Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When the hot tub craze swept through California in the late 1970s middle-aged Wesley Laroya and his wife Helen were quick to get in on the action . |
| 32 | Fares were harder to pick up in this area than in Covent Garden or Oxford Street , and more likely to prove unruly . |
| 33 | However , with regard to the follow-up of arrests , one of the research team was able to sit in on a Juvenile Case Referral Panel , which recommended whether juveniles should be cautioned , and another member made observations in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 34 | Helen was lovely to come back to , but by the same token it was a bigger wrench to leave her soft warm presence and venture into the inhospitable world outside . |
| 35 | Mistakes can be costly and the author recalls one scheme where the beneficiary of a right of way waited until a house purchaser was due to move in before exercising his rights , thus deliberately causing the maximum disruption to the developer . |
| 36 | Kurt was able to sign up without first enduring the humiliation of internment . |
| 37 | The former James Bond star got stagefright only weeks before the curtain was due to go up on the original West End show and made a shock exit . |
| 38 | ‘ If you wanted to find out how an astronaut 's body was likely to stand up to the strain of living on a very , very heavy planet , is there some way of testing it before actually visiting the planet ? ’ |
| 39 | The $420m a year that America has been getting to compensate it for the loss in sales of farm products to Spain and Portugal after they joined the Community was due to run out in 1990 . |
| 40 | And although Harris and Puddle were both run out in the space of 21 runs , there were no more hiccups as Wales swept to their first win over Dorset in six seasons . |
| 41 | Liverpool were content to hang on to their lead but manager Graeme Souness conceded : ‘ I said after Wednesday 's defeat by Spurs that we would play worse and win , and that was the case today . |
| 42 | But the plans came to nothing when council officers were unable to come up with the money to help host the event which runs from March 3–5 . |
| 43 | But while the Europeans were prepared to go along with an ultimatum to the Serbs that threatened bombing if there were more belligerency , they would not countenance lifting the arms embargo , which they believe would do more harm than good . |
| 44 | Every Londoner seemed to be out of doors : the stall-holders were busy making up for lost trade and the air was thick with savoury smells from taverns and cookshops . |
| 45 | The crew were all clinging on to the side of the trawler and the last men off , Billy and John took 'em They got hold of them by one leg and they pulled them off . |
| 46 | Philip was thankful to get out of the crowded waiting-room . |
| 47 | Word came that the Sirdar liked it and Garvin was obliged to pass on to Owen a note of approval from the Consul-General . |
| 48 | Milling was last capped back in 1988 but with Waringstown 's Alan Nelson already ruled out of the Kenya trip due to work commitments , must feature strongly in the selectors ' minds . |
| 49 | For funding reasons , health service membership of the teams was slow to build up in the early 1980s and key actors in the local health services were never entirely happy with the developmental role assigned to the CMHTs . |
| 50 | If the sense in which all behaviour was non-autonomous turned out to be the same as the sense in which abnormal behaviour is now understood to be so , then the same attitude to it would be appropriate . |
| 51 | The Newcastle-based steel fabricator and erector contracted to carry out the steelwork went into receivership early in the operation but fortunately Bone , Connel & Baxters of Motherwell was able to take over at short notice and , says Alan Muir , ‘ did a great job ’ . |
| 52 | Just as Wunis Abdulhadi was able to opt out among friends , but knew that in a conflict he could not walk down the street without danger of attack from Zuwaya , so ‘ the obligation to fight ’ arose from people 's perception that their opponents would assume the worst possible case — — that everyone who had a theoretical obligation to fight would do so . |
| 53 | The light genoa was stopped to the lifelines and the staysail was ready to send up through the forehatch . |
| 54 | Sam was apt to come out with explosive , inconsequential damnations which his class bore patiently , sympathetically . |
| 55 | At Limoges the Young King was free to go over to the attack . |
| 56 | Missionary Kate McBeth wrote : ‘ For a few years at first Joseph was afraid to come down upon the Nez Perce reserve — afraid of the surrounding whites and because of the many indictments against him — but this fear wore off . |
| 57 | Left : Fish of this size and quality were all grown on from 4–6 inch youngsters in only a year . |
| 58 | A psychological study ( Californian again ) once tried to explain why people were hard to tempt back to public transport . |
| 59 | Evidence suggests that working class wives were prepared to put up with occasional drinking bouts by their husbands and the physical abuse that sometimes accompanied them rather than lose the economic support normally provided . |
| 60 | It is easy to ‘ feed ’ a black hole in the early days of the Universe , when galaxies were first forming out of gas . |