Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Line 7 , and Aigle , two French boot makers , were there with a new range of fabric boots , many with Gore-Tex bootees and several models for women . |
| 32 | However , in southern Australia , there are some southern rain-forest species still with large diaspores , and fossil evidence suggests that the extinct cassowary relations , the Dromornithidae , were there in the Pleistocene . |
| 33 | ‘ Were they on the same side of the path as the moor gate ? ’ 'Yes . |
| 34 | Donna chewed her lip contemplatively as she read , forced to run her index finger beneath the words , so jumbled and irregularly formed were they on the faded page . |
| 35 | Other signalmen had similar stories to tell and some refused to work the box , so frightened were they of the strange events . |
| 36 | What were they like the two the maids , were they young girls ? |
| 37 | Were they in a like condition ? |
| 38 | And perhaps they would be now were they in a full democracy — one that embraced the interests and votes of all the citizens . |
| 39 | When would that have been about this were they in the second division then or |
| 40 | Basically the same poeple who wank on about Man Utd all the time being the biggest and best at everything — biggest Stadium ( aka sewer ) , biggest world support ( but where were they in the 1991–1992 season ? ) , best youth team ( I do n't think ) . |
| 41 | How different were they in the seventeenth century from today ? |
| 42 | These Rotaflex ones that you spoke of , were they in the fifties or the early sixties ? |
| 43 | Were they in the fifties , sixties or the seventies ? |
| 44 | Surely it could not be that , whilst they were classifying the laws governing the physical world , they were themselves under no moral order , but existing in a chaos of random motion ? |
| 45 | But no one here has treated me as though I were anything but a permanent staff member , so do n't have any worries on that score . ’ |
| 46 | Although very much the ‘ poor commons ’ paying for the most part a 5 per cent tax on their goods , they were anything but an undifferentiated whole . |
| 47 | She would crouch by the steps , ignored , till there was no-one on the narrow spiral stair , glide like a slim shadow up to the hall , and when the next stair was free , on up to the bower , where Catriona , wife of the Maclean 's piper , had a baby . |
| 48 | AN INJURED man had repeatedly told police that there was no-one in a derelict boarding house which had been destroyed in an explosion , a jury heard yesterday . |
| 49 | When other people arrived at the scene , and saw that there was no-one in the burnt-out cockpit , they assumed that the pilot had bailed out . |
| 50 | The women believed that the PDC 's stated concern for their welfare was nothing but a hollow promise : |
| 51 | Today the president , Mrs Macpherson , in between gracefully shaking hands with each new arrival and presenting her to Mrs MacDonald , decided that she was nothing but a vulgar upstart , and she trembled with suppressed irritation at having to stand in the same receiving line with her . |
| 52 | She was the sort that keeps coming , that never knows when they 're licked … the mad cockerel I once hit with my toy cricket bat — it was an accident , of course it was , but I had to keep hitting it and hitting it until it was nothing but a bloody pulp on splintered sticks . |
| 53 | There , where I had hoped to see a fine , impressive house , was nothing but a blackened heap of stones , with the silence of death about it . |
| 54 | And once they climbed so high they entered the clouds and there was nothing but a great whiteness around them as if the world had been erased by a giant rubber . |
| 55 | And when they got there , they found that both anticipation and anxiety had overestimated the occasion , for like the reception at the Hôtel de Ville , the dance was nothing but a stifling , uncomfortable , noisy , joyless crush . |
| 56 | Seaward there was nothing but a pearly opalescence which , though it seemed likely to vanish at any moment , effectively blocked out sea and sky . |
| 57 | Luke Calder was nothing but a ruthless manipulator who made people do what he wanted when he wanted it , yet all she could think of was that she wanted to feel again the hot urgency of his mouth ! |
| 58 | And it was during this time that he had lost his wife , lost his job , lost his sense of himself as a separate human soul , and in struggle worked out the theory that he was nothing but a sick character in the hands or under the pen of a malevolent Author . |
| 59 | Men , it seemed , were scarcely tolerated in the Jarman household and Mr Hawkins was nothing but a leftover from the days when old Mr Jarman was alive . |
| 60 | A few years ago , there was nothing but a brief ‘ coming next ’ . |