Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dundee worked hard for and equaliser and were eventually rewarded mid-way through the second half when Paul Barnett ( Dundee Kingsway Circus ) found the back of the net . |
| 2 | Many lines of thought were eventually brought together in the 454 folio pages of Bishop Wilkins 's Essay Towards a Real Character and Philosophical Language , which Slaughter deems a monument to that time ‘ when western Europe entered upon the early modern period of its specialised scientific and technical development ’ . |
| 3 | Such questions occupied developmental research workers for a long while , and their results were eventually pulled together in a number of reviews , such as that by Bettye Caldwell . |
| 4 | But even diaries of terror , such as have been published from the records of survivors or victims of totalitarian regimes , were rarely written simply for the author to look back on in years to come — for European Jews there was rarely much hope of any future . |
| 5 | Would-be actors and actresses were rarely taken seriously by the Movement . |
| 6 | Demonstrating fishermen were fiercely criticised yesterday by the fisheries minister , David Curry , who told them not to resume protests against cheap imports . |
| 7 | On some vital decisions — for example , the withdrawal from NATO — ministers were only informed collectively after the fact . |
| 8 | There was , too , something unaccountable about Richard — perhaps the same wilfulness that induced him to live offshore although his marriage was in a perilous state — which attracted him to Pratts because celebrations were only held there for the death of a king or queen . |
| 9 | As built by Franklin the outer stumps were so slanted away from the middle that the balls were only precariously balanced . |
| 10 | The pro-Stuart exiles were greatly strengthened early in the new reign by the arrival of two formerly powerful new allies . |
| 11 | We were greatly helped soon after the opening of the Philharmonie when Jochum came to conduct a concert . |
| 12 | In the late 1960s and early 1970s the activities of the CNAA were obviously related closely to the complex developments of the polytechnics . |
| 13 | By the eighteenth century salutes were normally given merely by the firing of guns , not by the more humiliating lowering of the flag or striking of sails . |
| 14 | Prior to 1974 , hospital accounts were generally maintained only on the traditional income and expenditure account basis which showed only a ‘ subjective ’ analysis of expenditure ( ie salaries for doctors , salaries for nurses , expenditure on drugs , etc ) . |
| 15 | By then they were generally known simply as the Dutch breed and were found only on the east coast of England . |
| 16 | The great German constitutionalist , Heinrich Triepel , writing in 1906 , looked back on nearly forty years of developments within the German Empire and explained how the early guarantees that the Empire would remain decentralised were soon swept away in the flood of new laws , most of them imposed by Prussian ministries and conforming to Prussian practices . |
| 17 | But the specific features and structural characteristics of the German socio-political culture in the short-lived and ill-fated nation-state , which conditioned the manufacture and appeal of the extraordinary ‘ Hitler myth ’ , were largely swept away in the whirlpool of change arising from total defeat , and were completely banished in the process of long-term change deriving from post-war reconstruction . |
| 18 | The reason why this rebellion was successful was in large measure due to the allegiance which the King was able to command from a people who were already bound together by a common language , system of law and form of government . |
| 19 | News of this discovery had travelled quickly to the wives of the seven other fishermen , and Elisabeth saw that they were already grouped together on the shore . |
| 20 | These were usually called early in the morning to ensure that the other passengers were not disturbed . |
| 21 | Three pound notes were usually left discreetly on the table after tea . |
| 22 | But she had a sudden change of heart and the pair were yesterday perched together for the first time . |
| 23 | These tough animals , who live on the moors year round , were once used extensively in the coal mines . |
| 24 | Indeed these immense powers were once criticised sharply in a pamphlet entitled ‘ The Permanent Coup d'Etat ’ by a young socialist deputé in the 1960s , François Mitterrand . |
| 25 | The carriages were once coupled together on the Merstone to Ventnor West branch line , but were sold to become seaside chalets in 1938 . |
| 26 | The carriages were once coupled together on the Merstone to Ventnor West branch line , but were sold to become seaside chalets in 1938 . |
| 27 | Her birthday presents were still piled neatly on the chair in the corner , and her cards stood on the top of the dressing-table . |
| 28 | Seven were still detained yesterday after the drama at the new council-run Waveney Valley pool in Bungay , Suffolk . |
| 29 | Ice-houses in Britain date from the seventeenth century , and many of the great houses had private ice-houses built in their grounds before the advent of refrigeration — some were still used well into the present century . |
| 30 | The team were still wrapped together in the comfort zone of a four-year period when each had cosseted and protected the other . |