Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [art] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While in Clermont he emerged as the focus for those who were dissatisfied with the status quo — just as Childebert I had earlier appeared as an ally for Arcadius . |
| 2 | Very few MPs were interested in the wor working people 's demand . |
| 3 | Of the 90-odd writers and politicians billed to speak , most hailed from the soft and hard left , and were hostile to the status quo , or abolitionist . |
| 4 | They were opposed to the non replacement of jobs . |
| 5 | ‘ The achievement of the uprising , ’ says the journalist Nahum Barnea , ‘ is that the vast majority of Israelis who were happy with the status quo are now much more unhappy with it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The achievement of the uprising , ’ says the journalist Nahum Barnea , ‘ is that the vast majority of Israelis who were happy with the status quo are now much more unhappy with it . ’ |
| 7 | In Grampian small companies accounted for 28.5% of all exports , while large companies were responsible for a 71.5% share . |
| 8 | We found that complexes specific to I9X were undetectable with the UP6 oligo probe ( Figure 5A , lane 8 ) which spans the gene 62 promoter U site ( strongly protected by VT2 in DNase I footprinting ) . |
| 9 | Mrs Thatcher also appears to have intervened more directly than previous Prime Ministers in the promotion of Permanent Secretaries , preferring less senior and ‘ obvious ’ candidates on the grounds that they were impatient with the status quo and not ‘ defeatist ’ . |
| 10 | Many of the Asian designers the US trade weekly talked to were worried about the 66MHz clock frequency , because at that speed , stray radiations become a serious problem and it is unlikely that garage operations are going to be able to knock up boards using the chip that will work . |
| 11 | The 1964 British Election Survey found that just over half ( 51 per cent ) were satisfied with the status quo , and supporters of further nationalization outnumbered denationalizers by 28 to 21 per cent . |
| 12 | In the schools in his survey , 22 hours a week were devoted to the 3Rs , two hours a week spent on the creative arts and three hours a week given over to other studies . |
| 13 | Er which er I suspect was due to the th the insufficient time to carry out the exercise . |
| 14 | Looking around Old Town Square , it is a remarkable survival for a capital which was rich in the 19C and which could have been rebuilt then . |
| 15 | I was asleep after the crême brulée g . |
| 16 | Yeah , she was deaf as a po ! |
| 17 | The strength of anti-DLP feeling was manifest at a 200,000-strong opposition rally in Seoul on July 21 . |
| 18 | Very small children are not bothered about appearance and Piggy was popular with the little-uns . |
| 19 | Not only did it work perfectly , but the output was indistinguishable from the 550C . |
| 20 | Mr Blackburn said he was delighted with the BS5750 part two award ( also known as ISO9002 ) , which was ‘ part of our campaign to raise standards of quality and reliability to the benefit of all our customers . ’ |
| 21 | Of the 59 patients , 31 were male and 28 female , which was similar to the male:female distribution in the total series of ulcerative colitis patients ( 596:570=52%:48% ) . |
| 22 | Not all α-granules may respond in the same way to secretory stimuli ; for example , Zucker et al ( 1979 ) , who found that over 80 per cent of platelet factor VIII-related antigen was present in the α-granules could only demonstrate the release of 30 per cent of this in response to stimulation with collagen . |
| 23 | This is a major step forward from the Renault 25 , a car that was good with a V6 but coarse with the smaller four-cylinder engine . |
| 24 | Well I was impressed by the erm the Maxwell erm peoples comments that the funds should be clearly marked pension fund accounts and and that er there would be regulations that this money could n't be transferred without some the regulator again or somebody making er agreeing to the transaction , but I erm fully understand that would be erm very time-consuming , but er that 's the only way I can see that , that the fund should be clearly marked that they 're pension fund and should n't be transferred without some some authority agreeing to it . |
| 25 | David Chambers of Le Meridien was responsible for the foie gras starter , Vaughan Archer of the London Hilton for the broth of scallops , Martin Davies of Brown 's Hotel for the wild salmon stuffed with tomato and cream courgettes . |
| 26 | Choquette & trusell ( 1978 ) found that the intensity of the stain was proportional to the Mg content of calcite . |
| 27 | With the dispersal of the children over the country it was vital for the RCM to decentralise its activities . |
| 28 | At least the new house was close to the M40 and thus to London . |
| 29 | A third lengthy sortie was carried-out on the 16/17th to attack the synthetic oil plant at Brux in Czechoslovakia , carrying a full fuel load of 2,154 gallons . |
| 30 | oh if it , if it was if it w if it was that one I think , I think there was some dis if , if it 's the thing I 'm thinking of there was some discrepancy , I think it was alright in the s on one occasion there was some stuff which I could n't find at the end |