Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sea trials began in November 1924 and were everything the wind-tunnel experiments had promised . |
| 2 | Why were there no financial records for 1887 and 1888 ? |
| 3 | There would be no epistemic appearances were there no such beings . |
| 4 | Not only were there no great causes left , as Look Back in Anger would have it . |
| 5 | Why were there no hot compresses on his limbs ? |
| 6 | Elections were not the only occasions when those below the level of the elite could give voice to their political inclinations , nor were they the only points of contact between the world " out-of-doors " and that of Westminster . |
| 7 | Not only were they the longest hours they had ever been called upon to endure , but the coldest . |
| 8 | Societies of boys were what the public schools essentially remained , with the masters forming no more than a thin crust of adult authority . |
| 9 | Mm why was it a hundred degrees ? |
| 10 | What was it the air-raid wardens shouted when they saw a house with a chink of light showing ? |
| 11 | Why was it the gorgeous ones passed through so fleetingly while others , like that paunchy , moist-palmed Vic Tatum from Marine Claims always managed to delay in her office , ogling , leering and making suggestive remarks that she could probably take to a Sexual Harassment Tribunal if she had a mind to ! |
| 12 | Nor was it the disturbing rumours that by December 26 the country could be in the grip of a new and particularly alien ‘ Made in Taiwan ’ midwinter flu . |
| 13 | Was it the same wages ? |