Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [pron] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was always unrest along the Border line ; during the Scottish Wars of Independence , the English Civil War , religious wars , in fact most of the time ; and of course , if Border lairds were not involved in a national dispute , then there were always plenty of old scores to be settled to keep them gainfully employed . |
| 2 | Surprisingly there was still no organised training for new entries to the cutters but at that time of course there were still plenty of ex-service personnel available . |
| 3 | There were still plenty of ugly and unpleasant prisons attached to Courts of Requests outside London , like that at Kidderminster , a dungeon with an exercise yard of only twelve square feet . |
| 4 | This curious mingling of piety , enthusiasm and sadistic cruelty is recorded time and again in the vernacular literature of the age — sometimes naively , sometimes satirically , for there were evidently plenty of reflective men who saw the paradox , and pondered on it . |
| 5 | Mrs Joel said that the first year she did it she used almost all privet , as she was frightened of running out of material half way through and she knew there was always plenty of that around . |
| 6 | There was always lots of post-partying evidence . |
| 7 | There was certainly plenty of anti-Athenian feeling , for some Thessalians fighting for Athens at the battle of Tanagra in 457 ( p. 42 ) changed sides ( Thuc. i. 107 ; Diod. xi.79 ) . |