Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , the fortunes of the new cosmology were more deeply affected by the antagonism between Catholic and Reformed Christianity than by the doctrinal peculiarities of either . |
| 2 | As in france , communism , pacifism or religion were just as likely to mark the outlook of those who had experienced the camaraderie , fear and gore of trench warfare . |
| 3 | If a man who can generate pretty decent clubhead speed were inadvertently to use a women 's ball , the result would be higher trajectory with some distance loss — the clubhead will have compressed the ball beyond the point where the ball achieves its most efficient velocity . |
| 4 | Akroteria were later added in bronze : Victories at the apices and basins at the outer angles . |
| 5 | There is controversy over the extent to which the zaibatsu were actually dissolved , but there is some agreement that fewer business leaders were purged than originally intended , that many pre-war industrialists reappeared in key positions during the 1950s and that their banks largely survived intact . |
| 6 | He added that in Sweden salmonella had been eradicated from poultry by vaccination but cases of food poisoning were still increasing . |
| 7 | The Serbian Internal Affairs Secretariat ( i.e. Ministry ) declared on March 28 that rumours of a deliberate chemical poisoning were merely " a stage-managed deception by the protagonists of Albanian nationalism and separatism " . |
| 8 | However , although significant , these changes in cell proliferation were very modest ( <20% increase ) and the most marked changes in cellular kinetics were seen in the proximal colon where most of the fermentation occurred and the highest SCFA concentrations were seen . |
| 9 | The girl 's pink and white candy stripe skirt ( 26 stitches × 15 rows ) was removed on to a length of yarn so that the top could be drawn up and stitched in position around the waist ; the sides and hem of the skirt were then stitched down and a pink bow was added . |
| 10 | In the bedroom cupboard the man 's shirt and woman 's skirt were still swinging . |
| 11 | Centralization and bureaucratization were historically closely linked to the growth of a monetized economy , which provided the fiscal resources for the rise of absolutist states in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe . |
| 12 | It could thus be claimed that mare and horse were effectively synonymous in this context . |
| 13 | The fire brigade were very critical of the water pressure available to them in fighting this hilltop fire . |
| 14 | Yet the Steward and Moray were only youths and the Constable not much more , and inexperienced , with Sir Archibald scarcely a renowned warrior . |
| 15 | The Italian side were mostly ninnies . |
| 16 | The home side were equally decisive in defence and it was a full hour before White suddenly found an opening . |
| 17 | The East Anglian side were also the culprits the last time Atkinson hit an all-time low , when Ipswich beat his West Brom side in the 1978 FA Cup semi-finals . |
| 18 | he had lost the two centre top teeth , and with the tip of his tongue he could feel that the two on either side were also loose . |
| 19 | The home side were well short at the finish on 112 for 8 . |
| 20 | Kingsholm was full to bursting … but where was the passion … where was the pride as Bath bulldozed their way to victory … the Gloucester faithful fell silent as their side were well and truly beaten … there was only one try … that was scored by Tony Swift early on … |
| 21 | Those sitting at his side were pretty sure , too . |
| 22 | After all , their side were ahead 3-1 from the first leg . |
| 23 | Several senior men on the private company side were fundamentally opposed to nationalisation , and preferred to seek a career elsewhere in the private sector . |
| 24 | A UN Security Council resolution adopted unanimously on Nov. 25 noted that the meetings had not achieved their goal " in particular because certain positions adopted by the Turkish Cypriot side were fundamentally at variance with the Set of Ideas " , and urged the parties to adopt a series of confidence-building measures recommended by the Secretary-General . |
| 25 | Trevor Anderson 's side were fiercely committed throughout . |
| 26 | PERTHSHIRE Brass Band played stirring music at the interval when the home side were only 2-1 down . |
| 27 | The Premier Division-based Scotland side were only beaten , in fact , by a goal of almost tragic proportions , conceded when an infrequent error was characteristically punished by Riedle . |
| 28 | The scenery and people on this side were very different from those in her village . |
| 29 | Gavin Hastings 's side were very positive in their approach to the Five Nations Championship . |
| 30 | Maternal influence did not much interest contemporaries usually , unless some obvious connection could be established , or possibly where the connections on the distaff side were more impressive and influential . |