Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These , built as defences against the Viking invaders , are accredited to the Iron Age and were skilfully constructed to a circular plan , with a double wall enclosing a stairway and a circular paddock for cattle . |
| 2 | The children were duly legitimized in a bull of August 1201 because the pope wanted the support of Philip Augustus . |
| 3 | THE ‘ green ’ credentials of nuclear power as an alternative to ozone-depleting fossil fuels were overwhelmingly accepted after a debate in the Cambridge Union Engineering Society . |
| 4 | President Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera suffered a severe setback to his privatization programme , a central plank of his free-market economic policy , when on Dec. 13 five laws providing for the sale of public companies were overwhelmingly rejected in a national referendum . |
| 5 | But they were successfully resisted by a rejectionist front which encompassed a variety of social interests and philosophies , ranging from rural Tory gentry to urban working-class radicals . |
| 6 | Moreover , some studies suggested that the crucial floating voters were not characterised by a high degree of interest , involvement , and knowledge , but by ignorance and indifference , and they were less involved in following the election campaign than were those who were keenly attached to a party . |
| 7 | After scrambling along a series of dark and dusty corridors which were lit only by Apanage 's lantern and the feeble light of the moon fighting its way through filthy skylights , Cleo and Dauntless were eventually led into a spacious attic . |
| 8 | And recently in April , when two young girls from one of the refugee camps in San Salvador were captured , we put their names across on the programme every day until they were eventually transferred from a secret prison to the Women 's prison , We regard it as a triumph to have got them into a public prison , although they are minors , and now we are demanding their release , of course we exhaust all the legal channels as well but these days we just think of it as a formality , There have been occasions when we have presented a Habeas Corpus petition to the Supreme Court of Justice and the official concerned has simply torn the paper up in front of us and told us to get out . |
| 9 | Chips were eventually replaced by a cash allowance in 1805 . |
| 10 | Once again , there were several guest players in a New South Wales Country team which performed with great energy and enthusiasm , although the country boys were eventually subdued by a rampant Scottish pack . |
| 11 | These debates were eventually brought to a close by Williams , but by this time his fame had spread throughout the islands and had given him a mass following , especially among the lower Creole class . |
| 12 | Some people , he explained , still wrongly believed that bodies were removed from coffins before being cremated and that ashes were eventually taken from a communal pile . |
| 13 | Immigration to Britain from India and Pakistan has followed a slightly different pattern , with the real increase coming in the early 1960s , and later in response to the threat of the immigration controls that were eventually enshrined in a series of Immigration Acts , beginning with the 1962 Act ( Robinson , 1986 ) . |
| 14 | In only a few areas were there significant differences of political attitude between richer and poorer peasants , and these were wholly overshadowed by a common antipathy towards the landed nobility and determination to see their land transferred into peasant hands . |
| 15 | TWO off-duty policewomen — one dressed as a Bunny and the other as a baby — were indecently assaulted by a businessman , a court heard yesterday . |
| 16 | The elections were widely regarded as a major setback for the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT ) and for President Lee . |
| 17 | The reforms were widely seen as a reaction to public controversy over insider trading practices sparked by the emergence in January 1989 of the Pechiney affair [ see pp. 36403 ; 36706 ] . |
| 18 | Although the PNP campaigned on local issues , the elections were widely seen as a test of the party 's popularity following the devaluation and austerity measures introduced in February [ see below ] . |
| 19 | Remarks made on Dec. 6 by an APLA spokesperson were widely seen as a " declaration of war " on the white community , and APLA was also believed to have been responsible for various other incidents . |
| 20 | They were little loves to a dog , but whether they were , as billed , the cream of British dogdom , well , all owners would like to think their dogs were . |
| 21 | Aircraft , television , and laser holograms were recognizably foreshadowed in a series of drawings , ‘ Guesses at Futurity ’ , in the Pall Mall Magazine , 1894–5 . |
| 22 | An additional comment , raised during the plenary session , was that those from ethnic communities were rarely seen as a positive resource able to offer a new expertise , but that , rather , they were regarded as being doubly disadvantaged in that they were often seen as not being fluent users of English and not being part of the British culture . |
| 23 | Yet within a few months of starting the technique here two men were badly injured in a roof fall . |
| 24 | They were badly printed by a local printer , and few read them . |
| 25 | A TODDLER died and three other children were badly hurt in a house blaze . |
| 26 | In February 1981 we were badly holed in a dispute with the National Union of Mineworkers . |
| 27 | In fact , however , we now owe you money , since you were effectively acting as a salesman ! |
| 28 | Letter segmentation and recognition were effectively combined into a single operation by Tappert ( Tappert , 1982 ) who matched segments against stored letter prototypes and evaluated recognition at all possible segmentations . |
| 29 | Politically , the democratic aspirations of the popular — radical tradition were effectively contained within a Liberal movement dominated nationally by middle class and aristocratic elites , and the Conservatives mobilised many working-class Tories into their camp . |
| 30 | Thus , for instance , high interest rates , introduced when the economy was already entering a down swing ( and when inflationary forces were mostly caused by a slowdown of productivity increases ) will begin seriously to bite as the economy enters a recession next year . |