Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many in the US were keenly awaiting the outcome : Mr Baker had made several statements expressing Washington 's desire for Israel to reach an agreement with the Palestinians on elections . |
| 2 | This hints at changes which were eventually to destroy the balance of power itself ( the two most important were industrialization and imperialism ) , though their bearing on international affairs was not yet discerned in 1880 . |
| 3 | Gwyneth Dunwoody stated that we were secretly dismantling the health service and Roy Hattersley muttered about contracting out old people like refuse collection . |
| 4 | A calm relaxing feeling flows throughout the body as though lead weights were slowly pulling the body down into the chair , heavier and heavier , more and more calm at every moment . |
| 5 | Perhaps these inhabitants of the underworld were slowly losing the struggle . |
| 6 | Megaw LJ agreed with Denning MR but Browne LJ dissented : he said that the majority were effectively remaking the contract which was something which the court was not entitled to do . |
| 7 | Last I saw , a couple of hand-in-hand schoolkids had fished them out and were avidly reading the instruction leaflet . |
| 8 | You have to remember a nation where new immigrants were constantly adjusting the culture , the language , the sounds and smells on the street , and where new ideas — like socialism , like anarchism or Bolshevism — were associated with literal newcomers . |
| 9 | ‘ We were literally giving the stuff away just to get people to use it , ’ said Mr Anderson . |
| 10 | But , nevertheless , that acceptance is rendered of no consequence by the claim that the theories were merely detailing the process of creation as already produced by the orthodox ‘ god ’ or ‘ gods ’ of antiquity . |
| 11 | Arthur Mailey , whose skill and amiable manner attracted F–S to cricket , was later to write that by F–S 's standards , other spin bowlers were merely allowing the ball to ‘ slip from their fingers ’ . |
| 12 | Crowe and Imran were merely re-inventing the wheel . |
| 13 | For several hours we would be transported via the newsreel to the exotic East , where American soldiers were valiantly fighting the red , or was it yellow peril , and then to the Wild West , where Hoot Gibson or Eddy Dean would be showing cattle rustlers or unfriendly Indians ‘ what America stood for ’ . |
| 14 | The Kop were all doing the moslem arm-worship thing chanting ‘ Newsome-Newsome ’ and even waving Newsome 's picture in the Kop ( he was this week 's pinup ! ) |
| 15 | The elections were apparently to decide the membership of 26 district councils , but in fact they were more like a refererendum , with multiple choices , on the province 's future . |
| 16 | Somebody rang up the first programme to complain about people who were apparently telephoning the station and talking on air . |
| 17 | The Nuremberg courts rejected the plea of the defendants that they were only obeying the community standards of their day , since the gravity of their crimes had to be weighed against the highest moral standards of humanity , not the customs of the age or the community . |
| 18 | But because such men were materialists and therefore underestimated the power of spiritual and moral values ( despite the Soviet invention of the doctrine of ‘ dialectical materialism ’ ) , they failed to see that they were only perpetuating the problem of modernity in another form . |
| 19 | The majority of the works in the show are so new that some were only delivered the day before the exhibition started . |
| 20 | Those who built up a right to a state pension by virtue of their contributions were only awarded the pension following formal retirement from employment . |
| 21 | But erm , and you could always refer to it in your dialogue with them if you had a claim to make , er that they were only paying the district rate . |
| 22 | They were both speaking in the slightly lowered tone that meant they did not want to be overheard , and were only having the discussion at all because they believed Belinda to be safely out of earshot . |
| 23 | Peter Spencer of stockbroker Shearson Lehman said the prospects for a pick-up were so improved the Government should be careful on interest rates . |
| 24 | They were obviously nearing the airport ; signs announcing the different terminals were flashing by . |
| 25 | It later transpired that the Russians knew perfectly well what had happened , but were obviously enjoying the confusion their seemingly naive questions were provoking . |
| 26 | They were obviously telling the truth about themselves . |
| 27 | None of the Labour leaders felt that they should disobey the ruling of Conference that they should return to opposition : and some of them , most notably Morrison , were obviously relishing the prospect of the return to party politics . |
| 28 | ‘ And the ladies were peacefully enjoying the view across the lake . ’ |
| 29 | Well you should of told him you were fucking burning the place ! |
| 30 | At home we were soon given the answer to a question which had been puzzling us : Who had saved us ? |