Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] and [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | To understand why Jews should be bothered by Catholics praying at this site it is necessary to go back to the role played by the Catholic Church in fomenting antisemitism , the passivity of the Pope during the war while the exterminations were underway and even the suspicions caused by the reception of Austrian President Kurt Waldheim , with his dubious war record , by the present Pope , John Paul II ( from Poland ) . |
2 | Citizenship was obviously and visually a life , your whole life , with common dangers , common responsibilities , common enjoyments , and common ambitions … |
3 | As has been seen above the Council was organically and functionally the creation of the member States with no separate existence outside their control . |
4 | It seems , on looking back , one day I was outside and then the next day I was in , as if I 'd had nothing to do with it : I had been pushed or drawn or whatever you like . |
5 | To my mind , Niki was technically and mechanically the better driver ; he was willing to make the absolute best of even the most minimal chance . |
6 | By 1880 this was more and more a matter of Great Russian chauvinism within the boundaries of the Russian Empire , and tsarist imperialism abroad , but it had great sentimental appeal among Slavs living under non-Slav rulers who were encouraged by it to look to this ‘ big brother ’ . |
7 | The latter is a is a direct result of setting a poll tax which was clearly and blatantly an under provision to provide decent services in this city . |
8 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
9 | But she did n't know where it was either and soon the whole family was up on their feet looking for the source of the noise . |