Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Payment was never made for a vessel taken from its owner for royal service ; nor was compensation for loss of a ship , or even damage to its equipment , normally given . |
| 2 | Dissent was not a fundamental right of Spaniards , nor was freedom of expression . |
| 3 | And always , always , however she killed , the moment of agonising red pleasure that was awareness of non-existence , the I stilled , the beautiful blissful moment when she did not exist and they did not exist and They did not exist and the whole dusty lightless World was not — only the certainty of not-existing never lasted and soon she would have to kill again . |
| 4 | Nevertheless Poland was still encumbered by a poorly developed industrial sector , a primitive , almost feudal , agricultural system , an under-funded banking sector and a poorly integrated railway system , and was hampered by the fact that it paid out 40 per cent of Gross National Income ( approximately 28 per cent of all government expenditure ) to maintain an army that was second in size only to that of Russia . |
| 5 | ‘ On the whole I should have thought that was cause for satisfaction . ’ |
| 6 | Every one of the dairy farmers expressed concern in particular those who had purchased a farm in the past two or three years and were dairying in order to repay the purchase loan . |
| 7 | She taught many microwave cookery schools and was consultant on food , appliance and product developments . |
| 8 | ’ And was Gharr at home ’ I snarled . |
| 9 | Born at Kingfisher , Oklahoma , on March 29 , 1918 , Samuel Walton grew up in Columbia , Missouri , where he played quarterback on his high school football team and was captain of basketball . |
| 10 | His daughter , Mary Moore , who enthusiastically supported the exhibition and was guest of honour at the opening , is well known for opposing the approach to her father 's work and , above all to his house and studios at Perry Green , taken by the Henry Moore Foundation , which she considers to be over-institutional , insufficiently concerned with the memory of her father and out of tune with his intentions . |
| 11 | From 1946 to 1952 he was first lecturer and then senior lecturer in the department of philosophy and psychology at the University of Canterbury , Christchurch , New Zealand , and was professor of philosophy there from 1952 to 1958 . |