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 . |