Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [was/were] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made one point with which I was in complete agreement — that to date there had been no positive selling of the merits or advantages of this treaty by its principal proponents . |
| 2 | O'Rourke 's voice was unruffled as ever , unmoved by the less than flattering reference to the Sixth Fleet , from which he was on temporary loan . |
| 3 | As political conditions in China became increasingly chaotic in the decade after World War I Aglen found his responsibilities becoming not only more onerous , but also more difficult to carry out without coming into conflict with one or other of the Chinese factions making demands upon him as custodian of revenues of which he was in sole charge . |
| 4 | Not only had many esoterics died there ( and he did n't enjoy the proximity of death unless he 'd been its bringer ) , but the Retreat was a passing place between the Fifth Dominion and the other four , including , of course , the home from which he was in permanent exile . |
| 5 | Of Stock Ghyll force Ambleside about which he was in high praise : |
| 6 | It was seldom she met someone with whom she was in religious accord . |
| 7 | Rory thought for a second Prentice was pretending , but the boy 's expression convinced him he was in real pain . |
| 8 | The recurrent topic is Hobbes , with whom he was in frequent contact by letter — Hobbes 's manuscripts , their prospects of publication , the emergence of Leviathan , and his attempts to argue with Hobbes as he wrote ; reported , as best he could , to Sheldon . |
| 9 | So , to revert to the events of 6 March 1093 , his first step was to seek the approval of those to whom he was in varying ways subject as abbot of Bec — the archbishop of Rouen , the duke of Normandy , and the monks of Bec . |
| 10 | Friends of the Earth proposes a dozen green taxes , three of which would directly affect the motorist , It calls for abolition of road tax , but for the price of petrol to be raised to what it was in real terms in 1975 . |
| 11 | Having reached this conclusion Marx and Engels then realized that if kinship was the system which organized primitive societies , then , kinship in these societies , had to be completely different from what it was in capitalist society . |
| 12 | In urban areas , the swing against Labour was half what it was in rural and mixed areas . |
| 13 | Despite the ‘ new technology ’ , the organization and ownership of the newspaper industry is little different from what it was in previous decades . |
| 14 | In 1983 , the swing away from Labour in rural and mixed areas was twice what it was in urban areas : not one rural constituency in the South of England was won by Labour . |
| 15 | 1pm The Commissioners told us we were at perfect liberty to go on shore when we pleased . ’ |