Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their study of newly-wed couples , Mansfield and Collard found that most expected to be able to apply the contemporary idea that marriage should involve close psychological intimacy to their own circumstances , and many of the women especially were rather disappointed as a result . |
| 2 | As long ago as 1750 , Lord Hardwicke L.C. declared that it would be ‘ very mischievous ’ to seek to make one who was ‘ merely a witness ’ a party in order to obtain discovery ; even if he were properly examinable as a witness , his evidence could not be gathered in advance in this way . |
| 3 | Established internationals Gord MacKinnon and Pat Palmer represented the national team squad at the CRU 's recent three day planning meeting in Vancouver and were most supportive of a decision to implement fitness testing for all the country 's top players as an ongoing requirement . |
| 4 | As a ship 's food potatoes , with their high vitamin C content , were inadvertently responsible for an appreciable reduction in the incidence of that dreaded seaman 's disease scurvy . |
| 5 | He started off by pointing out that Rommel 's lines of communication , stretched out along the coast , were extremely vulnerable to a determined attack . |
| 6 | For instance it might be predicted that aspects of situations which were highly inconsistent with a pre-existing schema would be better recognised than relatively consistent aspects , but less well recalled . |
| 7 | In the event , the sterling balances were much less of a problem from London 's point of view than was commonly anticipated when the scale of their wartime accumulation was first discussed in the mid-1940s . |
| 8 | Structures like those built for Spurgeon and Parker were only two of a myriad of building enterprises entered into by various Nonconformist denominations . |
| 9 | Initially there were only two to a battalion , but as the weapon 's capabilities in defence and attack were realized , more and more were issued and soon whole units were armed with only these fast-firing automatic weapons . |
| 10 | The approaches made in 1759 by the Danish government to the United Provinces for the creation of a maritime union to defend neutral rights were only one of a series of proposals for some anti-British combination of this kind which culminated in the Armed Neutrality of 1780 . |
| 11 | Some respondents reported that a number of applications were only possible on a microcomputer . |
| 12 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |
| 13 | However , an agreement did not qualify for exemption if its beneficial effects were only indispensable within a national market . |
| 14 | It is questionable whether the spaying of cows was widely practised at that time , but it is well known that London dairymen were only interested in a continuous milk supply . |
| 15 | Unionists were only interested in a deal that would make Lloyd George 's capture public . |
| 16 | They also contacted Port Vale about Keith Houchen , but the Midlands club were only interested in a part-exchange deal . |
| 17 | He hoped that the people of the occupied territories were so desperate for an end to Israeli rule that they would respond to his overtures . |
| 18 | Hobbs did better than his soccer counterpart , Dixie Dean , whose goal-scoring achievements were so famous for a decade from 1927 . |
| 19 | Two doctors from a local department of public health were so concerned about an outbreak of gastroenteritis in a primary school , they decided to make further investigation . |
| 20 | ‘ We were so excited about a new life in a new house that we were drawn together again as friends and lovers and the Other Woman got left behind . ’ |
| 21 | In the same way that repression was less effective than twenty years earlier as an instrument of socio-political control against the anti-Francoist opposition , the spectres of the Republic and the Civil War were less useful as a means of holding the regime forces together . |
| 22 | This and his personal worries , which must have seemed without issue , were perhaps responsible for a certain reliance , though by no means dependence , on alcohol . |
| 23 | The policemen were especially outraged by a Criminal Court ruling linking Gilberto Molina , a former police commander , and some of his officials with the murders of two teenagers , the sons of Colombian parents , who had disappeared in January 1988 . |
| 24 | Indeed an even more striking feature of the results was that the individuals examined were especially high on a measure of ‘ ego strength ’ , indicating a greater than average resistance to mental breakdown : the finding is particularly interesting because the latter is usually very low in subjects who deviate markedly on the clinical scales of tests like the MMPI . |
| 25 | I walked out of the champagne tent in a dream or , rather , a nightmare and put two elderly customers , who were coming towards me and were obviously intent on a reviving glass or two , in peril as I blundered into them . |
| 26 | In the larger States contacts of this direct and relatively informal kind between ruler and ruled were obviously impossible on a large scale . |
| 27 | They were particularly anxious to avoid having ‘ topic ’ , in discourse study , treated as if it were somehow expressible by a simple noun phrase , as often happens in the treatment of sentential topics . |
| 28 | They were soon deep in a well-reasoned conversation about these , particularly as they related to young children growing up in the environment of strife . |
| 29 | The janissaries defied the sultan 's order and were soon involved in a struggle for power with the Turkish governor of Belgrade . |
| 30 | The realisation made her want to study the other woman closely , and , covertly , she was able to do so , as Marise and Faye were soon involved in a discussion of the modern Japanese sculpture exhibition which had recently opened at the art gallery . |