Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the whole study period the same strict policy was adopted : patients underwent endoscopy at admission as soon as they were haemodynamically stable and emergency sclerotherapy was initiated ass a primary therapy in case of active or recent variceal bleeding using either polidocanol or more recently cyanoacrylate . |
| 2 | Some , like the building on Site 3 , were little more than flag floors , presumably supporting a timber superstructure , while others had stone foundations and concrete flooring ; good examples of this type include the two buildings on Sites 5 and 6 , fronted by a common veranda . |
| 3 | The generators were individually tested , but unfortunately , during the tests of all but the Aero3gen and the Forgen , the winds were rarely more than Force 4 . |
| 4 | Food and drink were extremely important and luncheon might consist of pâté de foie gras , lobster , roast chicken and York ham with all the trimmings followed by pêche Melba , cheese and biscuits , crystallized fruits , coffee and liqueurs , washed down with fine wines and vast quantities of champagne . |
| 5 | The specific protests against soil conservation policies and other related issues ( such as the taking away of land for settlers , plantations or the removal of forests ) have tended to follow the same pattern — of violent , politically primitive , and usually short-lived protest involving marches on towns or centres of perceived political power of their oppressors and occasional guerrilla warfare ( e.g. the Mau Mau movement in Kenya , although the issues involved were much wider than soil conservation ) . |
| 6 | For later generations , however , the chances of getting work on leaving school were much lower and access to higher education and housing has also changed . |
| 7 | Recent calculations with doubled CO 2 using a low-resolution general circulation model failed to produce an Arctic ozone hole partly , it appears , because the modelled January zonal mean temperatures in the Arctic lower stratosphere with current CO 2 were much higher than climatology . |
| 8 | However , because some aspects of United Kingdom law were somewhat vague and ill-defined ( for example , the meaning of fair-dealing ) it was decided to tighten up some of the exceptions to copyright infringement , the necessary changes to the 1988 Act being made by the Copyright ( Computer Programs ) Regulations 1992 . |
| 9 | Even before IRCA , the ties between Mexican workers and the American labour market were so strong that migration was bound to increase . |
| 10 | Sue showed me those pictures you sent , but they were so small and faraway and you were all wearing those funny oil-rig hats , I could n't really see you . |
| 11 | And there was this awful woman , Mrs so and so , that was always telling women what to do and , she she was n't very popular because some of the things that she suggested that women did to make do and mend were so tedious and time consuming . |
| 12 | Her speeches were so dull and rambling that her nervous advisers tried to stop newsmen from recording them . |
| 13 | They were so successful that publication for retail sales began in 1934 . |
| 14 | No doubt Lenin was mistaken in assuming that administrative functions ( control and accounting ) were so simple and routine that they could be accomplished without special professional training and experience . |
| 15 | Her eyes were so wide-set and widely-opened that they consumed half her face in a dazzling pool of greenish-blue radiance . |
| 16 | They were so unhappy that life lost its perspective for them . ’ |
| 17 | There was something in Mrs Maugham 's solid air of conscious rectitude that threw a faint shadow of guilt over everyone who approached her , though as often as not people did not know why they were guilty : her disapprovals were so vast and public , her approvals so private and ill-chartered that all immediately cast themselves as goats in the discrimination of her gaze . |
| 18 | ‘ You did n't look worried — you were so calm and kind to her . |
| 19 | Fashions change , and the hulk-like diesels that were so unwelcome as steam replacements twenty-five years previously were given a massive send-off from the new generation of enthusiasts . |
| 20 | Conditions were so bad that emergency crews were told it was too dangerous to try and restore power before daybreak . |
| 21 | In the case of plants , however , the means of dispersal were so prolific that theorizing became impossibly vague . |
| 22 | Students studying on specialist IT programmes were less likely than conversion students to be in employment or to be seeking work ( Table 4.3 ) . |
| 23 | The most significant finding of these reports was of the over-representation of black youths on mode B schemes — or on schemes that were less likely than mode A schemes to lead to a job . |
| 24 | The rapid acceleration of house prices during the late 1980s ( which received added impetus from the rush by house buyers to beat the ending of multiple mortgage tax relief in August 1988 ) meant that highly geared first-time buyers were especially vulnerable when interest rates began rising during 1988 , and their exposure increased when house prices began falling at the end of 1989 . |
| 25 | The next day , it seemed , we were suddenly grown-up and grim-faced , and the world had a terribly grey shadow over it and Paris was cold . |
| 26 | The returns from farming were generally poor and land prices were below what they were a few years ago . |
| 27 | Several researchers joined the group , masquerading as believers , and were thus present when midnight came and went without the prophecy being fulfilled . |
| 28 | All our buddies that worked for us for 50 years were just living and drinking and eating like fucking Rome … it was just hell and it had to stop . ’ |
| 29 | In the early seventies the first indications were already apparent that inflation might increase sharply , although we had not yet reached such runaway rates as 30 per cent . |
| 30 | What modules of data were already available as building blocks for computer programs without a major investment in new software ? 2 . |