Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference . |
| 2 | They were the one side he dare not lose sight of and United are off to Highbury at the weekend only four points adrift . |
| 3 | I did all those movies because they were the only work I could get , ’ Nicholson said in a frank assessment of his next few years of acting roles on the fringes of Hollywood , appearing almost entirely in low-cost , quickly made horror films , and what were then called teenage exploitation pictures , mostly with Roger Corman . |
| 4 | Peter wondered if he were the only person she had n't bothered to tell . |
| 5 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 6 | In fact , you were the first woman I 'd made love to in quite a long time , and I have n't even been interested in anyone since you were offered this job here and accepted it . |
| 7 | It were the first time I ever heard him do it . |
| 8 | After a while the whistle is repeated — by the same blackbird or by its mate — but always as if this were the first time it had occurred to him to whistle ; if this is a dialogue , each remark is uttered after long reflection . |
| 9 | The seaman — Gustave continued as if this were the best story he had heard for many years — apparently claimed that he had no notion of how the section of mast had reached the position in which it was found . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've always said you were the best blacksmith I ever had . ’ |
| 11 | You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . |
| 12 | ‘ Before we had the system , sick cards and payroll were the best method we had of monitoring absenteeism . |
| 13 | ‘ Barnet were the best side I 've seen this season and we have to admit they were better than us on the day but Northampton was one of those things . |
| 14 | She said ‘ Good morning ’ to several people as she went , and reached her head of department , Robert Drewer 's , office , having formed the view that it was no wonder that Massingham 's were the go-ahead company they were . |
| 15 | His lips trailing over her face were the greatest comfort she could think of . |
| 16 | If Labour were the biggest party he feared the FTSE100 Index could fall from its current 2,382.7 to 2,200 . |
| 17 | He did it again when , leaving her question hanging , he stepped closer , studied her scraped-back hairstyle , then , without so much as a by-your-leave , whipped her glasses from her nose — the better , it seemed , to check that her green eyes were the same green he had looked into during the early hours of Sunday morning . |
| 18 | It was grown now , and a good bit taller than me , but when I was young and we were the same size it had been my static catapult defending the southerly approaches to the island . |
| 19 | We are we we 've got an amp meter and a volt meter and I thought they were the same thing you see . |
| 20 | They 're alright down here , at least they were the last time we had them . |
| 21 | Getty believed in self-help , the philosophy of Samuel Smiles , though smiles were the last thing he could manage in public . |
| 22 | And er they thought they were the big cheese you see , th th th those who worked there . |
| 23 | You always were the honestest woman I ever knew . " |
| 24 | But if the Franks were the dominant partner it is difficult to explain why so much material should have been channelled towards England with little apparently going back in return . |
| 25 | Imagine , because they were a lower grade they 'd meant nothing you see . |
| 26 | If there were a great discrepancy it would be a matter for thought . |
| 27 | If you were a weak patient you would die . |
| 28 | And the foreman er we used to play about , lark about , throw orange peel at each other you know , cos it were a boring job you just stand like this and you could more or less close your eyes , you know . |
| 29 | If you favoured sweating it out , you sat around on tiered benches and chatted with your friends until you started dissolving into steam , and then got yourself scraped down by a slave with a sort of sickle thing called a strigil , and massaged , and oiled and perfumed , or if you were a real fanatic you probably went straight from the hot room to take a cold plunge , like sauna addicts rolling in the snow . |
| 30 | When you when you were a young boy I was gon na ask get off the island manage to get |