Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | By 1914 , France and Germany were already producing a fair number of motor-cars . |
| 32 | Women who were already paying a reduced rate contribution were however allowed to continue doing so . |
| 33 | ‘ We were able to draw on our experience in academic bookselling , and demonstrate to the Hallam that we were already running a successful academic bookshop in Sheffield . |
| 34 | Business began to boom , but the MS & L were already planning a new terminus over the Wicker arches and on 15th September 1851 , Victoria opened its doors . |
| 35 | The briefs and opinions in the case were immediately circulated by the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference to the experts who were shortly to attend a Special Commission of the Conference to review the workings of the Convention , and this gave the case a prominence ( and in some quarters a notoriety ) which it might otherwise have escaped . |
| 36 | Those who died while protecting the Lithuanian parliament from Soviet tanks and the ‘ black beret ’ crack troops were hardly imagining a great role for Lithuania in world councils : they just wanted their country to run its own affairs without foreign domination , which they have now achieved . |
| 37 | Phenomena such as suggestion , attitude , state of mind etc were promptly given a concrete target on which they could operate . |
| 38 | We were always assigned a prescribed pattern to follow after take-off . |
| 39 | The British Council abroad is bent on getting everything connected with British education and culture under its tyrannical control , and outsiders like myself who found their own positions without passing through the old-boy network and the rigid screening system of the Council were always given a hard time . |
| 40 | Lawyers representing the nuns from the Our Lady of the Passion Monastery , Daventry , Northamptonshire , were yesterday granted a judicial review of the Ministry of Agriculture order to slaughter the chickens . |
| 41 | THE Prime Minister and the caterer , Clare Latimer , were yesterday given a public apology and undisclosed damages in the first round of their libel claims over allegations of an affair between them . |
| 42 | FORENSIC experts were yesterday examining a decomposed forearm found wrapped in bandages and dumped in a back garden . |
| 43 | Other locals were yesterday keeping a low profile , preserving the privacy requested by the couple . |
| 44 | The royal authority was being challenged not only by princes but by a growing menace of another kind , the increasing number of freelance soldiers , or routiers , who were gradually becoming a characteristic force in French society , reflecting the faltering grip of lawfully-established authority . |
| 45 | George and John , who started with a modern fun pub , discovered they were forever seeking a traditional pub for a good pint on their days off , so they decided to start their own . |
| 46 | The new dietary proved to be an improvement although the youngest children were still wasting a great deal of the milk porridge , and alternation of a diet with tea and bread-and-butter was advised , similar to that given to children over the age of nine . |
| 47 | But the chance survival of a record of a miracle on Easter Day not long before Lanfranc 's arrival shows that the monks were still giving a dramatic representation of the three women at the tomb searching for the risen Lord as laid down in the Regularis Concordia . |
| 48 | A few miles further on they left the motorway , although they were still following a main road . |
| 49 | If Great Britain were still to play a significant role in military operations in Europe , massed levies would be needed . |
| 50 | Even after the Renaissance and the rebirth of learning had reached these shores ears were still having a rough ride . |
| 51 | Gordon Middleton and Alan Hill were both given a conditional discharge . |
| 52 | This was n't even by the rusty old tramp which brought stores to Danu once a month , but on a smaller wooden vessel , captained by a cut-throat old Bugi from Makassar , whose bilge pumps were perpetually squirting a drooping arc of water from the sides . |
| 53 | Public sector workers were also facing a 1.5 per cent pay rise imposed by central government . |
| 54 | At that time we were also building a similar data base on another CAD system , which involved re-writing all software to suit . |
| 55 | The respondents were also asked a supplementary question designed to elicit their rationalisations for their decisions . |
| 56 | People were also taking a benevolent interest in Bob . |
| 57 | Morgan shares were also given a helping hand by the AMP offer . |
| 58 | All hospital patients had been given a diagnosis of primary depression uncomplicated by any underlying condition such as alcoholism , but were also given a full clinical interview ( PSE ) by the research psychiatrist . |
| 59 | All the women were also given a full social interview about their family , employment , housing , financial circumstances , crises , marital relationship , events and difficulties of the previous twelve months . |
| 60 | Colchester were also given a tough match by Woodford . |