Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pos pn] [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 | 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 . |
9 | On the main stand we were promoting our new premium range of Omega Elite dog foods . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | By 1805 the firm of Boulton & Watt were selling their first commercial gas plants . |
12 | Leeds were wearing their new away kit . |
13 | 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 ] ! |
14 | ‘ We were flying our usual tight formation that the 401st was famous for , with the wings overlapping ’ . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Behind us , Carlssen and Harley were having their own private battle . |
18 | Connors had kept very quiet for Connors , while Kress and I were having our little friendly talk . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | I bet you were shitting your elegant white pants when you heard I was here . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Nearly all were undertaking their own personal therapy or had done so in the past , and all were appropriately supervised . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Uzbekistan took control of all union enterprises on its territory and was to conduct its own foreign policy . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | As the result of some petty altercation with the Bishop of St Peter 's , that church was ‘ demoted ’ by the king into the parish of St Pancras , and St Paul 's was given its own separate parish . |