Example sentences of "[was/were] [pos pn] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Independent Television undermined the BBC 's historical sense of privilege and security : with less than 30% of the national audience — it went down to 27% in the 1950s — the BBC 's position as the main instrument of broadcasting was clearly threatened , as were its claims to the full licence fee . |
| 2 | In their evidence to the Social Services Committee on the Griffiths Report , Evans and Maxwell concluded that its most far-reaching and radical aspects were its proposals for the central management of the service , with its promise of a new relationship between the DHSS and local health authorities and the change from passive to active management ( Evans and Maxwell 1984 ) . |
| 3 | In Britain , for the Irish entering in search of a new life , Liverpool and London stations were their gateways to the streets more often paved with misery than with gold . |
| 4 | Before the review began , and immediately after the agreed report had been presented , I interviewed the various participants in order to find out what were their feelings about the review . |
| 5 | The government subsidy made it likely that the staff of the two papers were less worried about pushing up sales than were their counterparts on the then Lonrho-owned Standard . |
| 6 | The Salesian Sisters , who were their hostesses for the weekend , gave them a warm and friendly welcome , and the retreatants quickly settled down in the beautiful house . |
| 7 | What is much more difficult to know is what were his motives for the decision , and what he expected to be the likely outcome . |
| 8 | Important as were his contacts with the Frankish rulers for his preaching in Hesse and Thuringia , he could scarcely bring himself to share the company of the fast-living Frankish bishops whom he met at court — Milo of Trier ‘ and others like him ’ , as he said dismissively — until his mentor , Bishop Daniel of Winchester , had to cite to him texts from Augustine and the Bible against separating oneself from sinners and in favour of dissimulation . |
| 9 | The only sounds were his footsteps on the stairs , the slamming of her front door followed by the noise of his car engine as it roared away from her flat . |
| 10 | The tsar had good reason to listen to the advice of his financial experts , for not only were his finances in a desperate state but also he could not easily borrow on western markets so long as the empire 's accounting procedures remained inadequate . |
| 11 | Less happy were his efforts during the late 1890s to revive the Speaker as an organ for radical ideas , and his editorship of the ailing Daily News from 1901 to 1902 . |
| 12 | Among many professional distinctions were his presidencies of the Institutions of Mechanical Engineers ( 1909 ) and Civil Engineers ( 1919 ) , and the ( Smeatonian ) Society of Civil Engineers ( 1931 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ I have seen God face to face , and yet my life is preserved ’ were his words at the start of the day . |
| 14 | Both were his colleagues amongst the seven original confederate magnates . |
| 15 | This produced a reply which I am sure was wholly deserved ( though I can not remember the essay ) , as were his comments on an earlier submission . |
| 16 | Such events , however , were not very frequent — a whole year might pass without one — and so the only additional earnings he could usually rely on were his winnings at the weekly bridge school . |
| 17 | As though he had suddenly realised that Curtis was bluffing him , frightening him into pleading for mercy in a pathetic attempt to humiliate him — or perhaps to force from him a confession of what the lieutenant claimed were his crimes against the whores he had exterminated . |
| 18 | What what were your experiences of the war ? |
| 19 | ‘ So they were your soldiers at the ford , ’ Isabel realised . |
| 20 | 1 Why did all the children laugh at Julie on the first day she went to her new school ? 2 How do you think Julie felt that day ? 3 Did you feel sorry for her then ? 4 Did you feel sorry for her later in the story ? 5 When Julie was left tied to the lamp post was it fair , unfair , cruel … or what ? 6 Whose fault was it that Julie and Bee stopped seeing each other ? 7 Why did Julie get hurts and what effect did it have on Bee ? 8 What were your feelings at the end ? |
| 21 | And how much , how much were your subs for the Labour Party , how much was your membership ? |
| 22 | So when you had peat on , were your doors in the water then ? |
| 23 | Noting that " Europe has entered a new , promising era " , the declaration stated that " as a consequence this Alliance must and will adapt " and must " reach out to the countries of the East which were our adversaries in the Cold War and extend to them the hand of friendship " . |
| 24 | That was my achievements for the week . |
| 25 | Eustace had played a significant part in the struggle between Angevin and Capetian royal houses , but , as with the case of his contemporary , Fulk Fitzwarine [ q.v. ] , it was his exploits as a fugitive on the run from authority which really appealed to his biographer . |
| 26 | What was his marks for the last test . |
| 27 | No that was , that was our er that was our accounts for the year . |
| 28 | What was your views on the fire station ? |