Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [be] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We certainly were like being in the army more or less , and er there was the head servants and erm the under servants , you know ? |
| 2 | These were to be of a loose fit above the knee and slightly tapered below to follow ‘ the shape of the leg from above the calf to the top of the shoe . ’ |
| 3 | It was possible to estimate the approximate vicinity of the conjectural planet if it were to be of a reasonable size and to be responsible for the perturbation of Uranus ' orbit . |
| 4 | The old rule was that requisitions on title were dealt with after contracts had been exchanged , and that prior to that time the questions were to be of a practical nature , as per the form of preliminary enquiries . |
| 5 | Fortunately , it happens that we have a common friend and both he and Mr Maxwell were to be at a board meeting in New York on Monday . ’ |
| 6 | Some odd-looking monsters had been produced by designers striving to come to terms with these innovations , but by 1880 warships were already essentially what they were to be for the rest of the century , armoured , steam-driven and screw-propelled , with their main armament in revolving turrets or carried broadside . |
| 7 | He told us some harrowing stories of life on a bomber aerodrome which had ‘ main force ’ squadrons , always carrying heavy loads of high explosives and incendiaries , and impressed on us how lucky we were to be on a Pathfinder station . |
| 8 | The infant churches experienced from the synagogues persecution which , when full grown , they were to be in a position to return . |
| 9 | The clubhouse plans ( of which no copy exists ) were discussed , and were revised to include a scullery ; the usual offices ( presumably the toilets ) were to be in a detached , rather than integral , building . |
| 10 | ‘ It would be extra-ordinary and , in our opinion , unthinkable if the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) were to be in a position thereafter to pronounce upon other grounds of appeal and thereby destroy the order of the House of Lords by again quashing the conviction . ’ |
| 11 | However , parents who could not afford to pay for the meals were to be in no way penalized . |
| 12 | The controversy which surrounded these events , and which periodically exercised the District Executive and enlivened the District Council , took place at a time when tutor-organisers were less established figures than they were to be in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 13 | The Necromundans were to be in the fortress-monastery for six imperial months before suffering their initiatory hazing at the hands of older cadets . |
| 14 | The county court judge held that in view of certain statutory provisions which provided that the costs of the arbitration were to be in the discretion of the arbitrator , the costs agreement was invalid . |
| 15 | Sara and Thomas were to be in the cottage , and Simon 's household of three in Thomas 's place . |
| 16 | It has been suggested that literacy levels in these weaving villages were higher than they were to be in the industrial towns of south Lancashire a generation later . |
| 17 | It was like being at the source of the lightning . |
| 18 | It was like being at the edge of the world . |
| 19 | It was like being on a ship , but a steady , secure and snugly protective ship . |
| 20 | But now it was like being on the launch pad — the craft standing on its end with the nose upwards and me sitting there facing upwards being pulled down into the back of the seat by gravity . |
| 21 | It was like being in a loo that rose and fell . |
| 22 | It was like being in a supermarket during late-night shopping , with that overpowering sensation that you are losing your space . |
| 23 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 24 | ‘ It was like being in a car and hitting a brick wall . |
| 25 | It was like being in a straightjacket . |
| 26 | We always called it the posh part , because although our street carried on from it over the main road , it was like being in a different village altogether . |
| 27 | It was like being in a minefield . |
| 28 | It was like being in a sort of ghost theatre and it was terribly forlorn . |
| 29 | Working for Malcolm and Vivienne was like being in the army . |
| 30 | It was like being in the top of the oak tree again , except this time the shimmer of woodland was transformed into the dream-like rhythm of words . |