Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest differences between the groups were in understanding the different ideas ( propositions ) in a sentence , in dealing with problems of grammatical unpredictability , and most simply of all , in recognising words . |
| 2 | Attempts by the Church to solve trade problems like Third World Debt were branded ‘ political ’ by those whose intrinsic interest were in preserving the economic status quo . |
| 3 | It was n't about creating quirky objects for kitsch fashion victim consumers , it was about improving the real world . |
| 4 | ‘ I was after thinking the same meself , before you came . ’ |
| 5 | He 'd probably think I was after spendin' the entire night in a shebeen . ’ |
| 6 | It was skinnyness that was popular , the more you resembled a telegraph pole the bigger your chance was of winning the annual ‘ narrow cup ’ . |
| 7 | His remarks came as Labour employment spokesman , Mr Henry McLeish , denied reports that the party was considering replacing the automatic payment of welfare benefits with a policy which would require many unemployed either to find a job or to accept full-time training or higher education . |
| 8 | In that case the corporation was considering increasing the maximum number of licensed taxis in its area . |
| 9 | That night the air in the basement room became so thick it was like inhaling the black tar they put on the road . |
| 10 | IT WAS like reading the last page of a well-written romance story to see John McCarthy and Jill Morrell relaxed and together a year after the end of his ordeal with Arab terrorists . |
| 11 | It was like eating the same meal at every mealtime . |
| 12 | It was like feeling the soft dints at the top of a coconut . |
| 13 | But perhaps her most important legacy was in divesting the public culture of political language and political idealism . |
| 14 | The nearest he came to winning a round in my book was in sharing the third , after delivering a heavy right hand that briefly staggered Eubank — whose ability to take a punch is well-documented . |
| 15 | Her most significant role was in shaping the Social Work ( Scotland ) Act 1968 , along with Richard Titmuss and myself . |
| 16 | The main difficulty was in finding the right actor to play the title role of the 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock . |
| 17 | My interest at the time was in describing the close bonds of friendship women often from , an intimacy rarely found amongst men and about which I spoke on Women 's Hour . |
| 18 | Among the ancient civilisations of North Africa and Asia , the slaughter of domestic animals was almost invariably accompanied by elaborate sacrificial rituals in which , surprisingly , the emphasis was on causing the minimum amount of suffering and distress . |
| 19 | I started off with a random set of guesses as to how to break the code , and then checked each guess to see how good it was at turning the garbled message into English . |
| 20 | While Eva was at Usher the political situation did not give them too much pause for thought . |
| 21 | Thrombin digestion of GST-DP-1 84-204 was by resuspending the GST-fusion protein/glutathione-sepharose beads in 50mM Tris , pH 8.0 , 150mM NaCl , 2.5mM CaCl 2 , 0.1% β -mercaptoethanol containing human thrombin at 3μgml -1 for 2h . |
| 22 | One was by cultivating the non-partisan persona of General de Gaulle and distancing himself whenever possible from the political party upon which his government depended . |
| 23 | I suspect that they also had scholarly and dedicated teachers and well read ministers and the encouragement of parents who realised that the only chance their children had of improving their way of life was by having the best education possible which would enable them to compete for the limited number of places which were available in the colleges and universities . |