Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clubs such as this were rather like workshops with the old pros as time-served tradesmen who expected the young apprentices to clean their boots and learn their trade . |
| 2 | In 1813–14 the English were back in Bayonne , this time as the besiegers , when the Duke of Wellington 's army drove Napoleon 's troops out of Spain and back within their own borders . |
| 3 | Only 1,781 were permanently on view . |
| 4 | Gandalf Technologies Inc , Ottawa , Ontario has signed a letter of intent to sell the majority of its shares in Gandalf Mobile Systems Inc to Geotek Industries Inc : the Canadian communications equipment supplier will retain a minority interest in the company , which today represents 3% of its revenue ; Gandalf also says that revenues for the fourth quarter ended Aprch 31 , 1993 were slightly below expectations and a modest loss is expected for the period — strong business in the UK were moderated by a weakening of sterling against the US dollar in the fourth quarter and lower than expected revenues in continental Europe and in other international markets also hit the figures . |
| 5 | In addition , complaints to electricity watchdog Offer in the first quarter of 1993 were down by 44pc compared with the same period of 1992 . |
| 6 | There were , however , other and less hopeful signs that the French were not in fact going to make any substantial concessions . |
| 7 | Today 's pre-tax profits for the nine months to September 30 were up by 56% to £1.03bn from £657m in the same period last year . |
| 8 | It seemed strange to me that many dead Germans we had come across in the built-up areas after leaving the landing beaches yesterday morning had no boots on , some were even minus socks . |
| 9 | Some were not without importance . |
| 10 | Some were still at school during the early 1980s when British manufacturing industry was being decimated and the service industries ' star began to rise . |
| 11 | If the British were not behind Khomeini , why would the BBC broadcast his strictures sermons ? |
| 12 | Suicide attempts ( ‘ Not that it was serious , ’ she told him , ‘ just attention-seeking ’ ) , anorexia , the odd abortion ( only one in her case , but she gave the impression this was well below average ) and messy affairs with married men . |
| 13 | This was n't for want of trying . |
| 14 | This was n't like love at all , this was n't what she felt when they kissed , or when he put his mouth behind her ear , or rubbed his hands over her stomach , or when , alone in her own bed she had imagined he was there with her . |
| 15 | And this was up by Bridge End and up |
| 16 | This was over in Gloucestershire , at Prescott Hill , home of the Bugatti Owners Club . |
| 17 | This was particularly for people who have not been in hospital , but who may have exactly the same sort of needs as the people who are the focus of the particular project . |
| 18 | This was shortly after Indonesia 's independence , when chaos racked the nation and Celebes was terrorized by the " Darul Islam " rebels , an Islamic fundamentalist group who succeeded in capturing the entire medical team and holding them hostage for eighteen months . |
| 19 | THIS WAS ON OF BERNARD 'S EARLY ATTEMPTS AT SELF-TIMING SHOTS . |
| 20 | This was not of course found at the scene , but it was probably a flat plastic box pack , smaller than a crush-proof cigarette-packet , with a single flush button depressed by the ball of the thumb to effect detonation . |
| 21 | Few who lived when the aristocratic rule of taste prevailed would have questioned Sir Henry Wotton 's definition in the previous century of ‘ Every Man 's proper Mansion House and Home ’ as ‘ the Theatre of his Hospitality , the Seat of Self Fruition , the comfortablest Part of his own Life , the noblest of his Son 's Inheritance , a kind of private Princedom ; nay , to the Possessors thereof , an Epitomy of the whole World ’ , although , on occasions , this was not of course the reality . |
| 22 | This was not for lack of punitive methods . |
| 23 | This was not without precedent in France ; Bordeaux , for example , operates a similar system . |
| 24 | This was not until mid-September , and Nigel , I and two of his colleagues foregathered in the turbine house for the big switch-on . |
| 25 | This was not in fact true . |
| 26 | Under the legislation this was not in fact required ( only the Boards as a whole were required to break even ‘ taking one year with another ’ ) , but Citrine and his senior colleagues believed that it was a desirable principle that each Board should break even , and within a few years of nationalisation this was also tacitly accepted by the Boards . |
| 27 | This was not by drama , but by being around , and by being himself , and by an infectious enthusiasm . |
| 28 | The Independent Companies had never taken a prisoner , although this was not from want of trying . |
| 29 | But this was not before State subsidies , both direct and indirect , had first fuelled and then maintained a remarkable period of private development . |
| 30 | This was partly for ease of administration by the development officers who had to take into account the cost of all the services received by the elderly person when designing a package of care , but primarily because this was a new initiative : by enabling the development officers to take on difficult and complex cases without being unduly restricted by considerations of cost , it was hoped to test the limits to this form of community care . |