Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was that during the dispute of 14 June to 5 August 1911 , Wilson undercut an agreement which he had made with the Clyde shipowners for a minimum of £pound5 10s a month by " temporarily patching up his bitter quarrel with the Shipping Federation and simultaneously accepting an all-round payment of £pound5 a month " which the shipowners were eventually forced to increase to the Glasgow level as standard . |
| 2 | Shipowners were eventually compelled to concede to the force of circumstances what they had been unwilling to concede either to reason or to industrial muscle . |
| 3 | A lot of the best-looking Waafs on the station had acquired Australian boyfriends , and two of the Met girls had recently married them and were impatiently waiting to get on the ship for Aussie-land to join their husbands . |
| 4 | While the other half supported the society 's worthy aims ; one wealthy admirer even offered a donation of $400,000 , which had to be declined as outside donations were apparently prohibited according to the terms under which SINA had been established . |
| 5 | When we were little we were only allowed to play on the lower bit , in case we fell over this top wall , and it was like a dirt track down there , with bikes and trucks and lord knows what . |
| 6 | You do , you got , Lee the other night , it 's like Lee last Monday , went on the work experience and Monday night it all came down it 's pouring , oh it 's alright he says , were only going to go to the Woking |
| 7 | All you 've said so far just confirms what I have long suspected — that you were so determined to get to the top , so determined to succeed that day , that you quite deliberately drove my brother off the track ! ’ |
| 8 | They 'd been designing tube amps for decades , and manufacturing them on site , whereas other companies were perhaps wanting to get into the tube amp market from scratch . |
| 9 | There were a number of part-time farmers who indicated they would be happy to take part of their holidays to attend although holidays were normally taken to coincide with the busy time on the farm . |
| 10 | They were nevertheless encouraged to play with the children of other service families , instructed to be polite to these less fortunate beings and discouraged from arrogance . |
| 11 | Data analysis techniques were largely developed to cater for the implementation of database systems , although that does not mean that they can not be applied to non-database situations . |
| 12 | He stuck his head out of one of the windows of the coach , and roared protests at the policemen who were desperately trying to cope with the traffic confusion . |
| 13 | At the northern tip of Germany , the Social Democrats were desperately trying to cling to an absolute majority in Schleswig-Holstein , seat of party leader Bjorn Engholm . |
| 14 | These changes , which were just beginning to develop at the end of Marx 's life have thrown into question much of this original Marxist theory and account for the modern debate about whether or not the capitalist state is always ( or ever ) an instrument which defends the interests of the ruling class in a repressive way . |
| 15 | If I were just starting zandering from the beginning I would not even consider night fishing for them until I had got my act together in the daytime . |
| 16 | Across on Platform 2 , the train from Paddington was just pulling in ; and passengers were already beginning to stream across the new pedestrian bridge as Morse and Lewis first ascended , then descended the steps , darting challenging looks around them as they dodged their way through the bustling contra-flow . |
| 17 | The cracks were already beginning to show at the moment of their greatest triumph . |
| 18 | We used to call them ‘ ebb-sleepers ’ because they were usually found resting on the rocks at high tide in small groups , each bird apparently asleep with its beak tucked under its scapulars . |
| 19 | THE Germans were yesterday urged to go on a spending blitz in Britain after the crashing pound turned our goods into bargains . |
| 20 | SOCIAL service chiefs were yesterday urged to speak to the operators of a gipsy site before going ahead with redevelopment plans . |
| 21 | SOCIAL services chiefs were yesterday urged to speak to the operators of a gipsy site before going ahead with plans to redevelop it . |
| 22 | But Dalgliesh knew that Massingham still half-regretted the days when women police officers were content to find lost children , search female prisoners , reform prostitutes , comfort the bereaved and , if they hankered for the excitement of criminal investigation , were suitably occupied coping with the peccadilloes of juvenile delinquents . |
| 23 | HISTORIANS and linguists within Celtic studies were deeply saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Dr Victor E Durkacz . |
| 24 | Although about a hundred rugby balls went into the sea on game days none were ever seen floating on the water for long . |
| 25 | The leading frog realized that if they were ever going to get to the new flower and survive there , there 'd need to be a lot more than one frog . |
| 26 | Oath-helpers were still employed to swear to the good character of the accused ; but everywhere evidence as to the facts of the case grew more significant . |
| 27 | Another generation of Labour leaders , in the 1960s , were still left to search for the Holy Grail of economic planning . |
| 28 | Many were still feared trapped in the rubble . |
| 29 | In 1935 a Mr Cole of Middlesbrough complained to the Sea Fish Commission that they were still having to sell at the pre-war prices of a halfpenny fish and a ha'porth of chips . |
| 30 | The 1948 British Nationality Act renamed them Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies ( CUKCs ) , but the people of Hong Kong retained their right of abode in Britain and during the 1950's were positively encouraged to go to the ‘ Mother Country ’ to fill job vacancies . |