Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , when , finally , she did emerge from her curtain cubicle to face the other girls , they took it very well , for they could afford to be charitable , and they were secretly glad that Clara 's style was cramped , for without some handicap she would have been a more serious threat . |
| 2 | The Girls were most impressed when Mary bought a Daimler and employed a chauffeur so they in turn bought a car between them and shared the running costs . |
| 3 | Nevertheless the results were highly controversial and Sue Elliott , the official in charge of children 's television at Britain 's Independent Television Commission watchdog , says : ‘ Extensive research on both sides of the Atlantic has not established a clear link between watching violent television and violent behaviour . ’ |
| 4 | Nicky 's parents were much older than Uncle Jim and Aunt Louise . |
| 5 | Its high pitched screams for mercy were literally unbearable and Klift turned away , sickened . |
| 6 | Not all of the émigrés from Eastern Europe were so fortunate as Goma and Tanase , who lived with the constant threat of assassination at least until Christmas 1989 . |
| 7 | Elsie and Edith Port were so alike that Jennie dosed the wrong one with her cure for all ailments — castor oil . |
| 8 | Even in summer , when the grounds and gardens were so warm that Frankie could lie stark naked in the long grass , the house was dark and uncomfortably cold , especially on the big stairs . |
| 9 | The two metal coffee jugs were so hot that Cormack dropped them with a yelp . |
| 10 | His uniform was immaculate , but paraded no medals , and the creases on his trousers were so sharp that Charlie wondered if they had ever been worn before . |
| 11 | •The letters and telephone calls were so numerous that Curtis Strange feels he owes golf fans an apology for an outburst of profanity , inadvertently picked up by a television microphone during an American event this summer . |
| 12 | A lot of them , of course , were so secret that Mr Marr could n't even show them to me . |
| 13 | The results of the pilot programme ( based on the ability of the mothers to recall what they had been taught two weeks previously ) were so promising that BRAC launched a programme to teach the method of preparing LGS to every household in the country over a period of about ten years . |
| 14 | The song and their laughter were so infectious that Corbett joined in . |
| 15 | For other members of the department , some of whom were less aware than Joanne of what they were trying to achieve via the new approach , this was even more the case . |
| 16 | Perhaps because they were suddenly aware that Madrid could fall to the rebels at any moment , or perhaps because they felt more confident with a government which now included representatives of all the Popular Front forces and the anarchists , the Republican troops rallied at that point and managed to slow down the Army of Africa 's advance on the capital . |
| 17 | Though the authorities do not seem to have been aware of the scale and significance of capital flows within the sterling area , they were aware that the exchange controls in that area were not all that London hoped . |
| 18 | Initially , the doctors were not sure whether Dawn had suffered brain damage , so they arranged for Dawn to be transferred , still on the life-support machine , to a nearby hospital which could perform a CAT scan . |
| 19 | Food shortages were not uncommon and Innocent himself provided communal restaurants and founded hospitals . |
| 20 | LONG before England came such a cropper at Lansdowne Road , there were many besides the Scots among the British rugby fraternity who were already positive that Gavin Hastings would be revealed this morning as the Lions ' captain for the forthcoming tour of New Zealand . |
| 21 | The Poles , through Commissioner General Marian Chodacki , said that what went on to their stamps was their business , and they were genuinely mystified that Danzigers whose ancestors had risen up against the Teutonic Knights should feel offended by stamps that celebrated their victory . |
| 22 | McStay and Grant had got the better of Hamilton and McGinlay while Slater and Collins were more effective than Lennon and Wright on the flanks . |
| 23 | He was not the clear favourite for the Oval Office , for there were other men whose achievements were more palpable than George Crowninshield 's , but he looked good , sounded better and no journalist had ever discovered him with his fingers in the till or his legs in the wrong bed . |
| 24 | Boyden and Handy were more successful than Deland in spreading the idea of headhunting among the higher reaches of corporate America ; but it was never easy to convince clients of the independent and unique value of their work . |
| 25 | The results of this were more encouraging than Walker and Amsler 's . |
| 26 | A few of the men had taken a rare day off from the quarries and the recognitions were more generous than Harrison had anticipated . |
| 27 | Their swarthy features were more Mediterranean than East European . |
| 28 | When United held the upper hand , which was for most of the first half , they were more dominant than Aberdeen were after the interval . |
| 29 | With television — unless one lived near a frontier — there was no choice ; with radio , there was choice , nationwide : the three ‘ peripheral ’ radio stations , Europe 1 , RTL , RMC were more popular than ORTF radio stations . |
| 30 | Many marriages were more satisfactory than Matilda 's alliance with the count of Anjou . |