Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arsenal 's breaks were few but always threatening and Oldham , after a first flurry , found openings increasingly elusive . |
| 2 | Passage controls were few and well spaced out , so most crews reached Dover with a fairly uneventful run . |
| 3 | Portholes were few and usually hatched over with leering daemon masks . |
| 4 | By implication , of course , those who chose not to become part of the ‘ generalized other ’ were less than fully developed . |
| 5 | The demands of the workers were more than ever focused upon political change . |
| 6 | This remaining wing was built in about 1640 , a time when local builders were more than ever turning their craft into a conscious art . |
| 7 | I believe that his suspicions in this regard were more than amply fuelled by the activities of Marcia Williams , who also was a great believer in the conspiracy theory . |
| 8 | It was this that eventually scuppered Horner . |
| 9 | It was this that finally resolved the men to organize a hunt . |
| 10 | It was this that finally scuppered her opponent . |
| 11 | Right , now , erm , were going to have it on the actual headings as far as the minutes concerned cos we did n't deal with anything very much last time , but the next item on the agenda erm , is usually campaigns and Amnesty erm usually has one or two or more campaigns running on a particular aspect of it 's work or a particular country and there was some that really started maybe two or three years ago and which have continued erm in a smaller form since that time . |
| 12 | However , at the numbers of the family increased he was more than often ignored . |
| 13 | When he came along erm was about he was more or less asked what terms he wanted and said that he was no to show no favouritism . |
| 14 | The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place . |