Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We got our scores at crucial stages and it was always difficult for England when they were only level at half-time having played with the breeze . |
| 2 | ‘ We got our scores at crucial stages and it was always difficult for England when they were only level at half-time having played with the breeze . |
| 3 | It seemed to me that hardly any left the building in those weeks of May without murmuring apologetically that they were only leaving in order to get some baking done at home ! |
| 4 | Now obviously the you could see the cars in that fast lane there , they were just nose to tail , nose to tail . |
| 5 | Also on the surge , they were quickly face to face with Mallachy and Rory . |
| 6 | Although the four of them were practically knee to knee , he made as if speaking in a vast auditorium . |
| 7 | And we were also way off beam about unemployment being the greatest political force of the 1980s in the Third World — we predicted riots among the urban unemployed all over the world which simply have n't happened . |
| 8 | We were now face to face with this man of diverse talent — poet , novelist , song-writer , performer — after following his career for nearly two decades , reading his books , playing his records , watching him sing , reading of him through the eyes of his critics — no easy feat when one is not inhibited by astigmatism ! |
| 9 | Important though these duties were , they were fairly routine in character ; they did not bring Clanvow to the notice of a wider public . |
| 10 | Well I I was in the east end and of course where my mum and my aunt worked it was mostly sort of cleaning and scrubbing and charring and turning mangles in the back garden and all sorts of things . |
| 11 | When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact . |
| 12 | Although modern research has pointed out that women 's paid employment is underestimated by the available records ( in particular the census ) , since it was more irregular and less likely to be recorded than that of men , women 's choice of work was certainly in practice severely restricted , first and most crucially by what was effectively segregation by sex , secondly by local opportunities . |
| 13 | Because erm even when radio came er there was only sort of chamber music on the radio you know . |
| 14 | I was only average at school . |
| 15 | Poor Elsie had died of the whooping cough just after Harry had gone to America , so now there was only Edna at home in the daytime to help her mother . |
| 16 | Another non-elected member of the Cabinet , Carl Clarke , was hitherto Minister of State for Finance and Foreign Affairs . |
| 17 | Rodolfo Díaz was hitherto under-secretary of labour ; and Avelino Porto had been rector of the Belgrano University . |
| 18 | Journalists and producers who fell out of favour were ‘ put on the shelf ’ ( ‘ mis au placard ’ ) — thereby accentuating what was already part of broadcasting mythology : in the 1980S as in the 1940S , key managerial , editorial and programming appointments and dismissals — who 's ‘ in ’ and who 's ‘ out ’ — were attributed as much ( or more ) to political as to professional factors . |
| 19 | Dr Baillie was lately teacher of anatomy , and physician to St George 's Hospital . |
| 20 | It was just part of life . ’ |
| 21 | Or perhaps it was just lack of choice , the need for a home of her own and a child . |
| 22 | ‘ I wish I had n't given up , ’ Alison was saying , ‘ it was just lack of courage . ’ |
| 23 | Yeah well why that happened , Oh I think it was just pressure of work you know , she had so much else to do . |
| 24 | In some patients , there was four-fold increase in antibody response before the first sputum culture of P cepacia . |
| 25 | I pointed out that the ground was once part of Tip Farm and that on rainy days Bob Crudge still used it for artificial insemination . |
| 26 | ‘ She was always kind at school , ’ said Lili . |
| 27 | She certainly believed in equality between the sexes , especially in the work place , but felt there was always room for courtesy and manners in what was becoming an increasingly uncaring society . |
| 28 | There was always room for improvement . |
| 29 | The main aim was to win new audiences and so there was always room for experiment , especially at the better end of the market . |
| 30 | Worship might have taken place in any of the sheds or barracks of the men , but there was always risk of detection . |