Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Job evaluation , however , was an ideal application for the use of interactive computing during negotiations in that : ( i ) the issues were clear cut and technical ( no elements of pure judgement , such as the value of a cooperation clause , were present , for example ) ; ( ii ) several different facets of the outcome were important ( grade specific rates of upgrading being relevant , not merely the overall upgrading figure ; the effect on individual formations , not just the overall position ) making manual calculations particularly slow and cumbersome . |
| 2 | This follows a feasibility study funded by ESRC ( 1984-1986 ) in which the methods were successfully demonstrated and half the material was processed ( 10,000 sheets ) . |
| 3 | And er but at er there you 'd got to go for the other two years , and some parents were rather wondering whether that left you late in the queue for a job , because jobs were very difficult . |
| 4 | Instead they simply enlarged until , by the time that the caterpillar was full grown , they were vastly distended and many thousand times bigger than their original size . |
| 5 | Professor T , R. Lee said that people were exercised about the dangers to life from railways when they were new , but they were eventually seen as negligible , with the implication for some that the same sequence would happen with nuclear energy . |
| 6 | The Labour government proved unwilling to pursue a more overtly socialist approach ; physical controls acquired during wartime were eventually discarded and those industries that were nationalized , such as steel and the railways , were basically essential and loss-making concerns . |
| 7 | In 1979 households were delicately ordered and hierarchical social groups in which the senior man had nominal control of everyone : of the women and children , of the other men and , in the experience of living men and women , of attached client and slave households . |
| 8 | But are they the inevitable companions of hierarchy , or perhaps a product of the misuse of hierarchy that would disappear if hierarchy were properly understood and structured ? |
| 9 | Of course my main concern in the late 1970s was to ensure that aircraft accidents were properly investigated and that sufficient importance was being attached to recommendations for the prevention of more accidents . |
| 10 | The proposals were widely regarded as unrealistic , with adverse criticism ( at varying strengths ) from the Law Society , the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee on Legal Aid , NACAB , the Legal Action Group and others . |
| 11 | The latter were widely regarded as corrupt and impure ( see for example the views on Cockney cited in note 1 , above ) . |
| 12 | If , as is argued here , the representatives of the state at the local level were widely viewed as indigenous , what prompted nationalist agitation ? |
| 13 | Reforms were widely seen as essential if the current deadlock in trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) were to be broken [ see p. 38411 ] , but the Commission 's proposals were criticized on July 15-16 by EC agriculture ministers , notably by the Netherlands and the United Kingdom on the grounds that they favoured inefficient smaller farmers . |
| 14 | Both results ( running counter to the trend in the East German elections of March 18 — see pp. 37300-02 ) were widely interpreted as indicative of West German voters ' concern at the costs and pace of the German unification process . |
| 15 | The results in rectal mucosa of twins with Crohn 's disease were widely scattered and affected twins did not differe significantly from normal controls . |
| 16 | The passion generated by the abortion issue , however , meant that such measures were bitterly opposed and few had been approved by the beginning of March 1990 . |
| 17 | Three matches in six days since winning the ZDS Cup have proved too much and former Forest favourite Trevor Francis ' lively Wednesday were rarely troubled while two more Forest old boys , Wilson and Sheridan , ran the midfield . |
| 18 | The women were badly injured and two of them have been unable to return to work . |
| 19 | But their troops were badly trained and inexperienced and rain and fog turned the ground into a quagmire , which prevented the use of their aircraft and impeded the advance of their lorries and tanks . |
| 20 | Two houses in Berelands Road were badly damaged and two in Hillside Avenue were demolished . |
| 21 | ‘ But they were badly hurt and frightened ! ’ |
| 22 | Social change , therefore , was unlikely to come from the top and the peasantry were badly educated and impoverished smallholders . |
| 23 | The United States cut back on government spending and on financial support to its former allies , despite the fact that the allies were economically devastated and desperate for dollars both because of fiscal conservatism and the leftist nature of the new European governments . |
| 24 | Industrial tribunals as we heard yesterday from Ian have decided they were wrongly dismissed and that indicates the standard of the union locally but poses the question of why it was impossible for our officials , from the General Secretary downwards , to effect any influence whatsoever on the attitude of Liverpool City Council . |
| 25 | Money was short in the party by 1921 because there had been no proper revival since the war ; members were constantly described as apathetic , and were in no mood to give their time or their money to a party that did not know where it was going . |
| 26 | they were highly organised and ideologised and , prompted by a sympathetic political situation and finally by the political actions of management , they became a powerful militant force . |
| 27 | They were much needed since one of the leading rebels , Vulgrin of Angoulême , had not only put his castles in a state of readiness but was able to take the field with a force of Brabançons . |
| 28 | I recently took the ‘ little people ’ along to my local Heron Knitting Club where they were much admired and one of our members — in fact my former knitting machine tutor — said that she had once made a whole Nativity scene with empty cones . |
| 29 | His eyelids drooped and his limbs no longer felt the bitter chill ; they were merely numbed and heavy . |
| 30 | Cameras in the Lords seemed to cause no great problems : perhaps some of their major debates were better attended and persistent viewers became aware of the varied quality of the contributions to debates . |