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Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I settled for a quality pie inside the ground — they were temperature-controlled by a woman who stuck a fancy knitting needle in them all .
2	When it came to childraising , although they were libertarian towards the baby , they seemed conservative towards Phoebe 's needs : demand feeding and endless devotion seemed to be required of her .
3	So ground and air were dry with a touch of steel
4	By now his eyes were used to the darkness but he could make out very little .
5	She had to cross the road again to get back to their apartment ; now that her eyes were used to the darkness it seemed as bright as day out of doors , and her blue cotton dress incandescent white .
6	" The mills were hot and dusty , and we were used to the cold .
7	The inhabitants were used to the smell , which mixed in nicely with the odours from Deller 's soap factory and the mingled scents from the river .
8	They were used to the job .
9	Cronin and Macdonald were outstanding at the lineout , winning the ball almost at will , and the tourists also had a decided edge in the scrums .
10	Under the Wedgwood Savings Related Share Option Scheme , options were outstanding over a total of 13,974,414 Ordinary Shares at a price of 14.5p Sterling , exercisable under normal circumstances within the period of six months from 14 December 1995 ; over 2,351,041 Ordinary Shares at a price of 29p Sterling , exercisable under normal circumstances within a period of six months from 1 January 1997 or 1 January 1999 , depending on the savings period ; and over 4,896,200 Ordinary Shares at a price of 12.5p Sterling , exercisable under normal circumstances within a period of six months from 1 November 1997 or 1 November 1999 , depending on the savings period .
11	An increase in registrations for courses such as Presentation Skills , which were under-subscribed in the Autumn , was encouraging and suggested that staff were becoming more aware of the programme and that its reputation was growing .
12	Typhoid and cholera and , most common , tuberculosis were rampant throughout the population .
13	By the way , ’ added the WPC , ‘ I thought you were terrific at the conference yesterday .
14	I believe you were due for the afternoon off tomorrow .
15	Dr Schussler , who had a particular interest in physiology , considered that a number of diseases were due to a deficiency of one or more of these salts and thought that if a patient exhibited the symptoms of a remedy — for instance Natrum muriaticum — there was a deficiency of this salt in the patient 's body .
16	The achievements of the Dorset industry , which must have been under very astute management , were due to the presence of Poole Harbour , where the pottery must have been crated and shipped for its journey on the western route with its useful points of entry , the Bristol Channel , the Dee and Mersey , the Solway Firth and the Clyde .
17	5.18.1 If the Tenant shall fail to pay the rents or any other sum due under this Lease [ within [ 14 ] days of the date due ] whether formally demanded or not the Tenant shall pay to the Landlord Interest on the rents or other sum from the date when they were due to the date on which they are paid [ and such Interest shall be deemed to be rents due to the Landlord ]
18	The three cases of misclassification of delirium were due to the time delay between the team and research assessments ; by the time of the second assessment , the delirium apparent at the first had substantially resolved to reveal an underlying depression or dementia , or both .
19	Mr Mulcahy said Dixons ' claim that its results were due to the downturn in the electrical market was untrue .
20	‘ I suspect these wounds were due to the body being trampled in the fury of battle . ’
21	At this point it was obvious that there were some shortcomings in the manner of carrying out the analysis , but these were due to the research nature of the project and the consequent inexperience of the project team .
22	Tables IV and V show that the changes in the VHAI in both groups were due to the improvement in most items included in the index .
23	The Governors wrote again , to say that they considered that the School 's present difficulties and deficit of £170 6 4d were due to the introduction of the previous Scheme ( by then only six years old ! ) and to the establishment of Higher Grade Schools in connection with Elementary Schools .
24	They were due at the start of the season .
25	Health minister Virginia Bottomley and Baroness Blatch were due in the North-East today .
26	Despite the improvement from IBM 's personal computer business , overall profits were weak in the company 's hardware operations : the gross profit margin on hardware sales for the first quarter was a dismal 29% , compared with 48% a year ago ( a decline of 19% has been bandied about , but that came from someone that does n't understand percentages — it 's a fall of 19 percentage points or 39.6% ) ; the overall gross margin was 39.5% in the first quarter , down from 50.8% a year ago ; IBM 's tax rate was 25% in the first quarter , below the 45% rate IBM had indicated earlier ; IBM told analysts to continue to expect the 45% rate for the rest of this year .
27	‘ We spread the ball , supported players quickly and were solid in the scrummage .
28	A message from Mr Dubcek to the crowd in Prague , read by the economist who advised him in 1968 , called for the resignation of all those in the present leadership who were resposible for the invasion and its aftermath .
29	A message from Mr Dubcek to the crowd in Prague , read by the economist who advised him in 1968 , called for the resignation of all those in the present leadership who were resposible for the invasion and its aftermath .
30	Since my remarks were unnecessary for the decision , R. not having yet attained the age of 16 , I am free to reconsider the matter and to reach an opposite conclusion .