Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But former executives and advisers to both companies told Esquire that the failures were due primarily to mismanagement and bad decision-making . |
| 2 | It is possible that the different results for dichotic recognition of melodies obtained by Kimura ( 1964 ) and Gordon ( 1970 ) were due not to stimulus differences in the two experiments but to differences in the musical experience of the subjects employed . |
| 3 | Certainly , more science teachers would be needed , yet even if that were possible where on earth would they teach their pupils ? |
| 4 | Caroline modelled not for Valentino but for Fabbiano and designers like him , whose careers would last only fractionally longer than the lives of fruit flies , whose successes were dependent not on talent but on flash and dash . |
| 5 | She had taught in a language school in Birmingham three mornings a week , a language school with a crèche , run by an enlightened Belgian woman , where Charlotte and Luke had gone until they were old enough for school . |
| 6 | His daughters came on their ponies to Auntie 's shop to buy sweets , and they were educated at home until they were old enough for boarding-school . |
| 7 | They were not er they were old enough to work , they were much older than me . |
| 8 | The gnarled shapes were unmistakable even in semi-darkness . |
| 9 | They were 10-15 down at half-time . |
| 10 | By the time he left the Old Kent Road school , he had absorbed the classics , learnt French , and was proficient in mathematics and in the sciences which were attainable only by university students . |
| 11 | ‘ We were fresh out of art school , we had nothing , no money , we were alone in the world , but we knew that we were artists , and we wanted to make that the artwork , ’ says George . |
| 12 | But they were similar enough in method and assumption to suggest possible cross-fertilization . |
| 13 | Life has improved immeasurably since the first provincial premier , Joey Smallwood , began coaxing his people out of the hundreds of little ports that were accessible only by fishing boat and into more urban living . |
| 14 | The stones edging the flower beds were dark now with rain . |
| 15 | Further pressure caused Mariners ' handling to deteriorate and with three penalties successfully kicked by Bannatyne , 'Mere were 13–0 up by halftime . |
| 16 | Such direct communication , if not with Hitler , might have summoned German naval reinforcements , but no aircraft was available north of Trondheim , more than 400 miles and two flying hours to the south , because all the northern airfields early that spring were operational only for transport aircraft fitted with skis . |
| 17 | But that day , all of a sudden , you 'd never know we were hard up for business . |
| 18 | Bristol fixture is a 100 hundred years old … and it was a happy birthday for the cherry and whites as they ran away with it … there 'll be no telegrams from the Queen for Bristol though just a few nasty looks from the coach … first try was scored by Neil Matthews and Gloucester with help of a penalty were 11-6 up at half-time … |
| 19 | Six years ago there were 6,211 out of work in the Darlington constituency , in January there were 4.365 . |
| 20 | Sheikh Deedat quoted one sentence which said white women were useful only for copulation . |
| 21 | Only later did I appreciate what sacrifices my mother made to give it to us , and how lonely she must often have been when we were all away at school ; after our father 's death she became almost possessively devoted to us . |
| 22 | But a few years ago we were at a session in a pub one night erm playing music and er there was about twenty of us and about two o'clock in the morning the police raided it and we all had our names taken and we were all up in court and we were all fined I think three pound for being er drinking after hours and Tony was drinking a cup of coffee . |
| 23 | if I thought you were all out of work |
| 24 | His clothes were all out of shape , and so was he . |
| 25 | A commodity never difficult to find , in John-William 's experience , particularly now when the Chartist leaders , who had been locked up after the troubles of 1839 , were all out of prison again ; except for that Sheffield lad , of course , who 'd died at twenty-seven , from the hard labour he 'd been put to at Northallerton jail . |
| 26 | At this date such illustrations were uncommon even in engineering , where drawing was becoming both a serious matter and something like an art form . |
| 27 | Man Utd were 1–0 down at home to QPR at 1/2 time but … won 2–1 and are now 11 ( ! ! ) points clear . |
| 28 | Sometimes they were responsible only for work directly connected with production , but in some cases they were responsible also for development work , drainage and ventilation . |
| 29 | Sometimes they were responsible only for work directly connected with production , but in some cases they were responsible also for development work , drainage and ventilation . |
| 30 | Her period then came early and flooded and the symptoms were severe enough to warrent a new prescription ( the Staphisagria was n't helping ) which came out to Millefolium . |