Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was bounded and threatened to south and east by the forces of Islam , which were eventually to submerge the ancient eastern Christian Empire with its capital in Constantinople . |
| 2 | A major pattern of disagreement centres on the distribution of what were loosely termed the descriptive and actional frames of the story . |
| 3 | The advent of Stanier , and his successors locomotives designs , with their outside motion and labour saving examples were slowly replacing the older LNW engines along the coast . |
| 4 | It was still predominantly a rural District and although the numbers of manual workers were slowly declining the full impact of mechanisation in agriculture , workshop and factory lay some years ahead . |
| 5 | Similarly , it seems only yesterday that we romantics were vigorously defending the vast technological resources invested in space research and travel . |
| 6 | No in actual fact we were only saying the other day that , you know , sugar Viv ? |
| 7 | ‘ I was a swine to my parents for years , until I realised they were only doing the best and — the shock of it ! — that they were human too ! ’ |
| 8 | It was assumed that parishes , very largely the agricultural villages of the southern and eastern cereal regions , who were using Speenhamland-like systems of poor relief , had placed themselves on a vicious spiral of soaring poor rates and were progressively increasing the very poverty they sought to relieve . |
| 9 | Not many redwoods , or sequoias , exceeded 3000 years but they were generally considered the oldest living matter until the development of the Swedish increment borer enabled dendrologists ( people who study the natural history of trees ) to age a tree without felling it . |
| 10 | From time to time I read about the views of the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras , ( Mr. Dobson ) but I was also interested to read over my cornflakes on Saturday morning the Labour party briefing to the effect that we were not to take the hon. Gentleman too seriously . |
| 11 | We were not to see the famous ‘ stoop ’ dive on to prey after all . |
| 12 | Adrian Bourne : ‘ We were not getting the best range of stock into Dillons ’ |
| 13 | To be sure they were not removing the very effect they were looking for , the researchers divided the children into groups on the basis of their lead levels . |
| 14 | By 1900 it must have been increasingly obvious that the policies of Frederick and Bismarck were not producing the desired effect . |
| 15 | ‘ I always had the impression ’ , said one , ‘ that we were not seeing the best of Harold Wilson in that period . |
| 16 | Indeed it would be absurd if the following two cases were not treated the same : ( 1 ) A has two deposits each of £10,000 , and he assigns one deposit to B and the other to C ; and ( 2 ) A has one deposit of £20,000 , and he assigns one-half to B and the other half to C. |
| 17 | Sefton 's consumer protection chief Tim Cox said : ‘ A recent survey showed that of 132 retailers visited , 12 per cent were not displaying the statutory sign . |
| 18 | He thought that though our advertising and promotion were good we were not publicising the true nature of the event , i.e. Salford graduates returning to tell of their experiences . |
| 19 | Central police were not naming the dead man last night . |
| 20 | This is certainly true of the Hundred Years War , and it is as well to remember that at Crécy , Poitiers , and Agincourt , although the English emerged as victors , on each occasion they were not entering the French kingdom to attempt its conquest , but were actually leaving it , heading for the coast in search of transport to take them back to England , the main aim of the expedition already fulfilled . |
| 21 | ‘ . When the signatories said that he or she would be prepared to enter into a deed to formalise the situation , they were not postponing the legal effect of the document or reserving a final view but merely saying that they would be willing to do so if required , ie record in a more formal way the transactions which had already been made . |
| 22 | However , since the anticodon point mutations used in these cases were not affecting the three-dimensional structure of the tRNA-molecule nothing could then be said if the tRNA conformation was important to the recognition by the anticodon modifying enzymes . |
| 23 | BEFORE the Oakland Athletics began their American League Championship series against the Toronto Blue Jays it was said that the team had a crucial flaw : when their celebrated home-run hitters were not peppering the upper decks , the A 's supposedly found it tough to manufacture runs base by base with base hits , steals and sacrifice flies . |
| 24 | The Married Women 's Property Acts of the 1870s and 1880s permitted women to control their own property , although married women were not given the same capacity as single women to acquire , hold and dispose of property until 1935 . |
| 25 | He added that the churches were not making the best use of the mass media — print , radio , video and television . |
| 26 | While they acknowledged severe staff shortages , increasing workloads and huge backlogs of work in the offices , they thought that the practice of sporadic strikes by staff were not having the desired effect on management , but were penalising the unemployed . |
| 27 | One reason for this is probably that subjects who were not told the overall theme of the passage until the end were able to draw on their knowledge of similar stories which they had heard before . |
| 28 | If they were not told the embarrassing source of these words — and perhaps even if they were — most Asians would give a vigorous nod of approval to the sentiments expressed by Neville Chamberlain when Germany annexed the Sudetenland in 1938 : ‘ How horrible , fantastic , incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing . ’ |
| 29 | They are bitter that when Dupont took over the workers were not told the true situation . |
| 30 | Peter Yeo , who had been watching his partners , realized that he and Tim were not carrying the other two and decided to make another effort . |