Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kylie 's organisation believed the unofficial pictures were literally losing their star millions and whenever they saw those pictures on sale they moved to sue the publishers . |
| 2 | Lear is to be blamed for believing Goneril and Regan , yet since they were merely flattering his debased scale of values , in a test which he had himself devised , it is not surprising that he did so . |
| 3 | It meant that she started off at an advantage , for as soon as they imagined they had caused her misery they found that they were only confirming her grim and ribald idea of the way things would always be . |
| 4 | The criminals now embraced and encouraged their women , many of whom were patiently weeping their daily tearfall . |
| 5 | Although Pius conceded that popes were not exercising their full authority in these letters , if a view was expressed it was ‘ no longer [ to ] be a matter of free debate among theologians ’ . |
| 6 | In the middle ages , it was discovered that many regiments were not getting their fair share . |
| 7 | Eggs were always in short supply and I suppose the reason was that during the war we were not getting our usual supply from Denmark and the Low Countries , owing to the German occupation . |
| 8 | The sun had pierced through the mist , and they were not believing their good luck at being alive , and being cared for by the beautiful colleens . |
| 9 | They were not doing anything dangerous . ’ |
| 10 | Housing departments commonly complained that SSDs were not playing their full part in offering technical advice on adaptations , or in providing personal assistance support within the home . |
| 11 | To me , we were not offering anything different . |
| 12 | If the dream were to lose its power , if she were somehow to prevent it recurring , she must face again the memory of that afternoon nearly thirty years ago . |
| 13 | Then our Commanding Officer commanded Y Company , the Regimental Sergeant Major was a platoon Sergeant , and the majority of today 's soldiers were just starting their secondary schools in Hampshire . |
| 14 | An hour or so spent talking with other women about how weak , cruel , uncaring , lazy and insensitive their husbands were always made her tired . |
| 15 | The Social Security Minister suggested that unmarried women were deliberately getting themselves pregnant in order to be housed and Mrs Thatcher has endorsed this view saying that the problem arises from family instability and unrealistic expectations . |
| 16 | Sir Hugh said loyalists were rapidly developing their bomb-making skills . |
| 17 | It was the last time we were ever to see him alive . |
| 18 | In other words , on the divorce question the Roman catholic clerical leadership were still using their joint authority , which is legitimate in the eyes of the majority in the Southern state , to press into civil legislation their views of public morality , and to use the informed conscience of the faithful as the primary vehicle . |
| 19 | As we were still undergoing our basic training , we were not allowed to have a bar and nor would we be allowed to make a tour of the rest of the bars in the regiment , a ruling which Mike , Marius and myself were determined to do something about . |
| 20 | But the French were still running them close . |
| 21 | The warmth of his body , his cradling arms , were still having their softening effect on her physically , so she tried even harder to whip up her rage and indignation . |
| 22 | There was also a group of male students ; three soldiers on their way to have some specialist medical treatment , and a number of older couples of peasant stock who were probably visiting their well-to-do offspring in Paris . |
| 23 | A still , small voice inside him murmured ‘ this is all too easy ’ , but offers flooded in from the combines , the multi-nationals , the companies who had profited from the rape of the Earth , and who were now taking their ecological molestation into space . |
| 24 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 25 | If they dipped into that , they were knowingly making themselves insolvent . |
| 26 | Economic benefits from links with Japan could ease the impact of the loss of preferential trade arrangements with China and the Soviet Union , both of which were reportedly reducing their subsidized oil exports to North Korea and demanding hard-currency payment for future shipments of oil and other commodities . |
| 27 | You were n't doing anything individual it was more communion thing you were making the likes of if it was brown bread you 're all standing rolling up and chaffing brown bread and putting them in tins . |
| 28 | They were n't doing anything illegal and I was n't much of a fighter any more by then : I suppose I just caved in . |
| 29 | The FO and the Government were n't doing anything effective and , worse , they seemed proud of it . |
| 30 | He placed the course in what was , to our minds , a very reasonable perspective , saying that we were here to teach our particular specialities , but obviously there would have to be give and take , in that we would adapt ourselves to the students ' needs , and they would adapt themselves in turn to the sort of thing which we felt capable of teaching . |