Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eighteenth-century observers often argued that naval battles between opponents of more or less equal strength were almost certain to be indecisive , that naval warfare was by its nature unlikely to produce victories of the kind which might be expected on land . |
| 2 | In many States , moreover , efforts at more or less enlightened reform were inspired by history and tradition rather than by abstract ideas . |
| 3 | At entry , quiescent or mildly active colitis was seen at endoscopy in 15 of 16 patients in the cyclosporin group and nine of 10 in the placebo group . |
| 4 | From 1200–75 the Lancet or Early English style was fully developed . |
| 5 | However , the protection of hay , straw or even unthreshed corn was more simply achieved by the erection of a more modest and inexpensive building than the traditional flail-threshing barn . |
| 6 | However , pulmonary arterial pressure increased to the pre-NO inhalation value with an increase in cardiac output when almitrine was given , suggesting that right ventricular function was not affected . |
| 7 | Although little hard information was released concerning the nature of targets and the level of damage inflicted by the air campaign , it appeared that the initial attacks were directed against Iraqi command structures , airfields , missile sites , chemical and nuclear facilities and elements of civilian infrastructure such as electrical power plants . |
| 8 | It was emphasised that only limited information was available about the performance of Access students in higher education , and that the vast majority of students who had completed their higher education course came from one Access course . |
| 9 | Blackall rejected the Filmerian claim that only absolute monarchy was legitimate , and acknowledged that God had allowed different forms of government to develop in different places at different times . |
| 10 | Although he put the poem to one side it still continued to worry him , and in October he explained to Mary Hutchinson that the contemporary situation was such that only good work was appropriate ; bad writing , after all , would seem even more trivial or superfluous . |
| 11 | The answer to this important clinical problem was shown by experiments ( between 1950 and 1967 ) on a variety of animals from rabbits to monkeys , which showed that only artificial ventilation was a reliable method of resuscitation . |
| 12 | The Euromonitor survey also found that enviromentally friendly stationery was becoming more popular , especially among the Germans . |
| 13 | The committee remained convinced that largely unintentional racism was an important factor behind West Indian underachievement , a claim not undermined by the high achievement of Asians , since stereotyped views of them were generally much less negative , and racism might have different effects on different groups . |
| 14 | By the time it met , however , the momentum for greater political co-operation within the EC , not least in response to East European developments , was such that more radical reform was put in motion . |
| 15 | One of the major costs of implementing new technology was the need to train for new skills , but Ms Edwards found that once new technology was adopted it was often under-used or misapplied because of the lack of expertise and investment . |
| 16 | Let us remember that under Labour inflation was an average 15% and at one time a massive 27% . |
| 17 | In Spain , a competitive framework that formally favoured rail was systematically infringed in practice as even the pro-deregulation 1962 World Bank report conceded ( IBRD 1963 : 173 ; El País , 18 September 1983 , 10 October 1983 ) . |
| 18 | His more than usually lumpy appearance was accounted for by a variety of new bulges about his person , all promising delightful treats . |
| 19 | The plaintiff must prove that a duty of care was owed to him , that this was broken and that reasonably foreseeable damage was caused as a result . |
| 20 | Another deme with more than purely parochial status was Piraeus , whose demarch was a state appointment ( Ath . |
| 21 | It has also been claimed that towns were centres of consumption rather than production and that even local trade was insignificant in volume because of poor transport facilities , while long distance trade was with few exceptions restricted to luxuries because there was no mass-market . |
| 22 | Our overriding conclusion was that racially discriminatory behaviour was not an obvious or noticeable feature of court-room interactions . |
| 23 | Annabel Hogan had the face of someone who thought that very bad news was being kept from her . |
| 24 | Indeed that very initial act was only made possible through the Spirit who bestowed the gift of faith ( Eph. 2:8 ) . |
| 25 | Although very bright sunlight was required to generate enough power to achieve lift off , once in the air the plane flew like an ordinary glider . |
| 26 | She refused to flinch , or back away , even though she was uneasily and acutely aware that his broad and mostly naked chest was a few dangerous inches from her own . |
| 27 | Bullbaiting was a cruel exhibition wherein the tortured and eventually demented animal was chased through the streets by specially trained dogs and gleefully cheering citizens . |
| 28 | Well erm the er th th th the first and most horrific incidence was I think in the May , no no no it was n't May , it was when we went down to s to Cats in London which was at the end of eighty nine beginning of ninety and I went to , I went to the the doctor in June of nineteen ninety and odd things were sort of going through nineteen ninety , but it was n't until nineteen ninety one and I was off ill and it all went |
| 29 | The cheapest and most practical method was for the shikari to sit out over a tethered bait in a tree hide or machan waiting for the tiger to appear . |
| 30 | Scrutiny 's earliest and most protracted campaign was against the positivism of traditional literary scholarship . |