Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] [noun] [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many Nonconformists , including here especially the Wesleyans , felt that the defence of Protestantism was now their concern . |
| 2 | With conventional treatment for the asthma ( a beclamethasone diproprionate inhaler ) the response to alcohol was greatly reduced , but experimentation with whisky showed that the asthmatic symptoms depended on the brand of whisky . |
| 3 | Stanyer sets a high standard , but the response from practitioners was scarcely more enthusiastic . |
| 4 | As president , however , he pursued a cautious policy , well aware that the majority of Americans were deeply suspicious of any involvements that might lead them into further wars . |
| 5 | Finally , of those informally admitted , the majority of women were no longer contributing to the running of the household . |
| 6 | Obviously many arts teachers are not entirely happy that the arts are examined at all , but in my interviews the majority of teachers were generally happier now that the new examination had replaced the old system — the most obvious benefit being the removal of the need to discriminate between the two former examinations . |
| 7 | The majority of payments were too small to replace the income lost from earnings and , therefore , were used to supplement other income , to buy goods for the home or saved for emergencies . |
| 8 | The majority of farmers were probably sceptical and decided not to invest in the system , because the Scientific Farming Machinery Co appears to have ceased trading a year or so after announcing their new gas injection equipment . |
| 9 | If I add that the majority of Cubists were formerly considered to be Fauves , I can demonstrate how far these young artists have come in a short time and the logic of their vision . |
| 10 | The majority of branches were still in existence , though without any co-ordinating machinery . |
| 11 | But the dramatic , large-scale industrial developments of the nineteenth century produced a markedly different form of society where the majority of workers were often recent immigrants from all corners of the land . |
| 12 | And , as in the greater everyday world , the majority of people were superficially happy . |
| 13 | The public meeting was held in August when the majority of people were away , I 'm afraid , Bill . |
| 14 | In terms of social contact , not only did clients in institutional settings receive only small amounts of contact from staff , the majority of people were never ever observed receiving contact from other clients . |
| 15 | In the key province of Ontario — which contained one-third of the country 's population — the majority in favour was so tiny as to give only a Pyrrhic victory to the supporters of the accord . |
| 16 | The ideology of environmentalism was cautiously optimistic about social amelioration and human progress . |
| 17 | But by the mid-nineteenth century the focus of interest in the treatises against masturbation was more clearly young people rather than adults , and there seems little doubt that this was connected with the redefinitions of adolescence . |
| 18 | It is all the more significant that while Anglo-papal relations at the formal level were not imperilled , the attitudes of Englishmen were more vulnerable to alienation as successive popes underwrote an unpopular king or unpopular crown policies . |
| 19 | The reduction in weight was partly achieved by using 1.5 to 2mm thickness leathers for the uppers , compared with the traditional 3mm . |
| 20 | The reduction in numbers was still startlingly small — for example , even after the convertibility crisis of 1947 had led to a further downward revision of the targets for 31 March 1948 , there were still 937,000 in uniform , supported by 350,000 in supplying industries . |
| 21 | The time when scruples about extrapolating from studies on animals to humans would have seemed absurd , because it was widely held that basic behavioural processes were common to all species and that the complexity of behaviour was simply a function of the capacity of the organism to learn , is long since past . |
| 22 | What was said tongue-in-cheek was received as confirmation of everything that had gone before : the Prince of Wales was seriously out of his tree . |
| 23 | ‘ The variety of work was much wider — I did a lot of work with business plans . |
| 24 | The variety of events were as ever absolutely astounding . |
| 25 | Events in Guatemala in 1954 set a vivid precedent and were a potent reminder that even a glance in the direction of Communism was more than the United States was prepared to countenance . |
| 26 | If the direction of change was already clear by the end of the 1970s , the pace of change accelerated dramatically in the early 1980s . |
| 27 | We referred to the 1992 NOP survey which indicated that 13,000,000 people wished to relocate to a rural area , and that this created a powerful demand which would be difficult to satisfy even if the provision of housing was completely unconstrained . |
| 28 | The change of subject was obviously welcome and Father Barnes was voluble on the subject of Harry . |
| 29 | Protests came from the men and the Northern Ireland Office assured them that the change of colour was solely because the black dye previously used was no longer manufactured . |
| 30 | But the change of attitude was also partly a result of changing attitudes towards children . |