Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I settled for a quality pie inside the ground — they were temperature-controlled by a woman who stuck a fancy knitting needle in them all . |
| 2 | When it came to childraising , although they were libertarian towards the baby , they seemed conservative towards Phoebe 's needs : demand feeding and endless devotion seemed to be required of her . |
| 3 | So ground and air were dry with a touch of steel |
| 4 | By now his eyes were used to the darkness but he could make out very little . |
| 5 | She had to cross the road again to get back to their apartment ; now that her eyes were used to the darkness it seemed as bright as day out of doors , and her blue cotton dress incandescent white . |
| 6 | " The mills were hot and dusty , and we were used to the cold . |
| 7 | The staff were used to the rigours of war … |
| 8 | The inhabitants were used to the smell , which mixed in nicely with the odours from Deller 's soap factory and the mingled scents from the river . |
| 9 | They were used to the job . |
| 10 | Cronin and Macdonald were outstanding at the lineout , winning the ball almost at will , and the tourists also had a decided edge in the scrums . |
| 11 | Under the Wedgwood Savings Related Share Option Scheme , options were outstanding over a total of 13,974,414 Ordinary Shares at a price of 14.5p Sterling , exercisable under normal circumstances within the period of six months from 14 December 1995 ; over 2,351,041 Ordinary Shares at a price of 29p Sterling , exercisable under normal circumstances within a period of six months from 1 January 1997 or 1 January 1999 , depending on the savings period ; and over 4,896,200 Ordinary Shares at a price of 12.5p Sterling , exercisable under normal circumstances within a period of six months from 1 November 1997 or 1 November 1999 , depending on the savings period . |
| 12 | Compensation claims amounting to US$400,000,000 for property destroyed and looted during the invasion [ see p. 37706 ] were outstanding against the US government ; estimates of the number of civilians killed during the fighting varied from the official US figure of 220 civilian dead [ see p. 37181 ] through that of 320 ( with 3,000 wounded ) given by a human rights group , Physicians for Human Rights , to one as high as 4,000 dead . |
| 13 | In the Durham County veterans league championship Brian Howell , Derek Redfern , Dennis Hammond and Tom Horner were outstanding against the Bishop Auckland rink of T Walls , T Lambton , W Ogle and R Bedford . |
| 14 | Were you quite , you were friendly with the maids then , was it like |
| 15 | An increase in registrations for courses such as Presentation Skills , which were under-subscribed in the Autumn , was encouraging and suggested that staff were becoming more aware of the programme and that its reputation was growing . |
| 16 | Typhoid and cholera and , most common , tuberculosis were rampant throughout the population . |
| 17 | By the way , ’ added the WPC , ‘ I thought you were terrific at the conference yesterday . |
| 18 | He ruled that damages were due for the effects of surfactants but not for a small presence of phosphates . |
| 19 | I believe you were due for the afternoon off tomorrow . |
| 20 | Dr Schussler , who had a particular interest in physiology , considered that a number of diseases were due to a deficiency of one or more of these salts and thought that if a patient exhibited the symptoms of a remedy — for instance Natrum muriaticum — there was a deficiency of this salt in the patient 's body . |
| 21 | The pledges about post-war economic policy which were extracted from the government before Beveridge were due to the United States and the importance it attached to statements of economic war aims , which were incorporated in the Atlantic Charter and the Mutual Aid Agreement between the two countries . |
| 22 | The achievements of the Dorset industry , which must have been under very astute management , were due to the presence of Poole Harbour , where the pottery must have been crated and shipped for its journey on the western route with its useful points of entry , the Bristol Channel , the Dee and Mersey , the Solway Firth and the Clyde . |
| 23 | 5.18.1 If the Tenant shall fail to pay the rents or any other sum due under this Lease [ within [ 14 ] days of the date due ] whether formally demanded or not the Tenant shall pay to the Landlord Interest on the rents or other sum from the date when they were due to the date on which they are paid [ and such Interest shall be deemed to be rents due to the Landlord ] |
| 24 | The study was carried out on trees of greater than 30 cm girth at breast height and it was suggested that the differences between the sites were due to the soils , the podzols of Sepilok being less fertile than those at Kuala Lompat . |
| 25 | The three cases of misclassification of delirium were due to the time delay between the team and research assessments ; by the time of the second assessment , the delirium apparent at the first had substantially resolved to reveal an underlying depression or dementia , or both . |
| 26 | Mr Mulcahy said Dixons ' claim that its results were due to the downturn in the electrical market was untrue . |
| 27 | ‘ I suspect these wounds were due to the body being trampled in the fury of battle . ’ |
| 28 | At this point it was obvious that there were some shortcomings in the manner of carrying out the analysis , but these were due to the research nature of the project and the consequent inexperience of the project team . |
| 29 | Tables IV and V show that the changes in the VHAI in both groups were due to the improvement in most items included in the index . |
| 30 | The Governors wrote again , to say that they considered that the School 's present difficulties and deficit of £170 6 4d were due to the introduction of the previous Scheme ( by then only six years old ! ) and to the establishment of Higher Grade Schools in connection with Elementary Schools . |