Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no suggestion that passengers are or were more at risk on buses in Lothian than elsewhere : the level of casualties was simply the result of more bus trips being made . |
| 2 | Instead , the police relied upon the wide range of old laws that were already in place . |
| 3 | At the age of 18 her pupil was enthusiastically tracing the origins of Christian doctrine , reading works that were normally of interest only to scholarly clerics and ecclesiastical historians . |
| 4 | The same manifesto committed a Labour Government to preventing the siting of cruise missiles in Britain and to the removal of any that were then in place . |
| 5 | Conditions for a Sussex ‘ miner , , or factor carbonis , can have been little different from that of later centuries , a nomadic life lived in the woods , shelter in bad weather being provided by the simple turf-covered pole shelters that were still in use forty years ago . |
| 6 | On the extreme eastern boundary of the parish , however , where the church and vicarage were rather oddly placed , a number of small terrace houses had been bought up by speculative builders , gutted , modernised , and sold at high prices to people who wanted small houses that were almost in town but could not afford the more fashionable districts of Islington , St John 's Wood or Hampstead . |
| 7 | London 's Evening Standard was moved to add fuel to the fire and proclaim ‘ this year , the long knives were out ’ , but it was only the tall tales that were really in evidence . |
| 8 | She looked at Mrs Gotobed 's claw-like , ringed fingers holding her delicate cup , and thought of Auntie Lou 's little red hands that were always in water , washing dishes or scrubbing floors or peeling potatoes . |
| 9 | If we focus on all those clients who were still at home one year after referral , we can ask again whether the Home Support Project was sustaining more disadvantaged people than were still at home in the control sub-sample , and we can examine the interplay of a greater number of factors than those presented in Table 4.4 . |
| 10 | ‘ You imagined wrongly , ’ Marguerite interrupted with a cold look that was completely at variance with her normally soft ways . |
| 11 | ‘ What 's the rush ? ’ a harried clerk had asked when Caroline had tried to talk her way into being permitted to enter a summer class that was already under way . |
| 12 | As he rushed towards the wheat-rick that was most in danger , he saw he was not alone . |
| 13 | Is that the one that was poorly over Christmas ? |
| 14 | But they had to be humoured before they could be diverted from the unobtainable to the treasure that was actually for sale . |
| 15 | Last week a team from Boston 's children 's hospital announced that they had , for the first time , used the treatment to halt a ‘ graft-versus-host ’ attack that was actually in progress . |
| 16 | A short time later the minibus was making its way along a metal road that was sorely in need of attention from a grader . |
| 17 | They filled her with a deep , purple-rich sadness that was almost like happiness . |
| 18 | Her tightly tailored strapless dress matched her lips exactly , as did the shoes that even Belinda recognised as highest quality Italian leather , the kind of leather with a fine grain that was almost like satin to the touch . |
| 19 | Mysticism is a particularly interesting example of the attempt to interpret the faith in a new way and which discovers a new richness that was there in embryo waiting to be developed . |
| 20 | Not this time : these were a very ‘ trolleyish ’ lot , mostly cut and dried in advance , including a summer pudding that was more like bread and jam in syrup than anything genuinely fruity . |
| 21 | She was generous , though , and helped anyone that was really in need — if she liked them , that is . |
| 22 | In his despair , Maisie came to him now , that familiar loving face with its bright violet eyes and a profusion of greying hair that was never in place . |
| 23 | This sort of action is still infrequent and perhaps not very significant , but it gives hope that the enthusiasm that was much in evidence at the conference can help to revitalise the labour movement — this time globally organised , just like capital . |
| 24 | Crowds of people and mountains of goods , departing and arriving scores upon scores of times in every four-and-twenty hours , produced a fermentation in the place that was always in action . |
| 25 | But you muste prove yourself to do som thynges that you were never taught , or else you shall not be able to doo any more than you were taught , and were rather to learne by rote than by reason . |
| 26 | What is not in doubt is that many members failed to follow the professional path of Section 2f in the dispute , and were thus in breach of the Code of Professional Conduct . |
| 27 | About six months ago , our deputy general secretary wrote to Monseigneur , the general secretary of the bishops conference , and er told him that we hoped progress was being made , referred in particular to the degree of consensus that had been a arrived at in the baptism eucharist and ministry document and er also to the difference that had been made by the coming into being of ACTS and its commission on unity faith and order and we had a reply to that er a letter from Monseigneur assuring as that the hierarchy were taking this seriously , that they were discussing it er amongst themselves in Scotland and were also in discussion with Rome on the subject as well . |
| 28 | In summary , we can say that rugs were used by a number of civilizations , ranging from Greece through to Central Asia , during the first millennium BC , and were probably in existence for some considerable time before . |
| 29 | Medical appointments in military units were believed to provide useful experience to recent graduates or students , and were much in demand . |
| 30 | Morality was for the laity , whose life was dominated by the battle against mortal sin , and who therefore lived under the threat of hell and were always at risk . |