Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nerves on the first night at Taunton had been bad ; so had the understudy nerves of the first night at the Variety ; but they were nothing to the sheer blind terror that attended Charles Paris as he waited to go on stage in the role in which Michael Banks 's career had been so tragically cut short the night before . |
| 2 | Were nothing to the upset |
| 3 | Were nothing like the real thing |
| 4 | Allan Lamb took over the captaincy and did his best , but it soon became clear that without Gooch they were nothing like the same team . |
| 5 | On these walls were none of the usual posters bidding young mothers to drink milk in pregnancy and bring their toddlers for a twice-yearly check-up . |
| 6 | Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite . |
| 7 | There were none of the battered paperbacks usually left abandoned after rainy afternoons in holiday houses , no near pornography and , she thought , no detective stories , until she remembered the Sherlock Holmes collection beside the bed . |
| 8 | Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution . |
| 9 | The permanent staff was gradually purged to other camps until there were none of the original ‘ old people ’ left . |
| 10 | Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay . |
| 11 | Moreover , the papers were run as political ventures ; there were none of the commercial , management , planning and sales activities that were to be found at the Standard . |
| 12 | There were none in the general field of PVC calendering but only in the special field of PVC for adhesive tape . |
| 13 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 14 | ‘ How long were you at the High School ? ’ |
| 15 | Where were you for the first eight ? |
| 16 | And there were you in the next bedroom , you and Arthur . |
| 17 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 18 | ‘ Maybe people would think we were something like the British Labour Party , ’ he said hopefully . |
| 19 | Were we on the right track at all ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Were they on the same side of the path as the moor gate ? ’ 'Yes . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Other signalmen had similar stories to tell and some refused to work the box , so frightened were they of the strange events . |
| 24 | What were they like the two the maids , were they young girls ? |
| 25 | When would that have been about this were they in the second division then or |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | How different were they in the seventeenth century from today ? |
| 28 | These Rotaflex ones that you spoke of , were they in the fifties or the early sixties ? |
| 29 | Were they in the fifties , sixties or the seventies ? |
| 30 | 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 . |