recently unified and politically ascendant Germany . |
| 24 | This was to see the Sadler 's Wells Royal Ballet dance Les Sylphides , and The Two Pigeons , at a performance commemorating the life and work of the late Sir Frederick Ashton , who gave us so many wonderful productions . |
| 25 | On the other was the abbey of St Martial and the castle of the Viscount ; this was called the citadel , the castrum . |
| 26 | The second session began in March and finished at the end of July , and this was called the Summer Term , though in fact it was still extremely cold and wintry when term began . |
| 27 | On the Von Neumann computer this was called the arithmetic register ( AR ) ; but it is more commonly referred to as the multiplier-quotient ( MQ ) or quotient ( Q ) register . |
| 28 | The result of this was to plant the seed of Mosley 's destruction . |
| 29 | This was to open the Jackie Stewart Shooting School at Gleneagles , which is most efficiently run by Mr Justin Jones son of Mr Alan Jones , who with his brother Noel Jones , run the North Wales Shooting School at Sealand , that was started by their father . |
| 30 | The Stop Hinkley Expansion group complained to the Inspector , arguing that this was jumping the gun and a waste of public money , despite the CEGB claim that if it did n't order these parts in advance , at its own risk , it would never keep to its construction timetable . |