Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were rather taken aback when they realised they would be learning about the way the planning system operates ! |
| 2 | Privacy was not a word in our vocabulary , and postcards and diaries were mercilessly read aloud as we trekked through the jungle of North Borneo . |
| 3 | Socially , they were rarely seen together except at John Lehmann 's . |
| 4 | Above : In 1901 regulations added a pair of shoulder straps to the white undress coat , and insignia of branch , unit and rank were thenceforward displayed exactly as on the khaki field blouse ; this coat bears the insignia of a captain of the 23rd Infantry . |
| 5 | We were we were only smiling then because Watsons also trains us |
| 6 | And the people in front were obviously fleeing rather than decoying : Murray 's men . |
| 7 | Wagenaar ( 1986 ) also found that memories rated as unpleasant at the time were less well recalled than pleasant ones ( for durations of up to two years ) , despite this , events with higher emotional involvement ratings ( ‘ moderate ’ to ‘ extreme ’ ) were generally recalled better than those with lower ratings ( ‘ nothing ’ or ‘ little ’ ) at all retention intervals studied , though again this was a relatively small effect , r(1603)=0.07 . |
| 8 | Relations were not disturbed even when the Khomeini government arrested Tudeh leaders and dissolved their movement in 1983 . |
| 9 | Conway Mill is a case in point , where a number of local businesses were not assisted financially because they located there and were eventually forced out . |
| 10 | Steps were taken to ensure that the nodes were not perturbed more than once , but no checks were made to determine whether the perturbation process caused sliver polygons to be created . |
| 11 | Ministries and departments were not organized so as to devise ‘ communications policy ’ that could encompass information technology and the mass media . |
| 12 | At the worst , the entries for 1017 – 22 were not compiled later than the 1040s , when C becomes a contemporary chronicle . |
| 13 | The commissioners were given detailed orders on the best way to proceed : they were not to summon more than twelve men at once and were to speak to each man alone , reminding him of the King 's work on his behalf . |
| 14 | Plasma concentrations of both essential fatty acids , linoleic ( C18:2n6 ) , and α-linolenic ( C18:3n3 ) , however , were not decreased even when disease was severe . |
| 15 | It also shows that , when Russian enterprises reacted to the reforms by jacking up prices and withholding output , they were not doing so because they could not adapt to the bewildering change around them ; they were reacting to the incentives they faced , which said that goods were stores of value while money was not . |
| 16 | Much was made of the fact that Ince , Sharpe , and Hughes were not playing even though scum have this fabulously strong squad . |
| 17 | Least noticeably but perhaps most dangerously , the Palestinians living inside the 1949 Armistice Line , barely 11 per cent of the Israeli population at the time , were nevertheless growing faster than the Jewish community and were expected to exceed 20 per cent by the end of the century . |
| 18 | No one was placed except the nine of us who were sitting at Robin 's table , and we were just asked quietly when we went in ‘ to go to the table with the birthday cake on it ’ . |
| 19 | They were already fulfilled long before you ever met me ! ’ |
| 20 | These air-holes were usually kept open when the stove was burning , because too much smoke in a small , airless hut could kill the shepherd . |
| 21 | Most grammar schools were single sex ; mixed schools were usually provided only where the sparseness of the population made it impracticable to provide separate schools for boys and girls . |
| 22 | But you were always allowed home when the children were not at school . |
| 23 | They stayed first in the hotel and were still living there when John was born . |
| 24 | ‘ And you were still sitting here when the eunuch came ? ’ 'l was , ’ said the steersman . |
| 25 | They were still sitting together when Hotspur came from the prince 's apartments . |
| 26 | About 90 per cent of the ravers were still dancing enthusiastically when closedown finally came . |
| 27 | Women were interrupted less as bosses than as subordinates , but overall they were still interrupted more than men . |
| 28 | Some drivers were still trapped more than two hours after the crash . |
| 29 | Although the Magharians were arrested , al-Kassar and Haser had been under protective surveillance the whole time and were both spirited away before the trap closed . |
| 30 | Newsletters were circulated giving details of campaigns , and some of these , such as those sent by Bartholomew Burghersh to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1346 , were carefully phrased so as to generate public support for the invasion of Normandy . |