Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , it went well enough , and the period when they were especially vulnerable passed without assault . |
| 2 | The troops comprising this army were largely those brought by rail from the area of the eastern fortresses , and their designated task was the defence of Paris . |
| 3 | Then as he turned towards her the overhead lights that she had switched on to look through her dresses shone directly onto his face and she noticed how pale and drawn he looked , lines that were usually unnoticeable etched between nose and mouth , eyes almost feverishly bright . |
| 4 | THREE Glasgow men who brought hashish worth £264,000 at street prices into Spain from Morocco were yesterday each jailed in Madrid for four years . |
| 5 | W. E. H. Lecky in his History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe said ‘ Amusements that were once universal passed from the women to the men , from the upper to the lower classes , from the virtuous to the vicious , until at last the Legislature interposed to suppress them . ’ |
| 6 | At all ages over 65 women are less likely to be married than men ; 78 per cent of all males aged 65 + were still married compared with 46 per cent of females . |
| 7 | They took the fish to an unaffected stretch of canal 150 yards away and realising bigger fish were still distressed returned on Thurday to finish the job . |
| 8 | The streets of Al Ain and the highway were still half covered in drifts of sand . |
| 9 | The fact that they were both half covered with the slimy grey Melanism-fluid did not have to matter . |
| 10 | The fastest prerecorded cylinders were probably those produced by the French Pathé company ; some of these are known to turn at over 200rpm . |
| 11 | This of course was a common point of view but none the less irritating because we were nearly all conscripted at this stage of the war and would have preferred to have been left alone to get on with our nice , comfortable civilian lives in peace . |
| 12 | Some of them were to become famous , like Brancusi , Gleizes , le Fauconnier , but most are now completely forgotten , such as Drouard , Doucet , Centore , Coustillier , Guiraud-Riviere and so on because they were nearly all killed in World War I. In my book I show some of their works because they were Modigliani 's everyday companions . |
| 13 | They were nearly all altered in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , then restored to their Medieval appearance in the nineteenth or twentieth . |
| 14 | Experience seemed to justify this view , for the period saw many indecisive encounters of this kind ; while the naval battles which produced some decisive result — Cape Passaro ( 1718 ) ; Hawke 's victory over the French Admiral Du Bois de la Motte ( 1744 ) ; Lagos and Quiberon Bay ( 1759 ) ; Rodney 's ‘ midnight chase ’ of the Spanish Admiral Langara in 1780 — were nearly all marked by a preponderance of strength on one side . |
| 15 | Cloth-finishing processes tended to be concentrated in towns and urbanised villages ; Wiltshire fulling mills were nearly all controlled by the clothiers . |
| 16 | The daughters of Charles the Cheesemonger were still very much around , however , and as the offspring of a man in trade and one who , despite his early death , had enjoyed quite a full working life , they were fairly well-breeched compared to the daughters of their Uncle John . |
| 17 | Under the classification of stocks which existed prior to January 1991 , fixed interest securities were virtually all classified as gamma or delta stocks . |
| 18 | They were indeed all united by a common sense of manual labour and exploitation , and increasingly by the common fate of wage-earning . |
| 19 | The ten years that had witnessed this transformation were precisely those occupied by Morrison as secretary of the newly-formed London Labour Party ( LLP ) . |
| 20 | His stays at or near civitates were relatively frequent compared with his predecessors ' . |
| 21 | Overall , although readers were well aware that their papers were relatively biased compared to television and although they rated television as much more useful for providing information about issues , they did not rate television much more useful in helping them decide how to vote . |
| 22 | My letters perhaps improve $these were chiefly those sent to Helen , Harry Hooton and Ian MacAlister ] , and perhaps indicate the line of my future efforts . |
| 23 | As we have already seen , a boy might not have got beyond typesetting at an equivalent stage either , nor did he automatically get much further anyway ; but the girls were almost all set to handsetting for the firm once they were competent at it . |
| 24 | The earlier materials were almost all produced for television broadcast as well as classroom use . |
| 25 | His numerous legs , which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk , waved helplessly before his eyes . |
| 26 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 27 | The situation was vastly different compared with the high-inflation 1970s . |
| 28 | Any puff of smoke ejected was so foul-smelling compared with the evocative aroma of a log fire . |
| 29 | erm And erm when he came back after the war , he actually was so much involved on the parliamentarian side he had to leave Oxford during the war , but when he came back he built a school in the city which was actually in the Guildhall courtyard , it was built round the courtyard , and that remained a free school , for the city 's boys right up to the end of the 19th century . |
| 30 | Interestingly , in masers , the first electromagnetic wave devices for which equations of the Lorenz type were developed , the problem was that y " in the then best-available cavities was so large compared to y and I " that 2C ( which is in this limit ) was again impossibly high . |