Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alarm bells that were ringing around popular amusements and freedoms as the new century arrived moved in concert with a much darker current of anxiety about national decline and incohesion , involving some quite spectacular fantasies of racial degeneration . |
| 2 | Moreover , Robson Rhodes the Accountants found that many firms that were proceeding along conventional lines in terms of raising finance , often suddenly moved to being financed totally under the LGS . |
| 3 | States of ‘ socialist orientation ’ , in the Soviet view , were those that were carrying out major social transformations such as the nationalisation of foreign monopolies , redistribution of land and industrialisation , and which were taking steps to further public education and to reduce poverty and unemployment . |
| 4 | Kate said they 'd gone to the army display and mentioned the rations that were taken on Antarctic expeditions . |
| 5 | The other thing is , you 're probably getting L A P R , that 's life assurance premium relief , on any contracts that were taken out prior to nineteen eighty four . |
| 6 | This analysis , which acquired a great vogue in the Civil War of 1936 , hid the presence of a middle sector of society that was to divide along classic lines into a grand and petty bourgeoisie , the Moderates and Progressives of the mid-century . |
| 7 | Certain work that was carried out involved noisy operations and the programme was carefully coordinated with the hotel administration to minimise disruption and inconvenience . |
| 8 | It was as if they had read F. Scott Fitzgerald and were acting out Crazy Sunday . |
| 9 | Soviet and foreign relief organizations had installed themselves with efficiency and were giving out free food . |
| 10 | Finally , he rang his bell and was pulled up unharmed to the surface , where he delivered the emperor 's words to his master . |
| 11 | Crawford returned to repertory work to be there for the first three months , appearing alongside stars such as Leo McKern , who had turned down two films and offers from the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company to go to Nottingham , and classical actor John Neville , who had just starred in Alfie on the London stage and was giving up 200-a-week West End rates for the 20 to 50 Playhouse level . |
| 12 | In addition to the Revolutionary Armed Forces , Castro was sufficiently confident of support by late 1959 to organise the formation of popular militias , and was stirring up patriotic fervour by repeated assertions of the imminence of US military action against Cuba . |
| 13 | It jerked his foot banged his knee and was yanked back open . |