Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made a pre-tax operating loss of £398m , and restructuring took another £218m for a total pre-tax loss of £616m , up from a loss last time of £124m ; turnover fell 6% to £3,751m ; domestic sales and exports were each off 6% at £1,606m and £2,145m . |
| 2 | But Lili said there were few enough times when she got the chance really to dress up and she was going to now . |
| 3 | But in the end when he went back she was asleep , and he did n't wake her because there were few enough hours before dawn , and he had to get through a day — a series of days — that would put to the test the most dangerous set of manoeuvres he had ever conducted . |
| 4 | The government insisted that the northern guerrillas were Ethiopian Afar militias , created by the former regime of President Mengistu of Ethiopia , and seeking to " realize their dream of a greater Afaria " embracing the Afars of Ethiopia , Djibouti and Somalia . |
| 5 | The linchpins , after all , were such traditionally unsocialist ( or even anti-socialist ) policies as a very severe incomes policy , a move from direct to indirect taxation , and swingeing cuts in public expenditure in both 1976–7 and 1977–8 . |
| 6 | ‘ Christ , ’ breathed Billy , ‘ you were lucky there mate , that was a pretty big un' for a night tide , I heard it was a twenty seven footer . |
| 7 | Were these merely eddies in the mud on the bottom of the primeval seas or could they have been formed by living organisms ? |
| 8 | But one of the earlier findings which began to cause problems was that the sound of the letters , as well as the features , determined whether or not they were confused so B and D , for example , sound similar therefore they tended to be confused . |
| 9 | And I think we were all slightly sort of surprised that we could have this sort of effect . |
| 10 | Clare and Dawn , and former receptionist Angela Pelling ( who now works in the Transport Department with Hazel Thorpe ) were all previously hairdressers , but are agreed that they much prefer their work at Rentokil . |
| 11 | Her family were all up north , in Darlington , right at the other end of the country . |
| 12 | The followers of a charismatically inspired prophet may , for a while , feel and act as if they were all equally members of God 's elect , but if the community is to survive , the " routinization of charisma " , to use Weber 's term , always recreates a hierarchically ordered social structure . |
| 13 | It was horrible being this age when nobody else was ; they were all either adults or children . |
| 14 | Because I mind one night , just a few weeks before he left t'mill for good — and by gum he looked sick then , more like a shadow than the man he was before the war — well , we were all out wi ’ a lad as was getting married in a rush , you know . |
| 15 | They were all out order . |
| 16 | Local resources were probably exploited to satisfy the demand for wool , leather and wood , while spinning , weaving , fulling and possibly dyeing were all essentially part of the normal domestic scene . |
| 17 | The first sets a few months ago were well over £2000 which would put them out of the range of all private and a lot of charter boats . |
| 18 | ‘ Phil Sharpe were i n't side too , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Wolf shows how the areas in Mexico where there was considerable peasant agitation during the revolution , were those where farms were modernising and becoming more capitalist . |
| 20 | It were one o'clock Monday I went to pick her up . |
| 21 | Then it was there , the blurry light of the candles and the singing Happy Birthday and the big whoosh … and the clapping , and when the curtains were open again Benny saw the thin young man that her father had been shaking hands with . |
| 22 | Authors ' reply — Altogether 14 men in our study had microalbuminuria on both occasions and 298 were normoalbuminuric both times . |
| 23 | Planes were fuller so airline costs fell . |
| 24 | we were 3–1 down ut Macca and Newsome got us 1 point . |
| 25 | ‘ It was strange how Gary would often know things he had not been told . |
| 26 | It was strange how Hank had a way of withdrawing from one 's company at times , just as if he had forgotten one was there . |
| 27 | DeVore might have been lying when he said he had no motive in helping her , but he was right about Mach wanting her dead . |
| 28 | It was odd how glory could not be shared . |
| 29 | SAM the dog was asleep yesterday afternoon , slumbering testimony to yet another unlikely triumph . |
| 30 | It was eleven when Wexford got home . |