Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [coord] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The results in rectal mucosa of twins with Crohn 's disease were widely scattered and affected twins did not differe significantly from normal controls . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The women were badly injured and two of them have been unable to return to work . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Two houses in Berelands Road were badly damaged and two in Hillside Avenue were demolished . |
| 13 | ‘ But they were badly hurt and frightened ! ’ |
| 14 | Social change , therefore , was unlikely to come from the top and the peasantry were badly educated and impoverished smallholders . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His eyelids drooped and his limbs no longer felt the bitter chill ; they were merely numbed and heavy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Forty years later , when viruses were better known and several people had attributed viral origins to some tumours and perhaps leukaemia , the paper was rediscovered . |
| 22 | Some heavy-duty buckets ( which were suitable for most purposes for which such buckets were normally bought or used ) collapsed when left by the buyer for several days stacked in extreme heat such that the contents reached 70° Centigrade ( 156° Fahrenheit ) . |
| 23 | I also got two fleshy herrings and a couple of smoked mackerel ( and a few tiny pieces of sole to put in the freezer as , sadly , John 's nephew and nice Irish girlfriend can not come to supper this weekend — they were IMMENSELY cheering and encouraging when here recently ) . |
| 24 | Existing prewar schemes were generally restored or consolidated . |
| 25 | The growing realization that the industry 's major asset , its licensed premises , were generally undervalued and under-utilized . |
| 26 | The lower parts of the walls were generally panelled or veneered with slabs of marble in white and colours . |
| 27 | Studies were not taxing and little emphasis was placed on the passing of examinations . |
| 28 | When Sam Phillips , founder of Sun Records and ‘ creator ’ of Elvis Presley , said , ‘ If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel , I could make a billion dollars ’ ( quoted in Hopkins 1971 : 66 ) , the twin motivations , artistic and commercial , were not separated or separable . |
| 29 | Her clothes , neatly in their cupboards and drawers were not ruined or dirty after the catastrophe . |
| 30 | After end of the strike a number of striking teachers were not reinstated and many of these were said to have left the country to seek work in Botswana . |