Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marion Howells and her daughter Kayleigh were asleep just a few feet from a window which was shattered by the blasts . |
| 2 | Ironically perhaps , supplies of some semiconductors which were popular only a few years ago seem to have completely dried up , whereas most valves of around 50 years ago are still available . |
| 3 | Or were these just a few isolated sadists ? |
| 4 | Were these really the good old days ? |
| 5 | These , were these really the earliest historians in our nation , as |
| 6 | The atrocities against people referred to in the letter were horrific yet the point you used to ‘ highlight ’ them was ‘ what man would want women or girls that had been raped ? ’ |
| 7 | I expect they were all much the same . |
| 8 | The way it was done , with absolutely no warning , was traumatic for the staff and startling for its subscribers , of whom there were well over a million . |
| 9 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 10 | LEFT Home computers were unheard-of only a couple of decades ago ; now they have become routine magic' . |
| 11 | ‘ I was in agony earlier in the week ; my eyes were stuck together every morning ! |
| 12 | If this were true then the fact of having to report the indicators may encourage managers to achieve their targets . |
| 13 | It was eight o'clock the following morning when Ben came back from the town . |
| 14 | The Truman administration was widely condemned for allowing the " fall " of China , although , as Secretary of State Dean Acheson pointed out , there was little more the US could do for Chiang — short of direct intervention by US forces in the civil war . |
| 15 | DURING the months of March , April and May , while at Verdun the Germans were painfully inching forward towards the summits of Le Mort Homme and Côte 304 , in the world outside there was little enough the belligerents could find of positive comfort . |
| 16 | Yes , you you 've got to extend the route , well of course you 've got to put up , trolley poles every for about forty yards and then of course there was two lengths of trolley wire that had to go because as you know trolley buses used to have two arms , positive and negative supply and er , of course the bus had to come back er alongside the premiu the outward route , it come on , so you had four wires up there and the cost of copper wire was terrific so the motor buses were developed and we expenim experimented with the buses on , on extensions mainly but when the extensions were finished we then begradged because trolley wires were then beginning to wear out , rather than replace them they would convert a trolley route into a bus route , and erm because the erm , there was a lot of people hated to see the demise of the trolley buses because they were so clean and silent and the buses came , you got the deal sloke and lumbering of the old engines , that a lot of people hated to see the trolley buses go but cos that was the , the reason that they went . |
| 17 | Was that just a shadow by the house , or was someone hiding there , watching her ? |
| 18 | But erm did that have a message , or was that just a fun thing for you to do ? |
| 19 | Was that even a tear in his eye ? |
| 20 | How often did she get that , was that once a week ? |
| 21 | Was that quite a kind of regular thing ? |
| 22 | Rather it suggests that intercourse was normal once a couple began to " keep company " and considered each other " promised " . |
| 23 | Now , now you were saying before your father er was unemployed quite a lot of the time during your childhood erm did he actually get any Unemployment Benefit while he was on the dole ? |
| 24 | Was this then the moment to come clean , he wondered ? |
| 25 | Oh was this quite a usual thing for |
| 26 | And was this quite a well paid job ? |
| 27 | Was this quite a common thing for the lads in the to do things like this ? |
| 28 | It was nearly four in the morning by now , and Boy was ready to sleep ; not exhausted , but content , knowing that the night was perfect just the way it was . |
| 29 | If the actor was real then the film was real and it worked . |
| 30 | About three months before the actual event took place all leave was cancelled , even 24 hour passes , and Bomber Command was operational nearly every night , bad weather or good . |