Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Accordingly , A instructed B's watermen ( X ) not to man , service or tow barges belonging to C , an embargo which soon brought C 's business to a standstill as barges which were out on hire were not returned .
2 The group of the population which was most at risk was young children drinking locally produced milk .
3 ‘ But suggestions that the engine was down on power are completely wrong .
4 What was not in dispute was that major changes were under way .
5 To them , an approach to their daughter when she was still in mourning was ‘ indelicate ’ , a word he now heard from his mother .
6 That the farm opposite was still in use was obvious from the great mound of steaming manure in the middle of the courtyard .
7 The message that the big Merseyside plant was out on strike was conveyed to Don Peters at the EPC meeting .
8 After Pearl Harbor , US , British and other nationals with whose countries Japan was now at war were interned or repatriated .
9 The relation of this excess to the present study has a rather complicated history — with the excess near Sellafield , it originally suggested the population mixing hypothesis , but what was then in mind was the mixing connected with the nuclear industry ; an analogy with a new town was drawn .
10 ‘ I was round at Mother 's that night . ’
11 In fact both Eisenhower and Dulles privately accepted the absurdity of a European war if all that was truly at stake was the status of East Germany and Berlin .
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