Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They noted that asylums had a tendency to provide employment on farms and in workshops for the most competent and socially organized patients and there were some remarkably successful asylum farming ventures ; for example , in the early twentieth century Cane Hill Hospital became famous for its herd of pedigree pigs . |
| 2 | Lady Grubb had fallen easily into the habit of behaving to her children as if she were some doggedly snobbish godmother , inviting them home every few months to look into their marriage prospects and treating the occasion as if it were a country weekend that put her to a lot of trouble , though her house was actually in the middle of London and fully staffed with unhappy au-pair girls . |
| 3 | ( I never cease to marvel at the continued confusion in the public mind between nuclear power and weapons : too many people stare at me as if I were some unnaturally hybrid creature when I mention to them that I am both a member of CND and a strident advocate of nuclear power stations to produce electricity . |
| 4 | And your man would come up to us afterwards and say , ‘ Those were some very obscure cover versions you were playing tonight , but I liked a few of them … yeah , quite interesting . |
| 5 | In addition in the Jurassic there were some truly great coelurosaur types with fearsome talons . |
| 6 | The people from the highest paid to the lowest paid were all just one unit . |
| 7 | But erm when I lost my sight then he had to close that down and come back so we were all under one roof again . |
| 8 | We were all so busy making plans , living dreams , that somehow Clare and I — and perhaps Mother too — were blinded to the truth , so evident around us : the unemployment figures , the era of mass production , a new industrial revolution in which machines did the work of thousands of men ; even the fact that ‘ wireless ’ was no longer a novelty . |
| 9 | I gather from the visitors ’ book that you were both there this afternoon , that 's the only reason for this visit . |
| 10 | Was that slightly pooped gentleman with the waving arms who had ( oh God ! ) told Lord Boddy that his views were absolutely fascinating , and ( oh God oh God ! ) lit another of the television company 's cigarettes with their silver butane table-lighter every time he had seen the red light come up on the camera pointing at him — was that exuberantly shameful figure really identical with the anguished mortal man who now lay here stretched as taut as a piano-string in the dark ? |
| 11 | There was that very nice place in Keswick where he 'd always longed to take a smart woman to stay a day or two . |
| 12 | Initially on that first night after the operation there was that very finite feeling : ‘ Oh my God I have cancer that means death . ’ |
| 13 | Was that about two foot four ? |
| 14 | Was that apparently empty fisherman 's hut an abandoned home or a gun emplacement ? |
| 15 | Ace thought that was another suspiciously lucky break , but she had no complaints . |
| 16 | Mayne was another immensely tall man endowed with tremendous physical strength . |
| 17 | This was another enormously successful sale . |
| 18 | The second effort was another wonderfully alert piece of rugby . |
| 19 | There was another more serious development : the dramatic change in the structure of taxation . |
| 20 | The sex scene apart , there was another more fundamental reason why the film was a commercial disaster . |
| 21 | The scent of shampoo , clean and tangy , still clung to him , but there was another more masculine note to the aroma , a note that made her heady with its faint hint of warm male skin . |
| 22 | There was another very good performance in the Pacific which produced a profit of $1.8m against a loss in the same period last year of $1.4m . |
| 23 | But there was another very important influence on policy . |
| 24 | But there was another very significant aspect of adaptability which indicates the continual blurring , by almost everyone concerned , of economic and social ( moral ) issues . |
| 25 | He reads : ‘ 1995 was another highly encouraging year for your company . |
| 26 | The manufacture of faience objects was another highly specialized craft closely associated with temple worship ; many of these objects have a religious significance and were probably made for cult use . |
| 27 | Not unless there was another damned good reason for her flight , Guy concluded grimly . |
| 28 | There was this rather famous instance where he had to scrub the floor while Pamela and I were having a long and involved discussion , but I was told that people could n't take their eyes off him . |
| 29 | Now added to that by our wall there was this ruddy great lorry again it 's a great bit thing with an open back right ? |
| 30 | Was this too some part of the Scarabae plot ? |