Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A broad middle section of self-employed tradesmen formed the backbone of this urban society , but nearly 50 per cent of those who were taxed were dependent on their wages and were likely to be reduced to poverty in times of depression . |
| 2 | There is not much evidence that real wages in Europe began to go up significantly until the later part of the 1860s , but even before then the general feeling that times were improving was unmistakable in the developed countries , the contrast with the disturbed and desperate 1830s and 1840s was palpable . |
| 3 | So I think you know we were all very ware aware of that of people that were had been active in the miner 's strike . |
| 4 | When at last he spoke , his voice was tight , fully realising that the respirators they were wearing were inadequate for most nerve gases . |
| 5 | Wood arrived at the conclusion that the compass error they were experiencing was opposite to the error they had found coming south over the Timor Sea , and decided he had to trust Darwin 's bearings implicitly . |
| 6 | Now that seems to me , that might induce er slightly might do , but I could I I think that , wha I what I thought you were saying was different from what you ended up saying and I 'm not sure which |
| 7 | The few AEs who were distracted were unsuited to their roles in any case . |
| 8 | JB : Just working alongside these people , and seeing them being involved in whatever it was they were doing was stimulating in a strange sort of way , and kept us on our toes . |
| 9 | They each believed that what they were doing was vital for the betterment of the world as each saw it and neither would give way to the other , or defer in any way to the other 's claimed priority in attention , preference or responsibility . |
| 10 | However , the evidence upon which basic standards were criticised was far from sound and the level of analysis about , for example , a core curriculum was low . |
| 11 | The rise in the number of rectal isolates of N gonorrhoeae in men reported for England and Wales in 1990 is not attributable to an increase in the number of reporting laboratories , and the marked shift in the male to female ratio of cases from which these isolates were obtained is unlikely to be caused by changes in the catchment population . |
| 12 | Elizabeth Mowbray gave a deep sigh as if the words that were to follow were unpleasing to her . |
| 13 | She was resting be thankful for Judith Chalmers |
| 14 | I 'll tell you the unkindest thing I know about him : he was caught being beastly to a woman at a party for no obvious reason . |
| 15 | The colour of the filthy dress she was wearing was indistinguishable from the deep brown of her skin . |
| 16 | The fact that it was not long after that similar if lesser welfare legislation was introduced is indicative of the public demand and that clerical socio-moral theory did not tally with the people 's experience of reality . |
| 17 | But it is particularly ironic that this body of teaching on to which Christian mysticism was grafted was élitist in its view of those to whom such knowledge was possible . |
| 18 | In his view , the minister 's responses to questions asked at the time the legislation was proposed were consistent with the interpretation that the words ‘ the expense incurred in or in connection with ’ meant that the provision of the benefit would produce a charge to tax on the additional or marginal cost only . |
| 19 | He said the traditional exercises I was doing were unimportant in comparison with the meditative disciplines I was experiencing whilst making music . |
| 20 | The crusades were preached by the official Church ; but the enthusiasm with which the preaching was greeted was due to a wide variety of emotions , of which zeal for a different doctrine from the pope 's was one of the most powerful . |
| 21 | That the fox was exhausted is questionable for it did gain the cover of the woods and in all probability survived . |
| 22 | The policeman to whom Leslie was handcuffed was impressed by the turn-out . |
| 23 | Although this procedure removes the contam-ination of the observer , it is far from clear to what extent adults are able to reconstruct the context of their previous linguistic encounters with children , and how far post hoc interpretations regarding what was said and what was meant are subject to distortion . |
| 24 | The agreement when it was signed was full of loopholes . |
| 25 | Sex discrimination in employment is a matter dealt with by European law , and the tribunal referred a number of questions to the European Court of Justice which held , inter alia , that the Order in Council under which the certificate was issued was inconsistent with a requirement of EC law that the right of men and women to equal treatment recognized by EC law should be effectively protected by national legal systems . |
| 26 | However , the supplementary benefit that he was receiving was deductible from the figure awarded as damages . |
| 27 | That no final accommodation between these diverse conceptions of the boundaries of English was achieved is clear from the re-emergence of precisely the same argument , but now within a much wider public domain , in 1981 . |
| 28 | The agenda was in every respect unreasonable for the time allowed and it is remarkable that what was achieved was possible at all . |