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 | We were all doing our own thing . |
| 4 | The chaps were only trying their best . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well , I do n't agree what they did , but they were only killing their own , their own kind , were n't they ? |
| 7 | The criminals now embraced and encouraged their women , many of whom were patiently weeping their daily tearfall . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | In the middle ages , it was discovered that many regiments were not getting their fair share . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Prior to the seventeenth century clocks in this country were made by blacksmiths , who were most reluctant to give up their trade , so clockmakers were not granted their own charter until 1631 . |
| 13 | They were not granted their later symbol of dignity , the red hat , until Innocent IV's reign . |
| 14 | The Institute of Directors said its survey showed that bosses were not lining their own pockets while holding down employees ' pay . |
| 15 | They were not doing anything dangerous . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | To me , we were not offering anything different . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She were just telling me one of her friends that sh when she was in |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Democratic party leaders were already piloting their own education bill through Congress , and Richard Gephardt , Democratic leader of the House of Representatives , gave Bush 's proposals a lukewarm response , describing them as " tinkering at the margins " . |
| 22 | Puzzle number two is that other changes in financial markets were meanwhile making it easier for such principles to apply . |
| 23 | As I have already noted , I have yet to meet children who were always getting their own way who were contented or calm . |
| 24 | The railway police and station staff were always telling them that but they had never had it from fellow buskers before . |
| 25 | An hour or so spent talking with other women about how weak , cruel , uncaring , lazy and insensitive their husbands were always made her tired . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Sir Hugh said loyalists were rapidly developing their bomb-making skills . |
| 28 | It was the last time we were ever to see him alive . |
| 29 | Will my hon. Friend assure the House that they will remain in service for many years to come , unlike the scenario if the Liberal Democrats were ever to implement their 50 per cent . |
| 30 | We were still writing our own separate poems , and one I did started : |