Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were that breaking the psychological bond between a child and a carer for example , parent and child , irretrievably harms the child and therefore should be resisted . |
| 2 | They were each given a two year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £35 costs . |
| 3 | The two office designs were each to have a first premium of £800 , a second of £500 , a third of £300 , a fourth of £200 and three further premiums of £100 each . |
| 4 | Thirty girls between the ages of six and ten slept , ate and did their lessons in rooms with noble proportions , blistered stucco and peeling paint ; they were each permitted the character-building company of one small pet and one pony , and slept on iron beds left behind from the mansion 's use as a hospital for the wounded of World War I. |
| 5 | They were all wearing the special white clothes and hats to protect their faces and bodies , and they were all holding scanners . |
| 6 | The Cambridge Committee brought over at least seventy guaranteed children from Germany , mostly teenagers , who were all given a decent education . |
| 7 | It was a brown room , like the shop and the passages , which were all painted a thick , dark brown . |
| 8 | The walls and ceilings were all painted the same insipid magnolia and there was rush matting on the floor which trapped bits of food and stuff and hurt if you walked on it with bare feet . |
| 9 | While we were all chasing the unknown ‘ Smee ’ we were all as noisy as ever . |
| 10 | Once , coming back from New York , we were all watching a romantic comedy . |
| 11 | The territories described above were all to feel the military might of the Franks under the remarkable leadership of Charles the Great . |
| 12 | Their bars and wire mesh were painted black and though some were smaller than others they were all designed the same . |
| 13 | The doctors , the architects , and , after 1987 , the legal profession were all to face the same mood of antagonism . |
| 14 | They all thought she was gorgeous and they were all making a big fuss . |
| 15 | Conservative and Labour partisans who disagreed so strongly about bias on the BBC were all viewing the same source . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , some of the best matches of the week were those involving the top players . |
| 17 | The only award-bearing courses were those offering the Royal Society of Arts Diploma : Teaching a Community Language . |
| 18 | The new styles marked a major change of direction at the time of the Civil Wars ; although they often impinged only indirectly on local farming life , the upheavals of the 1640s were enough to halt the great rebuilding almost entirely . |
| 19 | His subsequent actions in office , however little they may have done to encourage serious Catholic commitment to the Ulster state , were enough to confirm the conservative Protestant suspicion that O'Neill was another Lundy , prepared to follow the original by opening the gates of unionist Ulster 's walls to the disloyal Catholics and the Irish Republic . |
| 20 | In North America uplift and erosion at this time were enough to divide the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian periods , at least in their nomenclature . |
| 21 | Two goals from Butt and one from Beckham , with McCall pulling one back for Palace , were enough to silence an enthusiastic crowd of 7,825 and give United a two-goal advantage for their return leg at Old Trafford as they challenge for a record seventh Youth Cup win . |
| 22 | Her sufferings were enough to fill a few episodes of the soap and showed that career success is n't a guarantee of happiness . |
| 23 | Two major Jacobite risings , and the plotting which took place on other occasions , were enough to put a considerable number of gentlemen in danger and , indeed , so long as the Jacobite cause retained a substantial following in Scotland it had a further effect upon politics , for the unwillingness of many gentlemen of Jacobite sentiments to take the oaths to Government further limited an already small electorate . |
| 24 | But there were enough to constitute an underground community , a clandestine network of social outcasts and émigrés . |
| 25 | Piers asked Alyssia pleasantly , and she again felt as though they were both making an enormous effort to include her in what they would have preferred to be an intimate tête-à-tête . |
| 26 | Yet they were both examining the same world . |
| 27 | They were both fined the maximum £1,000 . |
| 28 | We were both attending the triennial meeting of the International Association of Forensic Sciences , which provides an opportunity for the international community to exchange ideas in this dynamic area of science . |
| 29 | In terms of policy there was little to differentiate the two main parties , with each committed to maintaining the essence of Labour 's laissez faire economic approach which had included extensive deregulation and privatization measures . |
| 30 | When a great political crisis arose , however , there was little to distinguish the political reactions of the Siberian from the Kursk peasantry . |