Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chopra sensed the two women were together and within a kilometre of the castle . |
| 2 | Up till now , anyone who was away on holiday when an election was held lost the right to vote , and some people who were away because of their work lost their vote too . |
| 3 | At least the postbag was relatively light at the moment : so many people were away because of the holiday season that the normal deluge of correspondence had dried to a trickle . |
| 4 | He had lost his cheekiness now that they were indoors and under the eye of his wife . |
| 5 | The displays were exactly as for the vertical symmetry task , except that the monitor was rotated 90° clockwise . |
| 6 | There were seven bookings in an untidy game and Hoddle added : ‘ The problems tonight were totally because of the new laws of the game . |
| 7 | She says ; It is very important to have a memory of the time when people were here and to be able to record it in the hospital is very important . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe the best way of putting it is that if you were abroad and on the town , Con would find a licensed brothel where the girls all had health checks , while the riff-raff might sometimes take the risk of picking up a likely-looking tart in a bar . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's always some police by the Circus , ’ I knew they were there because of the Jewish population around the area — and the frequent Mosley British Fascist parades . |
| 10 | ‘ I think it 's time you were upstairs and in bed . ’ |
| 11 | When she spoke again it was slowly and with great emphasis . |
| 12 | And this was mostly because of old machine tools being tossed away . |
| 13 | There was a madness about and I could n't tell whether it was within or without me , or either or neither . |
| 14 | There would be trouble now , and it was all because of him . |
| 15 | It was some years before I actually tried to ride it , and that was all because of the kindness of Martin from Sunderland . |
| 16 | She confirmed what you had told me about Edouard being beaten up and said she was afraid it was all because of her . |
| 17 | If you were at Gatwick recently and wondered why all the planes were taking off and landing on the taxi-way , well it was all because of Rentokil Hygiene . |
| 18 | ‘ I know , in spite of the fact that we agreed not to discuss it , it was all because of what had happened in the past , was n't it ? ’ |
| 19 | The difference in costs between the sexes was less than for items except in the 65–84 groups , in which prescriptions for men were more expensive . |
| 20 | A spokesman for North Wales Police said it was at least heartening to note that the rate of increase of vehicle crime up to June this year was less than for the previous 12 months . |
| 21 | In the NIPPV group , mortality within 30 days was less than with the conventional treatment group : 1/26 vs 9/30 ( relative risk=0.13 , CI=0.02 to 0.95 , p=0.014 ) . |
| 22 | The swing from the Conservatives here of 5.21 per cent was less than in either nearby Gloucester ( 5.34 ) or Stroud ( 6.22 ) , where sitting members were candidates , and only a little more than Bath , where 4.95 per cent defeated a Cabinet minister . |
| 23 | Elizabeth , as a queen regnant , had fewer gentlemen of the Privy Chamber , and it may be that their influence was less than in the days of her father . |
| 24 | Although danger of mistake existed in the ‘ recognition ’ case it was less than in the identification case : Turnbull , above , at p.138 ; Byrne & others , unreported , April 11 , 1990 . |
| 25 | The absolute loss of population from the cores of Greater London , Greater Manchester and Merseyside was less than in the previous decade , but population growth is now firmly identified with smaller towns and accessible settlements in the countryside . |
| 26 | However , in 1993 the benefit from hedging was less than in 1992 as the gap between sterling interest rates and precious metal interest rates narrowed . |
| 27 | Oil pollution in the waters around Bahrain was less than before the war , the team reported , apparently as a result of reduced tanker traffic during the seven-month conflict . |
| 28 | Glucose absorption from RS-ORS was less than from HYPO-ORS and RP-ORS ( p<0.002 ) and of these , HYPO-ORS led to more glucose absorption than RP-ORS ( p= 0.002 ) . |
| 29 | Glucose absorption from HYPO-ORS was less than from RP-ORS and WHO-ORS ( p=0.03 ) . |
| 30 | The relative risk of major anomalies among babies born to exposed women was less than among babies born to non-exposed women . |