Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For though I doubt if he 's ready to own to it yet , I know of another who can and will testify that the two of them were together until the bell sounded for Compline , which would be the better part of an hour later than you have in mind , and a quarter of an hour 's walk from the place , into the bargain . |
| 2 | That term was automatically held to be satisfied when the effects on the interests of the individual were felt to be serious enough to warrant procedural protection , and this was so whether the context was deprivation of an office , expulsion from a trade association , the destruction of one 's property , or the loss of something which would juridically be called a privilege . |
| 3 | In Rice v. Connolly , the landmark decision establishing that this is the law , it was said that this was so because a refusal to answer questions was not ‘ wilful , ’ an expression that their Lordships interpreted to mean ‘ without lawful excuse . ’ |
| 4 | It could be argued that this was so because the individualist Hobbesian anarchism which formed the theoretical model of the bourgeois economy provided no basis for any form of social organisation , including that of the family . |
| 5 | Poole remarked that the choice of Stravinsky music horrified many people ( this was long before the composer had been understood or accepted by general audiences ) and the score ‘ made great difficulty for the cast but none at all for John ’ . |
| 6 | Leading the way to her sitting-room , she turned to face him , and saw that any gentleness of expression was long since a thing of the past . |
| 7 | Clouds towered on every side , and the attacking front was less than a mile to their left . |
| 8 | Her address was less than a mile from the shop , but Folly had asked Lisa to keep it until last in the route she had mapped out . |
| 9 | The beach was less than a furlong from the centre . |
| 10 | It seemed amazing that it was less than a year since that had been said . |
| 11 | McCartney was less than a year older and even Ringo , the ‘ old man ’ of '60s pop was just 23 . |
| 12 | It was less than a year since he had marched into this office , having forsaken the job of Director General of the Security Service for what he regarded as a promotion , while the men of Century recoiled at what they saw as a political insult . |
| 13 | It was less than a year ago , though it seemed far longer , that they had kept each other company at Ockham House during the long bleak hours it had taken Mary Ladram to die . |
| 14 | The proportion of premature births was almost three times as high if the interval was less than a year . |
| 15 | John was born in Belfast but placed in care in England when he was less than a year old . |
| 16 | Although he had had a smoker 's cough for many years , it was less than a year ago that he was diagnosed as having incurable lung cancer . |
| 17 | Left-booted , he forced the bike upright as he hit the water , which was less than a foot deep . |
| 18 | His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too . |
| 19 | There was less than a yard between the beds . |
| 20 | Our house was less than a kilometre from the pick-up point . |
| 21 | Coventry Cathedral Priory declared possessions worth £500 , but its debts left it £52 in the red ; similarly its net income was less than a quarter of the gross . |
| 22 | I stepped carefully over the city wall , which was less than a metre high , and walked slowly through the two main streets . |
| 23 | Presley City 's up-town morning traffic was less than a match for it . |
| 24 | Although the original intention was to devote every Thursday morning during the autumn term to the project , the time spent each week was less than a morning as pupils from Sutton School had to be transported one and half miles to Russells Hall , and other events such as school assemblies delayed the start each Thursday . |
| 25 | The cost was less than the price of an Amstrad PCW 8256 when it first came out onto the market all of those years ago . |
| 26 | In rats receiving the combination of sucralfate plus indomethacin , the area of gastric ulcer was less than the vehicle control but significantly higher than that after the treatment with sucralfate alone . |
| 27 | One of the sub-editors , a former vicar with a most un-Christian vocabulary , later pointed out that this was less than the Church of England paid its clergy . |
| 28 | The Court ruled that the threat to the girl 's life from her repeated threats of suicide was less than the certainty of the unborn child 's loss of life through an abortion . |
| 29 | In two constituencies , Vale of Glamorgan and Bristol North West , the Tory majority was less than the number of expat voters . |
| 30 | For example , from 1973 to 1978 the money supply rose by 306 per cent , while the cost of living rose by 123 per cent ; thereafter , for five or six years the rate of growth of the money supply was less than the rate of increase of prices , especially in 1981 and 1983–5 . |