Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later Byzantine columns were monolithic and usually of marble . |
| 2 | The match-guising results were interesting because instead of the typical prestige of the standard language , and the attractiveness of a dia You know a If you did R P and say er Cockney , you 'd probably get people saying that their R P was prestigious but the cockney was sort of more you know y more friendly and more attractive accent . |
| 3 | The salute and stamp of boot on bare floor were smarter than normally as a consequence . |
| 4 | The wards were crowded and even in mid-winter very sick babies had to be wheeled out into the open air to get from one part of the hospital to another . |
| 5 | At first only one or two were built in each city ; they were large and generally on circular plan . |
| 6 | In a random sample of women in Camberwell , the researchers found the following relationships between provoking agents and depression , first among a sample of women who were vulnerable and secondly among a sample of women who were not . |
| 7 | I know , I know Brian would n't at least three but , and this , and this was n't really big enough and they use two side by side , whenever they were late or away for a weekend I took over and see to the cats feed , they were sweet erm used to come on the porch and meow at me , it 's my dinner time , come on , just get not time yet , used to come to the porch , and tell me , they used to know when I was n't coming home , how do they do it ? |
| 8 | More persuasively , it has to be borne in mind that these are passages which need to be read in the context not only of the cases in which they were concerned but also of the judgments as a whole . |
| 9 | Initially , both this and its French counterpart , the Academie des Sciences , were concerned as much with what we could call technology as with science . |
| 10 | He thus revealed that he was out of touch with contemporary reality and that the complex dynamics of civilian society were more than ever beyond the grasp of his mechanistic , military mind . |
| 11 | Now , from the mid-seventeenth century onwards , they were more than ever in evidence , as pamphleteers and propagandists ready to justify them grew in numbers . |
| 12 | But they were shocked that just over one in ten could bring the day to mind . |
| 13 | Relations between the Meskhetians and the Uzbek majority had been strained for some time , largely as a result of the poor housing and other conditions in which the Meskhetians had been forced to remain ( many still lived in shanty towns , and levels of unemployment were higher than elsewhere in the republic ) . |
| 14 | Consciousness of all these pressures did not improve Michael Banks 's concentration and , together with fatigue , ensured that the lines were worse than ever on the Friday afternoon run . |
| 15 | I crossed wet ground and came to a long , open piece of sand , then went on to a place where the trees had branches that were thick and close to the sand . |
| 16 | Then she saw that the verandah doors were open and inside in the shade on two wicker-chairs , talking earnestly to one another , were Rosette and Andrée . |
| 17 | Since 1948 numbers at Leasam reached a peak of 63 nests in 1950 , declined to an all-time low of five in 1963 , but have since recovered steadily ; the 1970 figure was 30 , and there were 23 or more in 1975 . |
| 18 | Those concerned were anxious that instead of recommending or condemning whole ranges of foods outright , balanced , moderate eating patterns should be encouraged . |
| 19 | Most of them were female and now in their late teens . |
| 20 | So-called ‘ ten thousand yuan households ’ , referring to the high incomes some farmers were now obtaining , were well-publicised and instead of being labelled as ‘ capitalist exploiters ’ were held up as models for emulation in the changing rural economic environment . |
| 21 | The basic tax would assume there were two or more in each household . |
| 22 | But , of course , it was n't my fault that my mother was pregnant and yet for years I felt that it was . |
| 23 | That they never bore fruit was due as much to Bolshevik neglect of them as to the eventual insistence from above on the abolition of the private farms . |
| 24 | Cobalt groaned and mumbled and made it clear he was alive if far from well . |
| 25 | He seemed not to dislike her , which was odd since apart from him all who knew her were united in this emotion . |
| 26 | Anna 's mother was upset but nowhere near as upset as Maria Jakob had been over the death of Melusina . |
| 27 | His chest was broad and hard behind her head . |
| 28 | In December 1946 de Gaulle was further than ever from power , while the world was closer to war . |
| 29 | Most of the time it was rigid and still under the hot sky but on the occasions when it swayed , though no one noticed a breeze , there was a tiny ticking noise of brittle head against dry stalk . |
| 30 | It was impossible to judge whether she was asking because she was interested or merely for the sake of politeness . |