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 | 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. |
| 3 | They were all wearing the special white clothes and hats to protect their faces and bodies , and they were all holding scanners . |
| 4 | The Cambridge Committee brought over at least seventy guaranteed children from Germany , mostly teenagers , who were all given a decent education . |
| 5 | It was a brown room , like the shop and the passages , which were all painted a thick , dark brown . |
| 6 | While we were all chasing the unknown ‘ Smee ’ we were all as noisy as ever . |
| 7 | Once , coming back from New York , we were all watching a romantic comedy . |
| 8 | The territories described above were all to feel the military might of the Franks under the remarkable leadership of Charles the Great . |
| 9 | They all thought she was gorgeous and they were all making a big fuss . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly , some of the best matches of the week were those involving the top players . |
| 11 | The only award-bearing courses were those offering the Royal Society of Arts Diploma : Teaching a Community Language . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In North America uplift and erosion at this time were enough to divide the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian periods , at least in their nomenclature . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But there were enough to constitute an underground community , a clandestine network of social outcasts and émigrés . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They were both fined the maximum £1,000 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When a great political crisis arose , however , there was little to distinguish the political reactions of the Siberian from the Kursk peasantry . |
| 22 | The reason for the complaint was that given the even numbers in the class ( now that ‘ Daz ’ was in the corridor ! ) , someone now had to work with Brian Smart . |
| 23 | Was that considered a hard thing at the time ? |
| 24 | Kwik-Fit , the tyres and exhausts gorup , was another to lose an early gain , closing 3p down at 140p . |
| 25 | The best track for me was This Feeling a clear and intricate guitar backing , topped with haunting melodious vocals . |
| 26 | We was all having a hard time , a rough time , and doing what we could to make our homes look respectable and nice for people to come into . |
| 27 | But it was enough to see the huge steel bulk , with white waves licking hungrily up its vast sides , and the grey superstructure topped with the red funnel . |
| 28 | The question was , whether the presumption of James 's abdication was enough to allow the scrupulous to transfer their allegiance to William and Mary . |
| 29 | Rocastle , whose career has nose-dived since his £2 million move to Leeds from Arsenal in the summer , struck his first competitive goal for the Yorkshiremen after only 11 minutes — and it was enough to settle a disappointing clash . |
| 30 | This was enough to give a slight breather . |