Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English were in for a shock . |
| 2 | Again , those two that were wrong were all over the place and not an effective sequence . |
| 3 | The other powers did n't like it — they wanted Britain to get out of Egypt — but so long as the fiction could be maintained that the British were there at the express request of the Egyptian sovereign , there was not much they could do about it . |
| 4 | Abuse , suggestions of courses of action for me to follow that are physically and technologically impossible were much to the fore . |
| 5 | She was under a duty to use the money to pay the gas bills ( cf. Hall , where the accused was not under a duty to use that money for that holiday ) . |
| 6 | Mrs Gotobed was downstairs in a room Carrie had not been into before ; a light , pretty drawing-room , all gilt chairs and mirrors . |
| 7 | Er they get rather sulky and offended to say the least , they get er , often they recruit academics and lawyers to say that the memories of abuse are fabricated , the memories of abuse they could n't really have happened because the people concerned were out of the country at the time and were on holiday anyway and er did n't even meet the family until the kid was eleven years old after it was sup and so on and so forth . |
| 8 | For the first time , a public debate began over whether doctors , in consultation with parents , had the right to terminate life because they believed that the life concerned was not worth the living . |
| 9 | According to a report in the Financial Times of Canada , the court ruled that the man concerned was not in the business of being a thief and so the cash he had stolen was not ‘ income ’ for the purposes of the law . |
| 10 | ‘ JTC has recognised the restrictions placed on juniors because of huge adult demand and the lack of affordable indoor tennis facilities , which meant that those which were available were usually beyond the reach of most families . ’ |
| 11 | As I sipped my coffee , I reflected once more than the Midland Irish were very like the English of the 1950s . |
| 12 | The advice available was well worth the cost of an entry ticket . |
| 13 | Prehistoric was still at the editing stage . |
| 14 | The wounded were still in the barn as I entered to get my rucksack . |
| 15 | Most of her work would be over by now ; Dizzy was out of the way , and the party was running under its own momentum . |
| 16 | Gentle was still on the other shore , part of her history ; irretrievable . |
| 17 | Only the lower bunk had been prepared for the night : the upper was still in the ceiling . |
| 18 | In 1979 Labour was obviously in a panic — that set the mood . |