Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dreamers were for ever the vanguard , or maybe for ever the forlorn hope . |
| 2 | On Harrogate , erm I think the discussions have clarified a lot of the the sort of outstanding issues that that er were between perhaps the County Council and erm Professor Lock , er not so much between ourselves and Harrogate , although we have the the issue , and I think if I read it right , this could well be er the only issue that is between us in the Harrogate area , the issue of the strategic sites . |
| 3 | Many of the initial questions were of exactly the type the previous week 's session had been intended to prevent . |
| 4 | It was only years later that I came to learn that the easily remembered collects were those that had been translated by Archbishop Cranmer from the Sacramentaries of Popes Leo , Gregory and Gelasius , while the difficult ones to remember were in almost every case the work of reformers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 5 | At the May feeing market at Bridgend very few first class servants were on the ground , nearly all present being " haflin lads and young girls " who were in almost every case asking exorbitant wages , but were glad latterly to come to more reasonable terms . |
| 6 | Hegarty also attacked the NIHT for the letting policy on its Belmont estate where , of 185 families , 48 were from outside the Derry area , 25 were policemen and 71 had made applications after 1 January 1959 : ‘ That makes 144 families who should never have been considered for housing at all , ’ he said . |
| 7 | None the less they were at once a part and a symptom of a great expansion of European wealth . |
| 8 | Official figures are not available on the number of pickets injured , but there were at least a couple of fatalities and it is the opinion of some observers that , in the major conflicts of the dispute , casualties amongst the pickets greatly exceeded those of the police ( Wallington , 1985 : 149 ) . |
| 9 | Up to then , however , on Dr Anstey 's figures the profits made were at least the equal of most other areas of investment , with 9.5 per cent being the aggregate decennial average from 1761 to 1807 . |
| 10 | Fearful anticipation had proved somewhat worse than the event , and most Viennese were coming round to the opinion that , whatever the failings of Napoleon 's men , they were at least an improvement upon the Hapsburgs ' Russian allies , whom everyone loathed . |
| 11 | And a strike in nickel mines in Canada a few years ago affected Britain seriously because they were by far the country 's biggest supplier . |
| 12 | In the London suburbs the general tendency was for practically every district to eventually deteriorate in status as the better-off families moved out and poorer ones moved in . |
| 13 | But also , and more importantly , the normal upward movement that was for long the solvent for discontent has been arrested . |
| 14 | One important direction of expansion was southward into the Altai-Sayan mountain region on the border of Mongolia , where the Russian town of Kuznetsk was for long an outpost threatened from west , south and east by the ‘ White Kalmyksn ( Teleuts and other Altaian tribes ) , the Oirats or western Mongols , and the Chinese . |
| 15 | Considerable discussion , interlaced with esoteric mathematics , resulted in the general agreement that it was worth about the equivalent of one very fat sacrificial boar . |
| 16 | Lloyds was advertising its services as a small business adviser at the time , but the bank still lent them the money without any business plan and despite a survey report saying it was worth quite a lot less than the loan . |
| 17 | Eventually , when he was persuaded to pose with some part of the violinist 's equipment , it was with just a bow . |
| 18 | Moreover , there was in both the Conservative and Labour Parties at this time a widespread mistrust and fear of Lloyd George . |
| 19 | But , after seeing Thoroughly Modern Millie , I honestly felt that I could n't take a whole movie in which Carol was in practically every scene . |
| 20 | Everyone was in rather a hurry and I am always bad at catching people 's names . |
| 21 | Obviously I should have provided more text than I did , but I suppose I was in rather a hurry . |
| 22 | In Oxfordshire the Stonesfield slate-pits and mines shut down one by one during the second half of the nineteenth century ; in Leicestershire the Swithland slate-quarries , which had been worked since Henry III 's time , shut down altogether in 1887 ; and so it was in nearly every county in England . |
| 23 | You could n't cut them that day cos they were hot , you see , the day you killed them the , cos father was a rare man he , when we got , we got two fridges , we used to kill a week in hand , you see , one lot was in one fridge , that was in there a week before we touched it yeah . |
| 24 | While she — she was in quite a bargaining position . |
| 25 | Jacqui was in quite a state . |
| 26 | ‘ I know , but she phoned for her results — she was surprised to get me , she seemed to have hoped you 'd be waiting by the phone — and when I told them you 'd gone , her mother took the phone and was in quite a tizz and had a word with Mr Fry and then said they 'd get the next plane home . |
| 27 | He took her arm firmly and Jenna was in quite a dilemma . |
| 28 | Treleaven was until recently a pipe fitter . |
| 29 | Darlington is well provided with Catholic schools and as Father Cademan is a member of the Diocesan Schools Commission and was until recently a county councillor , one might ask why did recent rebuilding proceed on the basis of an under-estimation of demand ? |
| 30 | That was until about a year ago when the last Silicon party was held in Utrecht . |