Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Warshow was to argue quite rightly that there must have been much vicarious pleasure in the enjoyment of these films for audiences could watch gangsters break the law , use violence , take risks , and die but were free themselves to leave the theatre safely . |
| 2 | You 'd go to you 'd go to bed in a well if you were lucky you had a nightshirt or even in your own shirt that you was , as a young man you would . |
| 3 | Seven per cent reported that their symptoms were unchanged which reflects the difficulty of being certain that symptoms are caused by gallstones . |
| 4 | Once they were snowbound she put the task off again and it was not until early March that the thaw began . |
| 5 | A gang of girls I met in Coventry hanging around with some boys who , like them , were unemployed , said that when they were younger they did a bit of vandalising : " When I got pissed I smashed the windows of posh houses , " said one of them . |
| 6 | I 've erm when Amanda and Claire were younger I bought a milk shake thing from |
| 7 | When they were little they had a little artificial tree and put out their stockings on Christmas Eve . |
| 8 | Did n't matter , we were glad you had a good long sleep , cos it makes you |
| 9 | ‘ We were confident we had the quality to beat our rivals but we had been held back by the exchange rates , ’ said , sales manager plastic compounds . |
| 10 | It was against that background that the judges and staff of the court had throughout the year been examining what measures were feasible which tip the balance in the direction of reducing delays , either by an improved system for screening appeals or by an improved system for handling them or both . |
| 11 | Undoubtedly these evasions were possible because among the clergy as a whole were many who served the king and depended upon his protection against the rigours of canon law , and because the pope , in his defence of the monarchy , undermined the independence and confidence of the prelates . |
| 12 | Like this woman 's brother , there were many who found the displacement and emotional pain overpowering . |
| 13 | Amidst the myriad of small pro-unity organisations formed after 1946 there were many who favoured a continental federation , with a common parliament , cabinet and economic policy . |
| 14 | If they were good they had a choice : share a banana split , or a trip to the pet shop to watch the gerbils screw . |
| 15 | What puzzled observers was that , if the umpires were unsure who caused the collision , prompting a green flag , why should they penalise Conner ? |
| 16 | Last year , this union held a ballot and a hundred and forty thousand members took part in that ballot for the leader of the Labour Party and they made it absolutely clear to the executive that as far as they were concerned they wanted a part and a say in who was the leader of the Labour Party , and they di decided dem democratically . |
| 17 | According to international development director Edward Sharp , the brands which emerged most strongly were those which adopted a pan-European approach to their above-the-line marketing , but a more flexible , country-by-country approach to direct marketing and promotions . |
| 18 | The least successful schools were those which implemented the minimum programme asked for by GIST : administration of questionnaires to children , allowing women visitors into the school and piloting , more or less reluctantly , teaching materials devised by the team . |
| 19 | Between the wars , in a word , English literature briefly ceased to be British , and there were those who imagined the change might easily be irreversible . |
| 20 | He was compared with Aristides the Just , and there were those who wished a similar fate for him . |
| 21 | Kelman ( 1988 ) in particular takes this kind of line , pointing out that those most opposed to the Vietnam war were those who had no chance of actually going there and being in danger . |
| 22 | Young found that the potential clients most amenable to the idea of headhunting were those who had a particularly confidential recruitment problem on their hands , situations when it was essential that no one either inside or outside the company knew what was going on ‘ ’ the real cloak and dagger stuff ’ . |
| 23 | In terms of Darwinian theory , the most successful groups were those who had the highest reproduction rate . |
| 24 | In the USSR as well as outside it there were those who had an interest in attacking the record of these years ; they included the ‘ spiritual heirs ’ of Menshevism , of Trotsky and of the kulaks . |
| 25 | Amongst the coterie of fanatical enthusiasts around Leese , the most interesting were those who comprised the ‘ literary board ’ of The Fascist . |
| 26 | One officer said that it was so precise that his men could have leaned against it ; another , that his only casualties were those who followed the wall too closely and became queasy from the fumes of explosives . |
| 27 | The argument was partly about nationalism — there were those who resented the fact that the country 's most prestigious and successful newspaper belonged to a foreign company and was edited by a European — but , more importantly , it was also about the degree of freedom which could or should be permitted . |
| 28 | Landor 's want of training and his impatience to press on with all speed made him an unreliable surveyor , and there were those who impugned the veracity of his hair-raising escapes ; but in energy and resourcefulness , in courage and power of endurance , he was the equal of any of the previous generation of great explorers . |
| 29 | Ross objects that Moore himself was guilty of confusing a contestable moral judgement in favour of his ideal utilitarian position with an account of the meaning of an ethical expression in much the same way as were those who committed the naturalistic fallacy by offering naturalistic or metaphysical definitions of ‘ good ’ . |
| 30 | But consideration of the process by which family size was negotiated between husband and wife is crucial , especially when evidence suggests that the couples who were most successful in controlling their fertility between the wars were those who discussed the issue and reached agreement . |