Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gods were enjoying their own cruel joke ! |
| 2 | By the time that the Educational Facilities Laboratories and the National Endowment for the Arts were producing their two excellent booklets on the reuse of railroad stations in 1974 and 1975 , only one per cent of all inter-city travel was by train . |
| 3 | If software applications were to include their own specific operating systems they might well be more efficient , but they would be unwieldy , expensive to develop and could not interact with other applications or with the variety of computer hardware designs . |
| 4 | It is as if we were to carry our own sonic searchlight with us . |
| 5 | Mum was leading the chorus and us kids were singing our own dirty ditties . |
| 6 | My Trial , Cave and the Bad Seeds were staging their own dilapidated equivalents to ‘ By the Time I Get to Phoenix ’ and ‘ Something 's Gotten Hold of My Heart ’ , in the gently obliterating , slowly gathering , morose grandeur of ‘ Sad Waters ’ and ‘ Stranger Than Kindness ’ . |
| 7 | And as if one needed reminding that there 's more to this year 's contest than Karaoke , four of the 11 acts competing were to provide their own original accompaniment . |
| 8 | And just as impulsively she turned to check on the movements of that incalculable swarm of half-grown children who were causing him this natural anxiety . |
| 9 | In the announcement of their forthcoming System 7 software they revealed that they were moving towards the concept of using outline fonts to generate the screen displays and that they were developing their own proprietary format , then known as Royal but subsequently re-named TrueType . |
| 10 | On the main stand we were promoting our new premium range of Omega Elite dog foods . |
| 11 | Part-time employment was often the only paid employment they could find , while others had little choice but to work part-time if they were to fulfil their changing domestic commitments . |
| 12 | By 1805 the firm of Boulton & Watt were selling their first commercial gas plants . |
| 13 | Leeds were wearing their new away kit . |
| 14 | Brenda ( seventeen , Jamaican parents ) commented that in Jamaica she had been teased as a " foreigner " because her Creole was not up to scratch : Oh , they call you all — " English gyal , come here English gyal ! " yeh , my sister 'ad it all , my sister ai n't English , my sister 's Jamaican , because she come over here when she was young , when she went back over there they were callin' her English gyal , the lot [ ] but when she , she ai n't forget nothin' , she can still speak it so she open her mouth and they say sorry [ ri ] ! |
| 15 | ‘ We were flying our usual tight formation that the 401st was famous for , with the wings overlapping ’ . |
| 16 | Among the million and a half dispatched from urban Britain into the countryside were between two to three thousand refugee children who were experiencing their second dramatic upheaval within months . |
| 17 | But it was her North African journeys that were to give her two short stories , and she wrote with enthusiasm of the beautiful tajines she had eaten in Morocco . |
| 18 | Behind us , Carlssen and Harley were having their own private battle . |
| 19 | Connors had kept very quiet for Connors , while Kress and I were having our little friendly talk . |
| 20 | His voice sounded lazily relaxed , but his eyes , in spite of the smile , were giving her such exciting messages that Kate , under his spell as never before , could feel her heart once more begin to beat with a heavy , sensuous rhythm . |
| 21 | I bet you were shitting your elegant white pants when you heard I was here . |
| 22 | In upholding Peck 's committal order , Judge White said Mancroft was not protected from arrest under Parliamentary privilege or as a peer of the realm in a situation where the courts were exercising their punitive disciplinary powers . |
| 23 | But there was disappointment for Britain with the men 's lightweight four of Christopher Bates , Carl Smith , Thomas Kay and Toby Hessian , who were chasing their third successive world gold . |
| 24 | Nearly all were undertaking their own personal therapy or had done so in the past , and all were appropriately supervised . |
| 25 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 26 | Moreover , if the person found themselves on income support when old , the calculations for income support would assume they were receiving their full old-age pension . |
| 27 | Uzbekistan took control of all union enterprises on its territory and was to conduct its own foreign policy . |
| 28 | Now she was using her pathetic pleading little voice , the one that still could affect him even though he knew she was performing , using all the tricks she used to keep her place as the most important member of her bloody drama group . |
| 29 | Those who saw it at the time have never been able to erase the startling impact that it made when it was given its short-lived British premiere at Sadler 's Wells in 1965 . |
| 30 | The theatre was given its own legal status in the Theatres Act 1968 , but the anomalous position of the cinema was not revealed until 1975 , when the President and Secretary of the BBFC were charged with aiding and abetting an indecent exhibition , namely the showing by Classic Cinemas Ltd of the Swedish sex-education film Language of Love . |