Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the infrastructural level , the highways and transport system of Israel , Gaza and the West Bank were developed in such a way that it became increasingly easy to drive from Israel direct to one of the West Bank Jewish settlements without passing through Arab population centres . |
| 2 | A couple of double spring mattresses were placed across half a dozen apple cases . |
| 3 | ( In this context it may be mentioned that in Athenian law courts it became the custom to have a clepsydra to ensure that most speeches were limited to half an hour . ) |
| 4 | Copious quantities of Champagne wine were consumed by such a large influx of visitors , enabling the vineyards to flourish and the vignerons to prosper , and leading to the export of both the wine and its reputation throughout the growing markets of Europe . |
| 5 | Articles of government were altered in such a way as to increase the range of governors ' overall responsibilities . |
| 6 | Lieberman and Michaels ( 1962 ) found that they could get reasonably accurate recognition of attitudes using short recording of sentences spoken in different ways , but that when the recordings were distorted in such a way that most acoustic information was removed ( e.g. the speech sounds , voice quality , loudness variations etc. ) leaving only the pitch information — that part traditionally equated with intonation — listeners ' ability to recognise the attitudes was seriously reduced . |
| 7 | The five oligonucleotides shown in Fig. 5 were designed in such a way that the two motifs GGGCCC and AAAAA are differentially separated . |
| 8 | The keys were organised in such a way to prevent the typist from typing too quickly and thereby prevent the mechanically-operated rods of the typewriter from sticking . |
| 9 | The problem is that the early lists of historic buildings were done at such a pace that they had to be assessed largely on the basis of their exteriors . |
| 10 | Unfortunately at the press conference our careful recommendations about the importance of Standard English were presented in such a way that many journalists came away with the false impression that we did not mind if children spoke dialect rather than Standard English . |
| 11 | The groups were selected in such a way that each should contain a fairly equal proportion of aristocrats , diplomats , artists , men of letters and distinguished academics . |
| 12 | Skilfully applied , these cuts were made in such a way as to protect the sectors ' long-term business-base stability . |
| 13 | Any mother would know if their daughters were lying over such a major thing . |
| 14 | In the mid-Eighties , when Bacons were selling for half a million dollars , he did it again by selling a Bacon Pope belonging to Dufferin for over $1 million . |
| 15 | Donna glanced at the other visitors , noticing how diverse an audience were drawn to such a building . |
| 16 | It was at one time said that statutes were drafted in such a way as to be intelligible only to lawyers . |
| 17 | Some of the defenders of the domestic load , such as Dennis Bellamy ( chairman of the Yorkshire Board ) , occasionally quoted cost and load data to justify their views , but these were based on such a biased sample of observations that it was difficult for any serious enquirer to accept them at face value . |
| 18 | Plus , the majority of the numbers were rigged in such a way that , what with lighting effects and special effects , they had to be the same length . |
| 19 | So if you were commenting on such a section as this , you would have a great deal of things to say on , just on the letter forms as they appear on the page . |
| 20 | Seeing his ideas — which were greeted with such a chill at first — take off , was a tremendous boost to the Prince of Wales . |
| 21 | However , to lay claim to the land , settlers were compelled in such a milieu to be seen to clear it of trees , so the result was ecologically undesirable . |
| 22 | Under the terms of this formula resources in the NHS were distributed in such a way as to favour areas of the country traditionally under-provided with services , such as the Trent region in the Midlands . |
| 23 | Whatever , the cops eventually moved on and the Englishman and I were spared the task of explaining what such an unlikely pair of lads as ourselves were doing with such a gleaming trophy . |
| 24 | Later research showed that they were in fact storehouses and workshops , attached to hut-dwelling communities during the first and second centuries AD : quernstones were found in such a cellar at Barns of Airlie , and a chamber in a Carlungie souterrain seems to have been used for both stone and metal working . |
| 25 | In reply to Lanark Road residents ’ objections , perhaps a good example of how carriageway reduction can simultaneously reduce traffic speed and volume is Niddrie Mains Road , where 4 lanes were reduced to 2 a couple of years ago . |
| 26 | Almost certainly if you were suffering from such an illness you would have other symptoms to indicate that you were unwell . |
| 27 | Blue whales are no longer hunted , but their numbers were depleted to such an extent in the past that present populations ( perhaps of only a few hundred individuals ) may be too small to recover . |
| 28 | On 5 May UK bank base rates were cut by half a point to 10% , but further falls in interest rates may have to wait until Germany begins to cut its rates . |
| 29 | There was a further easing of monetary policy on April 4 , 1991 , when interest rates were cut by half a percentage point to 11.5 per cent . |
| 30 | ‘ He is still angry at the two-week delay which occurred between the day he was tested and the way the results were announced in such a public manner . ’ |