Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Mr Kirkland said : ‘ If this were so the Safety Authority would not let us go ahead and build the tunnel . |
| 6 | The council later abandoned its plans to widen the highway and the reversion passed to the first defendants , who were not a highway authority . |
| 7 | Eisenhower claimed in 1955 that the tests were not a health hazard . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The economics , ethics and effects of discounting were not the talking point they had been in 1991 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ You were always a cigar man , were n't you Barney ? |
| 12 | ‘ You were once a university lecturer ? |
| 13 | The visitors were herded into two large halls , which were once the hotel ballroom and dining room . |
| 14 | Er you were still a head shunter for I think about five years after after |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If we were still an indie band I do n't think Peter would be as interested . |
| 17 | They were clearly a family treasure . |
| 18 | , William ( 1903–1971 ) , bookmaker , was born in Birmingham 16 July 1903 , the second son and fourth of the eleven children ( there were also a twin son and daughter who died at birth ) of William Hill , journeyman coach-painter , and his wife Lavinia Knight , the daughter of a farmer , who also kept an inn on the border of Warwickshire and Leicestershire . |
| 19 | Among the authors were also the Deputy Interior and Defence Ministers , Gen. Gromov and Varennikov , leading some commentators to see in it the veiled threat of a military coup . |
| 20 | The races were now a holiday occasion covering several days and very well attended . |
| 21 | The trouble was , all these methods were now the staple diet of Radio 4 plays . |
| 22 | As far as the Palestinian population was concerned , gas masks had not been distributed , as they were to all Israeli citizens , to Jewish settlers in the occupied territories and to all arriving immigrants ; moreover , there were reportedly no air raid sirens in the occupied territories except in the Jewish settlements there . |
| 23 | There were n't no draught go through , you see . |
| 24 | the Longbridge train , were n't a Longbridge train but |
| 25 | If you were n't a church guy . |
| 26 | ‘ I knew you were n't the composing machine they say you are . ’ |
| 27 | My great-grandmother 's family were here the opening week . ’ |
| 28 | To test whether each of the participants ' before and after scores were simply a fluke occurrence , as distinct from a genuine increase in alcohol knowledge , a Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Test was undertaken using SPSS and the result proved statistically significant , that is , Z= - 10. 1839 , 2-tailed , P=0.0000 . |
| 29 | Yes , they were quite an elite band of brothers , but it was possible to break into the circle , and eventually by a stroke of luck and a bit of help from one of Vincent 's crew who took pity on me , I managed to get a short spell of leave relief on HMRC Vincent . |
| 30 | The results for this question were almost a mirror image of those for the preceding question , with the negative response to the proposition from the majority of sole practitioners easily cancelling out the positive answer given by the bulk of the remaining respondents . |