Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing was confirmed until recently , and even these gigs we 've just done in South America were only a testing ground to see how Brian would feel being the lead singer and mainman in general . |
| 2 | That was 1870 ; yet in 1881 Frances Mary Buss [ Miss Buss and Miss Beale/Cupid 's darts do not feel/How different from us/are Miss Beale and Miss Buss ] could say ‘ There is now no such thing as a ‘ woman 's education question ’ , ’ even if that were only a half truth . |
| 3 | And these were only the London evenings . |
| 4 | Many of these features of the modern world were only the surface manifestations of the much greater structural changes begun in early industrialism and accelerated since the Second World War . |
| 5 | In those days they were basically a mime company , though their grotesque appearance , and their ability to wring wild laughter from the depiction of desperate , squalid lives , marked them out as something special . |
| 6 | ‘ The Protons were basically a punk rock band , ’ Lenny explains , as the ‘ Weed luxuriate in the compact and bijou confines of the third support band 's dressing facilities at the London Astoria , ‘ and these two guys were doing a '60s R&B thing . |
| 7 | Mr Kirkland said : ‘ If this were so the Safety Authority would not let us go ahead and build the tunnel . |
| 8 | The council later abandoned its plans to widen the highway and the reversion passed to the first defendants , who were not a highway authority . |
| 9 | A well orchestrated campaign has been going on in the British press for the last two or three weeks , led by a PR firm engaged by the dealer Dr David Nasser Khalili himself , to persuade the British public that it would be a crying shame if there were not a Nasser Khalili museum in the centre of London . |
| 10 | Eisenhower claimed in 1955 that the tests were not a health hazard . |
| 11 | The train from Sao Paulo to the Bolivian border had been clean and comfortable , and the town of Coromba on the Pantanal made you regret you were not a train robber on the run in search of a safe haven . |
| 12 | The economics , ethics and effects of discounting were not the talking point they had been in 1991 . |
| 13 | These were not the driver ants of my childhood nightmares , however similar they might be , but remote , New World cousins . |
| 14 | The judge said he accepted that the pair were not the ring leaders . |
| 15 | ‘ I was the first one to experience this sort of pressure , while players like Ian Wright and Keith Curle can go for extraordinary amounts but they escaped because they were not the record signings . |
| 16 | Hubble 's discovery that the universe was expanding , and the realization of the insignificance of our own planet in the vastness of the universe , were just the starting point . |
| 17 | ‘ You were always a cigar man , were n't you Barney ? |
| 18 | But the grandest occasions were always the Hunt Balls . |
| 19 | The first ocean-going ship with a steam engine — Henry Bell 's Comet — was launched from Port Glasgow in 1812 , and the best known of the Clyde 's ships were always the ocean liners , though the yards built merchant ships , warships for the Royal Navy and many other types of vessel . |
| 20 | ‘ You were once a university lecturer ? |
| 21 | The janissaries , who were once the elite corps of the sultan 's army , had degenerated by the end of the eighteenth century into an unruly and lawless rabble , who were at best an embarrassment and at worst a threat to their rulers . |
| 22 | All around the oval churchyard can be found the sunken tracks that were once the village streets and paths and raised above them are the grassy mounds that cover the foundations of houses and cottages long since gone . |
| 23 | The visitors were herded into two large halls , which were once the hotel ballroom and dining room . |
| 24 | Certainly nothing in the recent history , and very probably nothing in the ancient history , of what were once the prerogative writs , has been seen to match this stream of applications . |
| 25 | Well th the profits of the sale fixed assets that the shares and would be if there were any the sale profits on the sale of any other pieces of land at Lakeside or indeed elsewhere in the group and we sold a site not in ninety two , it was ninety one at Frinton I think you 'll remember that so small profits . |
| 26 | There were still no Sunday meetings . |
| 27 | Er you were still a head shunter for I think about five years after after |
| 28 | Wendt , a noted hardcore fan way back in the days when Nirvana were still a mod band , has been presenting the acts on Saturday Night Live for some years . |
| 29 | If we were still an indie band I do n't think Peter would be as interested . |
| 30 | But they were still the scholarship girls , objects of envy because they were not ordinary , objects of pity because they were poor , their accomplishments scarcely the point . |