Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [prep] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and for and weights were in fourteens so |
| 2 | It is probably true to say that these new sensations were at first quite undetected , as such , by himself . |
| 3 | Progress on arrangements for the voluntary transfer of those in housing need from the big cities to the smaller surrounding townships was at first very slow . |
| 4 | Well the original discoveries were of some fairly simple molecules . |
| 5 | Some feared the use of the schools by proselytizers to indoctrinate the children in protestant principles , especially as the local managers were at first mainly clergy of the established church . |
| 6 | The IFS report Counting People With Low Incomes said that refusal ‘ does nothing to allay fears that the changes were for political rather than bona fide methodological reasons ’ . |
| 7 | If fully independent castellans such as those of Bemy and the Mâconnais remained a rarity , nevertheless the princes ' claim to control fortifications was at best spasmodically enforced , at worst absent in practice if recognized in theory . |
| 8 | Unionized workplaces were in 1980–84 actually more likely to suffer job losses ( after standardizing by product sector ) than non-unionized plants , which were more likely to enjoy job gains . |
| 9 | Welsh mothers were in general more concerned to keep an infant warm , although during the research period the publicity concerning the link between sudden infant death and temperature increased awareness of temperature , some mothers using room thermometers . |
| 10 | Reg On the Buses was like that as well . |
| 11 | While this was a good thing , such improvements were at first only superficial , and it was a long time before everyday living conditions in deaf boarding institutions and day classes were of acceptable standard . |
| 12 | In their rural isolation Belorussian peasants were at first little affected by anti-religious campaigns and actions emanating from the towns , even if priests disappeared and churches were commandeered . |
| 13 | As a result the A-level scores of the university graduates were in general substantially above those of the CNAA graduates . |
| 14 | It is also doubtful whether many hospitals were like that then . |
| 15 | It took a long time to break away from the idea that children were at best potentially evil and indolent , that they were little pitchers that had to be filled with information and moral guidance before they filled themselves with wickedness , idleness , and nonsense . |
| 16 | Of total foreign investment in Czechoslovakia over the previous 2 years only 11 per cent had gone to Slovakia , and the common perception was that the industries of the Czech Lands were in general better placed to benefit from the programme of rapid privatization emphasised by Klaus . |
| 17 | Her vast deposits were in 1880 still largely unexplored ; those of Silesia alone were believed to be even greater than the huge fields already opened in Great Britain . |
| 18 | Sometimes the slaps and punches were for real now , and my mother would cry up the stairs in alarm whenever she heard a sudden thump as I fell on the floor or bumped into the furniture . |
| 19 | The Bolsheviks at least promised to tackle regional socio-economic backwardness , and their bureaucratic intervention in the localities was at first less oppressive in some ways than in the Tsarist past simply for lack of personnel . |