Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The findings from this were accepted both by Nether Wyresdale PC and Wyre BC as showing that there is a need for affordable housing in the village . |
| 2 | The gates to this were kept permanently locked but there was a less conspicuous entrance , hardly more than a mud road , amongst the trees a hundred yards along . |
| 3 | If all this were laid on with a trowel , the reader 's patience would quickly wear thin . |
| 4 | Following the report of its working group , recommendations concerning this were passed on to the newly appointed UKCC on its inception in July 1983 . |
| 5 | The aims of this were to find out if the prevalence of bowel symptoms is indeed increased in women after hysterectomy and those treated by cholecystectomy , using a random sample of the population and prospectively recorded data as well as questionnaire responses . |
| 6 | ‘ Places like this were set up for disenfranchised groups ’ , says Susannah Lopez , one of the two co-op members . |
| 7 | If this were carried out by candidates in examinations , what a boon it would be to those who have to mark the scripts ! |
| 8 | The implications of this were discussed almost entirely in relation to the release of land for housing , but it also had considerable implications for the tenure pattern of new housing . |
| 9 | Although communists were a nuisance it was fascist anti-semitism which caused the real headache ; if this were outlawed then the problem would be removed . |
| 10 | In any case , growth could never again be based on the expansion of domestic demand , even if this were to occur spontaneously , because , with imports cheap and British manufacturing industry weakened , the balance of payments , which is already in deficit , would rapidly widen to an intolerable extent . |
| 11 | The mathematical techniques for doing this were invented fairly recently , and , unlike most of those we have so far mentioned , were developed from scratch to solve a particular archaeological problem . |
| 12 | Well erm it 's a combination of both those factors er as I 've mentioned at the outset the development programme has moved ahead a little more slowly than we would wish , the main reasons for this were associated firstly with the delay in selecting equipment er and that took longer than our contractor ha had imagined . |
| 13 | As the English were forced back , their archers belatedly came into action , but showered more arrows into the backs of their own troops than into Bruce 's . |
| 14 | The position of women is even worse : 8 per cent were paid below the legal minimum while over one-half were paid barely above it ( Winyard 1978 ) . |
| 15 | Twelve of the youngest were found still wrapped in the charred bones of their mothers ' arms . |
| 16 | The youngest were left behind . |
| 17 | By far the largest P-63 user was the USSR , in all 2,397 of the production run of 3,303 were delivered there between 1943 and 1945 . |
| 18 | The Crown officials of Sheriff and Procurator Fiscal were based there , as was the Courthouse . |
| 19 | Of all the Arab states touched by Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait , few were affected quite as deeply as Jordan . |
| 20 | Few were taken seriously as individuals in their own right , one exception being the painter , Prunella Clough . |
| 21 | The services in which the Company were interested were numbered thus : — |
| 22 | Of the companies traced , 40 have failed , another 22 were taken over and 22 are now quoted on Stock Exchange markets . |
| 23 | The French and British could not agree about what to do and the situation drifted ; the one thing which the French were determined not to have was a permanent British occupation . |
| 24 | The English , with no hope now of consummating the Rough Wooing , finally withdrew ; but the French were proving almost equally unwelcome , provoking fears among committed Protestant reformers that Scotland was to be swallowed up by yet another powerful nation , and this one Papist . |
| 25 | Resection specimens of colon and ileum from the abdominal operations at ages 22 and 30 were studied histologically . |
| 26 | But only a mere 30 were made up . |
| 27 | But only a mere 30 were made up . |
| 28 | Some firms have chosen not to seek audit registration , some were turned down , and a few have had registration withdrawn from them . |
| 29 | Already some were drifting away . |
| 30 | Some were hanging on the brambles and a few flat , wet clots were lying well out in open ground beyond the clump . |