Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And none of them had the arranged marriages which were normal just one generation earlier . |
| 2 | Er further to what John said about the er , Young Inventor , we were fortunate enough last year to have er our competitor , or we had a , we held a competition locally |
| 3 | His own ideals were ecclesiastical rather then Roman . |
| 4 | The Andes of Peru , for example , provided animals like the llama and alpaca which were domesticated approximately 7 kyr BP , and in the Tehuacán Valley of Mexico the first permanent agricultural systems of the Americas were developed c. 8 or 9 kyr BP . |
| 5 | Walpole got full environmental approval , but it already has a state prison , and local residents were successful twice last year in lobbying the legislature to reject bills that would have made the land available for the harbour clean-up . |
| 6 | But thoughts of the administrative foul-up were far away last month when Mr Wright handed over Darlington 's peace offering and also gave sets of Kwik Cricket to schoolchildren at two Bridgetown primary schools . |
| 7 | were cheap then eighteen pound were n't it ? |
| 8 | I was strong enough next morning to go and look out of the front window . |
| 9 | Coventry manager Bobby Gould , who moved in after Quinn was transfer-listed earlier this week , would have to pay about Pounds 200,000 to land him . |
| 10 | Leavis was a major critic and a very influential educator , who was convinced both that criticism was essentially evaluative and that it was at the heart of English studies . |
| 11 | I myself was lucky enough last week to see a fine sample of the Lesser Twayblade and another of the Small White Orchid , rare occurrences as far south as this and in these times . |
| 12 | The response was terrific and it was obvious that much thought had gone into your replies . |
| 13 | It was unfortunate then that Virgin 's case should be complicated by , and ultimately hinge upon , another , far less public , contractual dispute . |
| 14 | Sadly , Marks did not last very long and he was the first of the Commanding Officers of the four founder squadrons to he lost in battle ; this was flat only great loss to the squadron , hut certainly to the Pathfinders . |
| 15 | Terry Petherick was well over six foot . |
| 16 | Well Nat woke up at , half past one , she was awake then all night she kept coming in |
| 17 | I was angry enough that night to rape you , but I was also very deeply in love , and I wanted more than anything else to make love to you . |
| 18 | When we were in our twenties , we thought that life was full enough just thinking about ourselves in those long periods of freedom that the twenties offered , without having to fill them up with anything else . |