Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally there were protests from some ILEA teachers of languages , history , geography , home economics and physical education that their subjects were not to be made compulsory in the fourth and fifth years : such subjects , it was held , were thereby accorded a lower status . |
| 2 | The demographic acceleration of the second half of the century depressed them quite sharply , except in those areas in the North and Midlands where manufacturing change and expansion were locally creating a different labour market . |
| 3 | Many felt that the Committee members were merely providing a rubber stamp for Government decisions . |
| 4 | Others would share the view of many countrymen , that Sam and his family were merely taking a reasonable share of what the fells and waters surrounding their home offered them . |
| 5 | We were all having a furious argument about who should be there to land this enormous tip and while we were doing that , his Royal Highness sort of sneaked out and did n't give anything to any of us . |
| 6 | Other reasons given for not doing courses were varied and were only cited a small number of times . |
| 7 | Under the captaincy of McBride and the coaching skills of his Ballymena colleague Syd Millar , the Lions , with nine Irishmen in tow , won 21 of their 22 games , and were only denied a clean sweep when flanker Fergus Slattery was robbed of a try in the dying minutes of the Fourth and Final Test which ended in a 13–13 draw . |
| 8 | Besides , he had no sympathy with the Black and Tans ' methods — they were only making a bad situation worse . |
| 9 | We were tremendously encouraged by the active support we received throughout the battle from so many customers and employees , and a comfortable majority of your fellow shareholders have now demonstrated their confidence in our future , for Anglo-Welsh were only offered a further 6.7 per cent of shares to add to the 29.75 per cent they already owned . |
| 10 | Whereas , however , Walton 's brilliant , if imaginative , Life of Herbert was published not long after the poet 's death , the manuscript of the somewhat pedestrian Life of Ferrar by his brother John was lost ; transcripts of parts of it which survived were only published a 150 years after his death ; Nicholas Ferrar 's wide popularity is quite recent . |
| 11 | This caused much grumbling and complaining , as the masons considered they were anyway fighting a losing battle against the castle 's accelerating decay without its guests adding to their workload . |
| 12 | The scale of his new responsibility was illustrated last week by two estate workers who were laboriously repairing a broken stretch of the eight-mile-long stone wall that surrounds Althorp . |
| 13 | But even if such a promise was made it was not carried out , and the ‘ disinherited ’ were soon to form a powerful group at Edward 's court seeking the renewal of the Scottish war . |
| 14 | It included a large force of Welsh infantry — soldiers who were soon to win a fearsome reputation for themselves . |
| 15 | Ardiles said he began to mistrust Swindon Town 's former chairman Brian Hillier , who 's on trial with Macari , and former club accountant Vince Farrar.Ardiles said in 1990 he stopped offering the cash bonuses , and players were soon paid a monthly salary direct into their bank accounts.Macari , Hillier , and Farrar deny the charges , and the case continues . |
| 16 | Jesus ' disciples , with their little faith , were soon to become a small Jewish sect . |
| 17 | Twelve subjects were individually given a four-consonant sequence and an arbitrary number to count backwards from in threes as fast as they could before they were given the signal . |
| 18 | Whereas all the other farmsteads had either lusty young sons to work the land and tend the animals to improve their living standards , or were able to afford to hire in permanent labour , the Hauxwells were supporting four elderly relatives at one stage , had no sons ( Hannah was an only child ) and were finally dealt a cruel blow when Hannah 's father became mortally ill . |
| 19 | Zoff , one of the biggest names in Italian football , clarified the whole situation when he said : ‘ We were just discussing a technical point . |
| 20 | He smiled infuriatingly at her , lifting a hand to run it over his dark hair , seemingly as relaxed as though they were just sharing a pleasant little chat rather than this frosty interview . |
| 21 | They were just having a peaceful protest , sitting there and linking arms : no threats or fear of violence . |
| 22 | ‘ The victims were just having a good time . ’ |
| 23 | We were just having a hot drink . |
| 24 | so she were just having a few crumpets |
| 25 | One by one he checked them off on his register , letting them stagger out into the corridor where the ghouls who liked disasters were already forming a pressing crowd . |
| 26 | The evidence suggests that the writers were already considering a cheap grade ‘ B ’ picture about Ku-Klux-Klan and Black Legion activities when the notorious trial of four workmen in Detroit made executions carried out by such organizations a matter of national attention . |
| 27 | But now said that although he and Mary were already filling a second room with their bits of furniture and stuff , of course they would move it all out at once , if that room were needed by anyone to live in . |
| 28 | The magazine poetry of the 1790s frequently deals with similar subject-matter , and poets were already using a wide variety of metrical forms , including ballads . |
| 29 | The centralized bureaucratic apparatus of the state became subordinated to the interests of the dominant economic groups that were already creating a commercial agriculture and would subsequently promote industrial development : ‘ for the first time a state had been created whose policies and activities were shaped in response to the needs and movement of civil society ’ ( Gamble 1981 : 67 ) . |
| 30 | Even in the peripheral Hiberno-British province they were already displaying a notable capacity for innovation at an early stage of the local Bronze Age . |