Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She and the others — when they let their capes fall open-were wearing one-piece outfits of a lighter and duller blue than their capes , with black boots and belts . |
| 2 | They were replenished each evening with barrels of muddy water brought from the lake on donkey carts . |
| 3 | Most of the Jokaero spy-flies were transmitting tiny facets of war 's aftermath within the city , a grim mosaic . |
| 4 | On this were arranged thick candles in red glass jars , two vases of dahlias , a small plaster statue of Our Lady . |
| 5 | When 343 workers were sacked last February for going on strike over lay-offs and cuts in benefits ( 80% were women , some with 35 years of service ) , 270 others rushed to take their jobs . |
| 6 | This anomaly could , however , be remedied if the courts were to embrace novel theories of what constitutes loss given the novel essence of insider dealing . |
| 7 | The case for such objective assessment before operation seems particularly strong in women over the age of 50 because they may have suffered occult damage to the anal sphincter during the childbirth and could be at particular risk of a poor functional outcome if the sphincter were to sustain further damage at the time of operation . |
| 8 | BY last night two teachers were outstripping all others in the race to be Teacher of the Year . |
| 9 | The official statistics revealed that even legal abortions were outstripping live births in the 1980s . |
| 10 | In Victoria Street Lytle 's and McCausland 's warehouses were completed two years before Ewart 's . |
| 11 | In 1990 they were halted 90 miles from the Pole by wide stretches of open water.Having already travelled more than 500 miles from their starting point in Siberia , they set a record anyway for the longest unsupported polar journey.Then Sir Ranulph abandoned the polar cold for the desert heat , to find Ubar , before again teaming up with Dr Stroud for this winter 's headline-making trek to the South Pole , breaking their own record for the longest unsupported polar journey ever made.They returned in February and Sir Ranulph still can not tolerate running shoes on his frost-bitten feet , to train for his next expedition — ‘ another hot one . ’ |
| 12 | Among these were a number of scions of William the Conqueror 's knights whose descendants were to wield great influence in Scotland 's tumultuous history : Bernard de Bailleul ( later Balliol ) ; Robert de Brus ( Bruce or ‘ the Bruce ’ ) ; and Walter FitzAlan , who became hereditary Steward of Scotland , a title leading ultimately to the name and royal family of Stewart . |
| 13 | Tracer laid stitches across the sky : the bombers still in formation were firing long shots at him . |
| 14 | Whilst dealers were firing difficult questions at the representative of an CTC traded company on the floor of one licensed dealer a couple of light fingered dealers were at work , helping themselves to their colleagues leads . |
| 15 | W. B. Glover maintains in his valuable study of Nonconformist reaction to ‘ higher criticism ’ that ‘ by 1900 the Nonconformists were producing biblical scholars with international reputations ’ . |
| 16 | Experiments illustrated in figure 1 on fires in a storage of goods on pallets in open racks showed that in three minutes after ignition , the flames were growing at a dangerous rate , and that after eight minutes the flames had encompassed the whole height of the racking ( 18 m ) and were producing large volumes of acrid smoke . |
| 17 | The weaver bird study suggested that the motivational systems of individual members of different species were producing contrasting strategies of dispersion and pair formation neatly graded to suit environmental conditions . |
| 18 | It was in the shape of a V with the entrance at the point of the V. We covered both trenches with large pieces of wood scrounged from the back garden of Brigade H.Q On top of the wood were placed thick pieces of turf which acted as very good camouflage . |
| 19 | A board beside it bore a specification of the car and an outline of the services offered by Hazards Limited , who were sponsoring this prize for the first player to ace the hole . |
| 20 | And the people who were farming Blind Beck at the time killed a pig and sent down a lovely pork pie to us . |
| 21 | Advocates of the view that primary education should be placed in the hands of the clergy failed to win their case , but priests were given entire control of religious instruction and assigned a major role in the new provincial schools councils . |
| 22 | Social workers were given specific help in identifying their function to find ways to keep old people at home who might otherwise have gone into a residential home . |
| 23 | In the following decade many local police forces were given new powers to discipline drunk and disorderly street-walkers , powers strengthened under the Licensing Act , 1872 . |
| 24 | Many of the houses were given new façades in the Renaissance and then again in the late 17 and 18C . |
| 25 | Subjects were given varying amounts of contextual information . |
| 26 | They were given joint custody of Emma and Lucy , with Gabrielle having care and control . |
| 27 | From his mother , and her more easy-going and less consciously nonconformist relations , he found sanctions for that profound exploration of sensations that were given early expression in his gift for ‘ composition ’ . |
| 28 | Some of the early prints were given additional colour by the artist and his friends . |
| 29 | Individuals who were expelled for political activity or failure to meet the fees — or simply for poor examination results — were given additional grounds for grievance , while the punishment of an entire college tended to strengthen student esprit de corps . |
| 30 | After the First World War some Kerries were exported to France to help repopulate areas which had been decimated by war and the small black cattle were given prime grazing in orchard meadows near the River Somme ; within nine months they looked like beef animals ! |