Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fairy lights were on and a machine was belting out smoke two frail pure white eight year old coach men stumbled out onto stage desperately trying to heave a massive structure around the stage , containing one very beautiful princess who seemed very heavy indeed . |
| 2 | We both knew only too well because of the business we were in and the sort of people we were what could happen . ’ |
| 3 | Operating expenses were down and the company has $1.1 billion in cash . |
| 4 | Whatever , once the battles were over and the cacique 's tribe had won , the man made Balboa a gift — a quantity of gold ornaments so gaudy and so valuable that squabbling broke out among the Spaniards as to who should have which piece , how much the minor colonial leaders should get , how much Balboa himself should receive . |
| 5 | The artefacts he 'd collected were everywhere and the cellar was full of old toys and Victorian prams . |
| 6 | And possibly Tina and that is off so they 'll just have to struggle on as if we were there and a lot of others were off . |
| 7 | Because when Jesus was born the the Roman soldiers were there and the kind at that time Herod ordered that all babies were killed and the Romans went out to do that did n't they ? |
| 8 | My mother and father were there and the doctor came up and said I would have to go into the Royal Marsden in Sutton to have a scan to find out whether the cancer had spread . |
| 9 | The spies were about and a Dominican in some way unknown secured a copy and sent it to the Inquisition at Rome . |
| 10 | I had to be escorted because the curfew was on and the village was heavily guarded . |
| 11 | Where that was so and the workforce was invited , or itself proposed , to set up an industrial co-operative , but understood the preservation of every job to be the prime objective , the necessary conditions for effective management were absent from the start . |
| 12 | Only the room she was in and the company she was among marked the difference . |
| 13 | My fears were to be unfounded as the nurse chatted to me and before could stop fantasizing about women in uniform the needle was in and the blood was pumping . |
| 14 | An agent said Daniels realised the position he was in and the seriousness of the his actions . |
| 15 | The sun was down and the night wind boomed in the great hollow shell of the estuary . |
| 16 | ‘ Then suddenly the car appeared and swerved around the barrier , which was down and the warning lights were flashing . |
| 17 | CHRISTMAS was over but the war was not . |
| 18 | After the quarantine was over and a course of protective injections had been given , the older orangs were gradually introduced to the forest and then allowed to live freely all day . |
| 19 | The rain was over and the night was now clear . |
| 20 | However , it turned out to be a very relaxed meeting , so much so that when the private session was over and the press were invited in to take photographs , the Prince said to the Pope , ‘ Let me introduce you to my press corps . ’ |
| 21 | Damn Miles for wanting the information suppressed until the crisis was over and the shock could be minimized . |
| 22 | In 1649 the war was over and the king executed , but that summer a surprising turn of events took place in the Fens . |
| 23 | The immediate strike threat was over and the union had demonstrated its ability to control the men ; the formal establishment of the National Maritime Board remained . |
| 24 | I realised that once the tour of the assembly area was over and the lunch began my chances of nosing around would be minimal . |
| 25 | By 1818 , when the War of Independence was over and the Republican Revolution can be said to have been won , America had rejected both the Crown and religious establishment , and had accepted a creed that granted religious toleration and the ‘ natural rights of man ’ . |
| 26 | For years , he had pitted himself against it , aware that it would mean the time for worrying about the future was over and the time for action had arrived . |
| 27 | Before the worst was over and the pound began to depreciate again , some twenty per cent of them had gone for ever , and a further ten per cent were so weakened that they too shut down in the next two years . |
| 28 | Once the meal was over and the thanksgiving intoned , Corbett whispered to Ranulf to return to their chamber while he sought an interview with the Prior . |
| 29 | The honeymoon was over and the reality of what she had taken on began to dawn . |
| 30 | The battle was over and the future she had dreamed of lay all about her in hopeless ruins . |