Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [was/were] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the kindred of Osbern of Eu and the kindred of William fitzOsbern with their friends had succeeded in carrying Duke William to a resounding victory against the invasion of his combined enemies was therefore news of more than ordinary importance . |
| 2 | Fred Pearce says that DoE scientists returned from Stockholm in 1982 ‘ convinced that Norwegian claims about acid rain were largely right and the righteous warnings from the generating board about scientific uncertainties were largely prevarication . ’ |
| 3 | Sexual intrigues were almost part of the culture of high politics , and were commonplace in big Whig and Tory families in the early nineteenth century . |
| 4 | For those citing domestic responsibilities as the most important reason , specific responses were usually childcare demands and being the only wage earner in the family ( which also overlaps with financial difficulties ) . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the dynamic of four sessions did have a remarkable effect not unassisted by the fact that when Cardinal Montini became Paul VI , this meant that one of the most thoughtful and determined of the moderately progressive conservatives was now pope . |
| 6 | One source of authority on such matters was also royalty . |
| 7 | Palaeontologists realised about 50 years ago that the separate elements were really part of a skeletal apparatus of some sort — perhaps the jaw apparatus or gill support structure of primitive vertebrates or invertebrates . |
| 8 | These can be said to represent only a development from earlier kinds of craft support , but the general situation was qualitatively new , in that work in this area became indispensable , in the advanced technologies , even though there could still be doubt whether such workers were truly part of the cultural production . |
| 9 | The Black Country in its early days was still country , ‘ a countryside in course of becoming industrialised ; more and more a strung-out web of iron-working villages , market towns next door to collieries , heaths and wastes gradually and very slowly being covered by the cottages of nailers and other persons carrying on industrial occupations in rural surroundings ’ . |
| 10 | It was becoming easy enough to find biochemical changes that occurred when an animal learned ; the problem was to show that such changes were really part of the memory-making process . |
| 11 | The primitive valuables involved in such exchanges were neither money nor cash , but items that were often spent in political and social spheres of activity to form alliances in peacetime and during war , as well as compensation for death and bridewealth . |
| 12 | The best known is Immediate , Not Gradual Abolition of Slavery ( 1824 ) , a pamphlet which broached the idea of speedy abolition while William Wilberforce [ q.v. ] and other male leaders were still gradualist . |
| 13 | Half a minute later another Frenchman sent his pousse-pousse puller staggering in the gutter with a blow to the head after an apparent argument about the fare , and Joseph realized with a shock that such beatings were merely routine . |
| 14 | Many of the early mammals were probably insect eaters , as are many of the primitive representatives of the group today . |
| 15 | At one time or another these projects were respectively code named : Alaska , California , Montana and Nevada . |
| 16 | These reactions were neither jealousy nor possessiveness , she was absolutely certain of that . |
| 17 | When she had subsided , and we had recovered from our surprise at this outburst , we asked her whether the small and large hominids were strictly savannah species or whether they spent much of their time in forests . |
| 18 | The responses to these statements were subsequently factor analyzed to reveal teachers ’ latent attitudes towards the Solihull booklet and towards SSE . |
| 19 | The nature of the difficulty carers experienced with these problems was either tiredness , anxiety or worry , embarrassment , sadness , fear or irritation . |
| 20 | Whilst national debate has shifted the focus of urban regeneration policy away from the narrowly defined goals of physical development , the extension of its boundaries has forced MDC to confront the issues of jobs , training and social housing provision , although MDC would argue that these objectives were always part of its long-term agenda . |
| 21 | In the pursuit of generality these items were often nonsense syllables . |
| 22 | The landlord will usually prefer such a reservation in order to utilise the remedy of distress for arrears , and to forfeit the lease without the necessity to serve a notice under s 146 of the Law of Property Act 1925 , which would otherwise apply if these payments were merely tenant 's covenants . |
| 23 | Sale stalls with railwayana , a booking office and a mock-up of a steam locomotive cab with basic controls were also part of the attractions . |
| 24 | In the 1840s , 1850s and 1860s these colleges were invariably church foundations in which would-be teachers were trained for work in church schools . |
| 25 | Golf employed a far larger number of professionals but these men were rarely tournament competitors . |
| 26 | Both of these boys were also Patois speakers , and had used Patois within the conversation from which the extracts were taken : but the extracts were chosen carefully to exclude any obvious " Creolisms " . |
| 27 | Although the main basis of action was immediate issues the leading militants were frequently part of the wider socialist movement in the area and many were associated , however loosely , with the ideas of the Institute for Workers Control . |
| 28 | A few people were real risk-takers ; these types were often company directors , and inveterate investors . |
| 29 | All deputies were either party members or carefully vetted non-party people . |
| 30 | Many flocks were now lambing twice per year . |