Example sentences of "was [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the last months her body began to reject the donor organs and she and her parents , Mike and Sandra Good , were told there was nothing more doctors could do for her . |
| 2 | A statement was issued from Ibrox yesterday detailing the unsatisfactory nature of the dealings with Bernard Tapie 's club , while expressing regret that there was nothing more Rangers could do on behalf of their now disgruntled fans . |
| 3 | Only just into three figures , which was nothing these days , and in any case the money could n't have been important . |
| 4 | I never went no further than you are now , all I come for was my little secateurs , and they were on the shelf here inside the door . |
| 5 | ‘ It was my heavy bones that did for me , as you well know ! ’ |
| 6 | Well , he was my old comrade-in-arms in the good old days of the prewar popular front . |
| 7 | It was my own experiences with herbal treatments , due to being ill over the past few years , that convinced me that there was more than just a placebo effect at work . |
| 8 | The last thing I thought I would talk about was my christian beliefs why I am here today why I am a doctor and what God means to me . |
| 9 | It was their wage-reducing attempts to cut costs which led to Luddism . |
| 10 | If people lived mean , dirty , anti-social lives it was their mean environments , made by dirty , anti-social government policies , that made them so . |
| 11 | Traditionally , individuals have been the central feature of attempts to understand corporate crime , but unfortunately for criminology , it was their pathological characteristics which were advanced as the cause of their deviations . |
| 12 | A second difficulty with this most obvious method of testing is that , even if a preponderance of Protestants were to emerge , it would not follow that it was their religious convictions that supplied the motivation for their science . |
| 13 | The characteristic feature of Brindley 's canals was their winding routes , following contours as far as possible without involving major earthworks . |
| 14 | Since what distinguished communities was their legal customs , anomalies could be reduced by greater legal uniformity within a whole castellany or , better still , a whole province . |
| 15 | Their legitimate trade may have exceeded their opium trade , but it was their hard-currency resources from opium sales which gave them primacy among the foreign merchants in Canton . |
| 16 | Franks contended it was undesirable in principle that the appointment of so many chairmen and members of individual tribunals should rest with the departmental Ministers concerned , when it was their own departments which frequently would be a party to proceedings before a tribunal . |
| 17 | And it was her fellow Australians who plunged in the knives with most relish . |
| 18 | Dimity ran the house , it appeared , and it was her slender arms that bore in the coal scuttles , the heavy shopping baskets and the laden trays , while Ella 's powerful hands designed wood blocks , mixed paint and stamped the lengths of materials which draped their little cottage . |
| 19 | After that the only clue was her heightened responses to everything else that happened , a too-eager agreement , an over-emphatic laugh . |
| 20 | It was her own reactions that she was afraid of . |
| 21 | Yet it was her own countrymen who first demonstrated the ‘ tall poppy syndrome ’ she had herself foretold . |
| 22 | It was her silly fears about Silvia that had scared her off . |
| 23 | One of the reasons for the Midland 's survival was its close links with the Bank of England . |
| 24 | Musically , what originally attracted me to dance was its shamanist aspects , using natural magic to change people 's neurological states and to psychologically empower them . |
| 25 | And who was she these days ? |
| 26 | Taking note , and stock , of new senior residents was something all nurses did within twenty-four hours of that resident 's arrival in a hospital . |
| 27 | Kelly 's dream was one most girls of 11 would expect to come true . |
| 28 | So was there strong connections between the Wesleyan and Baptist Churches and the trade unions ? |
| 29 | Was there many shops open ? |
| 30 | Was there any fights . |