Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the towns were on or near the coast and they exploited their site advantages , capitalizing on their access to sea routes and on the fertile soils of their hinterlands . |
| 2 | Is n't it more the case that it 's not so much what they 're trying to get away with , it 's just that how what was happening the peasants did see the world that they were in but with the Communist Party and the revolution that the idea is to change the way the peasants see the world and how they view themselves |
| 3 | For example , of all the spare-time activities reported by affluent workers and their wives in the few days before being interviewed 62 per cent were in or about the home itself . |
| 4 | The worst trouble was in and around the capital Yeravan ; Armenia declared itself independent in nineteen eighteen , but was annexed by the Soviet Union two years later . |
| 5 | For instance , it prevented people from being excluded from trade union membership and he denied that this clause was in because of the European Social Charter . |
| 6 | Nadim Bashir , defending , said Fulcher , of Spencerfield Crescent , Thorntree , Middlesbrough , now accepted his marriage was over but at the time of the incident there were problems over access to their children . |
| 7 | After the opera was over and during the pause when there is usually silence until the ballet begins , people kept on clapping all the time and shouting ‘ Bravo ’ ; now stopping , now beginning again and so on … |
| 8 | He was chattering away , dad was replying to him , he was up and down the steps , shuffling on the carpet and |
| 9 | When everyone was up and outside the school where it was hilly and rocky they would act out the resurrection scene , emphasising " Christ is risen " . |
| 10 | I was out and under the bonnet when I got stopped by this policeman . |
| 11 | Eva was out and up the steps before the other leader , greeting her deputy with an affectionate hug and kiss , much to the surprise of the man who was still climbing the steps . |