Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [letter] " in BNC.
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1 | And then there were twice s many people there were six people . |
2 | For example , if V I were twice V N inequality would decline as a result of the redistributive tax on capital as long as the share of capital in total income exceeded 20 per cent . |
3 | The proportion of full-time officials er , is already ro already low , for example , at last year 's Labour Party Conference , of seventy four delegates , sixty three were either C E C delegates or lay members elected from the Regions . |
4 | No they were , that 's what they were were n't it when it all happened , the old Revered somebody or other , they wilful murder but erm yeah basically it does n't seem like , there was no real evidence as to who erm fired first and there was no conclusion that the about that , but they were certainly I R A gunmen , para 's , its like without a doubt if you know some people , but like with those high powered weapons they may , alright its unfortunately that somebody may have got shot , but it may not of been the main shot , that may , may of been a ricochet or , or anything like that , both their they 've got a killing range of up to three mile so one mate come round , he says he 's gon na come round again tomorrow and have a look at it |
5 | Because another way in which I had to throw good money after bad was that after he died once I started having things done in the house they kept on turning up things that he had done that were absolutely N B G |
6 | it was on I T V the programme |
7 | Oh since this firm took over , well it was not B M K you know but it was taken over by the |
8 | For those of us who only went to church for weddings , christenings , funerals and compulsory church parades , it was usually C of E ( Church of England ) . |
9 | It was n't A T S was it ? |
10 | Right , it was n't C , I do n't think anybody got that wrong actually , erm , just occasionally you normally get at least one or two people want to put C , because they know that waiver of premiums is twenty six weeks on every other plan . |
11 | you know the priority was either P H I , savings or whatever and I thought we 've gone through the whole form |
12 | And we rather assume that item 3 immediately under that was again F G B and not S D G , because nobody could work out what S D G stands for . |
13 | I mean there is a , I do n't know if anybody saw there was a a programme on , it was actually B B C , erm , this week , it was about somebody who felt that she was very overweight and actually had her stomach stapled ! |