Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were the Lucas boys with their model railway , there were a couple of evacuees with their mothers , there was a German Jewess refugee with her adopted child , there was a friend who lived with them and helped at a school and her children were in and out a lot . |
| 2 | Quakers were down and out a minute later when Mark McGhee crossed from the right for Maskell to complete his hat-trick . |
| 3 | Darlington were down and out a minute later when Mark McGhee crossed from the right for Maskell to complete his hat trick . |
| 4 | While it is true that lay people were involved as well as bishops , they were hardly as yet the necessary representatives of the separate estates which came later to be associated with a wider view of government and representation . |
| 5 | I knew right then you were the one that I was caught up in physical objection but to my satisfaction baby you were more than just a phase . |
| 6 | The dogs were up and down a lot . |
| 7 | To understand why Jews should be bothered by Catholics praying at this site it is necessary to go back to the role played by the Catholic Church in fomenting antisemitism , the passivity of the Pope during the war while the exterminations were underway and even the suspicions caused by the reception of Austrian President Kurt Waldheim , with his dubious war record , by the present Pope , John Paul II ( from Poland ) . |
| 8 | Of those who smoked or drank , patients with CLO had a smoking history of a median 15 pack years ( range 2–60 pack years ) , which was less than both the severe oesophagitis ( median 45.5 , range 5–150 pack years ) ( p<0.01 ) , and adenocarcinoma groups ( median 55.25 , range 4–200 pack years ) ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 9 | Of those who smoked , patients with CLO had a smoking history of 15 median pack years ( range 2–60 pack years ) which was less than both the severe oesophagitis ( median 45.5 , range 5–150 pack years ; p<0.001 ) and adenocarcinoma groups ( median 55.25 , range 4–200 pack years ) ( p<0.001 ) ( Fig 2 ) . |
| 10 | Citizenship was obviously and visually a life , your whole life , with common dangers , common responsibilities , common enjoyments , and common ambitions … |
| 11 | As has been seen above the Council was organically and functionally the creation of the member States with no separate existence outside their control . |
| 12 | She left every day at two o'clock , after the morning rush was over and once the last of the hot midday meals had been served . |
| 13 | It seems , on looking back , one day I was outside and then the next day I was in , as if I 'd had nothing to do with it : I had been pushed or drawn or whatever you like . |
| 14 | Within marriage , in Gorer 's group , the most frequent rate of intercourse — the number of times within a given period in which intercourse generally took place — was once or twice a week , in about a third of the marriages concerned . |
| 15 | To my mind , Niki was technically and mechanically the better driver ; he was willing to make the absolute best of even the most minimal chance . |
| 16 | The right of refugee return remained firmly part of the rhetoric but it was less clear whether it was still as firmly a part of policy . |
| 17 | By this stage , Des was more than just a mascot . |
| 18 | And this was more than just a professorship . |
| 19 | It was director Joseph L Mankiewicz who had given Brando the chance to prove he was more than just a mumbling slob by casting him as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar . |
| 20 | ‘ It was more than just a sexual attraction between us . |
| 21 | So test-tube fusion was more than just a media event with dollars on the line for the University of Utah , there were many private agendas riding along with it . |
| 22 | ‘ Falling in love ’ , therefore , was more than just a trivial pastime but a serious business . |
| 23 | The rest of us can make do with Profile 's fine new compilation ‘ Avanti ! ’ , 11 tracks to prove that Italian dance was more than just a passing fad . |
| 24 | It was my own experiences with herbal treatments , due to being ill over the past few years , that convinced me that there was more than just a placebo effect at work . |
| 25 | But nervousness and vacillation over direct state intervention was more than just a problem of administration . |
| 26 | There was more than just a matter of fifty years separating her life from that of Johnny Latimer . |
| 27 | Everything here was different and therefore better : the stiff-backed brass taps , the cut of the banister , the genuine oil paintings ( we had a genuine oil painting too , but not as genuine as that ) , the library which somehow was more than just a roomful of books , the furniture old enough to have woodworm in it , and the casual acceptance of inherited things . |
| 28 | Luke 's no fool ; he could see that so far as I was concerned Elise was more than just a client . |
| 29 | In de Gaulle 's mind , the empire was more than just a source of potential recruits . |
| 30 | He was more than just a hypochondriac . |