Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the colliery communities -were never really associated with the cult of respectability , which was so important in dividing the " rough " from the " respectable " working class in Victorian England , nevertheless the pit brow women were regarded as a moral threat . |
| 2 | But the appointments were presumably also made on the assumption that the men concerned could be relied upon to obey Gloucester rather than the Woodvilles , an assumption which , during the protectorate , seems to have been vindicated . |
| 3 | But the appointments were presumably also made on the assumption that the men concerned could be relied upon to obey Gloucester rather than the Woodvilles , an assumption which , during the protectorate , seems to have been vindicated . |
| 4 | The only sheep around here are the sad bastards who walk around in Man Utd shirts ( particularly the fat bastard in Wakefield who has No.7 and Cantona stencilled on the back ) who were presumably sexually abused at a young age and hence feel the need to rebel — why not go the whole hog and dress up as a woman , you would nt look half as silly . |
| 5 | In between the ladies and the gents ( matches I mean ) we were ushered to private rooms , where , beneath striped awnings , we were right royally entertained to a distinguished tea . |
| 6 | While the IVIS discs had only loosely defined objectives and were rather vaguely intended as an underlying educational resource , IVIFE discs had very clear objectives . |
| 7 | Staff training stressed service and advice rather than aggressive selling , and people found the Board shops ( or ‘ service centres ’ as they were rather coyly called before the 1960s ) helpful on matters such as fixing plugs , and advice on safety , reliability , running costs and brand choice . |
| 8 | Although most socialist writers were agreed that crime resulted from the misery , exploitation , greed and selfishness promoted by the private property relationships of capitalism , they were rather less agreed on the status of the criminal . |
| 9 | The only contraception that was on offer ( though sporadically ) was for use by men , whose interests were arguably better served by the birth of another son than by their wives ' good health . |
| 10 | In Northern Nigeria , he succeeded in detaching the judicial system and the technical departments from the grip of the administrative service , whose claims to omnipotence and omnicompetence were thereby permanently reduced from the heights to which they had risen a decade before . |
| 11 | There remained differences , however , between the industrial and agricultural sectors of European society , and these differences were most clearly reflected in the bourgeois advocacy of free trade and the aristocratic demand for tariffs . |
| 12 | The other advantages inherent in the strategy were that ( i ) it enabled the allied forces to capitalise on their superior mobility and air power by minimizing the possibility of becoming bogged down in a static war ; ( ii ) it made the allies less vulnerable to attack by chemical weapons , as such weapons were most easily used from a static defensive position against an enemy engaged in a frontal assault ; ( iii ) it offered the possibility of cutting off all forces within Kuwait and southern Iraq — including the Republican Guard — thereby enabling the allies to destroy Iraq 's military capability in addition to liberating Kuwait ; and ( iv ) it meant that the allies would capture a swathe of Iraqi territory , a potentially useful lever in the event of the negotiation and implementation of ceasefire conditions . |
| 13 | When " comprehension moves " were made they were most frequently noted at the end of a read , although there was often no follow-up on understanding text at all . |
| 14 | This agitation was directed principally at those members of the planning office , the full Council , and the Planning Committee who were most closely identified with the housing policy . |
| 15 | The National Executive wrote to the four signatories and supporters who were most closely identified with the Petition campaign , Bevan , Strauss , Cdr Young , and W. Bruce , asking them to discontinue their support for the campaign or face expulsion from the Party . |
| 16 | Preference values for health states were most commonly derived from the matrix developed by Kind et al . |
| 17 | In addition , the platelet-specific proteins β-thromboglobulin and platelet factor 4 were highly significantly elevated in a large group of hyperlipaemic subjects compared to normolipaemic controls ( Zahavi et al , 1981 ) . |
| 18 | However market relations were much less developed in the Kursk guberniia than in the productive Ukraine and Volga areas . |
| 19 | That too is a problem , but I must say that we were much better prepared for the Inter-Continental Cup than a couple of other tournaments — that only makes our failure to qualify more disappointing . |
| 20 | Unlike in the Reich , where the Nazis had sealed off the German people and the NSDAP membership from foreign scrutiny , and where investigative journalism , hostile comment and moral concern were all about to disappear into the camps , leaving the party accountable to no-one , Danzig was never able fully to apply these principles simply because the city remained a ward of the League of Nations . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , one odd coincidence must be noted : the ‘ banana-shaped object and characteristic illuminated sign ’ were apparently similarly described by an American journal , Saga . |
| 22 | ‘ Wearing a white beret in among Australians , New Zealanders and every type of nationality out there brought some great wolf whistles , which were naturally not received in the right manner . |
| 23 | ( In fact , sets right at the top of this range were only rarely included in the testing programme . ) |
| 24 | Their observations were only partially based on the fall in the number of cases brought before the courts . |
| 25 | Both men lived through the Depression , but Fraser 's depressions were only indirectly linked with the hardships of people he knew . |
| 26 | The fragmentation of the trade — the implications of which were only dimly perceived at the time — was to become of crucial importance later and will be looked at in more detail below . |
| 27 | This is particularly the case when critical attention is being focused on details of spoken language which were only ever intended by the speaker as ephemeral parts , relatively unimportant , of the working-out of what he wanted to say . |
| 28 | This is what so fascinated the European Film Award Jury ( which included myself ) — that conventional thinking about the Provos , the Ascendancy , religion , prostitution and homosexuality were so confidently challenged within the film 's quite conventional framework . |
| 29 | The trade unions have sustained the Labour party over all these years and Labour gave the trade unions the appalling powers which were so badly abused in the run-up to the 1979 election when , as we all know , the country was brought to its knees by a new strike almost every week . |
| 30 | Lee 's inclinations led in other directions , and he found it difficult to comprehend how men were so easily led by a woman . |