Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jeez , how on earth d' ya take a bath and how is your love life ’ were presumably part of the empathy process from Gerry and his audience almost comatose with voyeurism and in need of splints for drop-jaw . |
| 2 | Both were presumably tenants as Charles Ballinger still owned the mill up to the 1850s . |
| 3 | The general picture seems quite clear ; the families whose daughters entered the printing trade were Overwhelmingly ones where the father was in a manual trade , usually as a skilled worker . |
| 4 | The 415 were overwhelmingly clerics , professionals and intellectuals . |
| 5 | Hoffmann J. took the robust course of solving this problem on the basis that all the relevant facts were properly matters of judicial notice . |
| 6 | Farm enterprises were predominantly livestock based although around Oslo and Drammen most of the ploughable land was used for cereals and horticultural crops . |
| 7 | In 1982 , 6,737 farms were predominantly livestock rearing and fattening units . |
| 8 | Behind this passage may lie the assumption that labouring class poets were fundamentally impostors . |
| 9 | Consequently , when it came to deciding upon holiday locations , there were rarely arguments . |
| 10 | Golf employed a far larger number of professionals but these men were rarely tournament competitors . |
| 11 | For the law applied to smugglers , and they were rarely men of property . |
| 12 | Mr Kerr said the TEC 's private sector board members fell into two categories : some were senior employees of industrial companies with bases on Teesside , while others were effectively owner-managers with large equity stakes in their companies . |
| 13 | At the time it was found that a major drawback in dual-purpose cattle was that they often failed to breed true : the offspring tended towards either the beef or the dairy type of the breed 's dual-purpose spectrum , partly because of breeders ' preferences but partly , it was believed , because the dual-purpose breeds were effectively hybrids : if they had begun to show too great an emphasis on dairy characteristics , extreme beef sires were introduced to draw them back to their dual-purpose role , and likewise extreme dairy sires were used when they became too beefy . |
| 14 | Dockers and warehousemen were trying to drown the fire with what were effectively thimble-fulls of water . |
| 15 | They were effectively men but no longer inferior ones . |
| 16 | The defendants who manufactured similar valves and were effectively competitors of the plaintiff company offered work to the plaintiff 's employees on Sundays . |
| 17 | These were mostly Somalis and Sudanis . |
| 18 | The Italian side were mostly ninnies . |
| 19 | The ‘ friends ’ were mostly girls at work : she had to have those independently of Ken . |
| 20 | The nets , strangely , did n't produce many fish ( I reckon they were all round our boat ) and they were mostly leatherjackets . |
| 21 | Early oil engines were mostly semi-diesel engines and had to be started by heating the ‘ hot bulb ’ — part of the cylinder head — with a blowlamp . |
| 22 | They were mostly crews who had successfully completed one tour of operations ( 30 missions ) , so they were not only skilful but also lucky . |
| 23 | It was a bright little place where the customers were mostly seamen . |
| 24 | And what they did were mostly bills of the unpaid variety . |
| 25 | It was an obvious-looking deception , and should n't have had a hope in hell of working ; but the girls were mostly young and good-looking , and their prey were mostly out-of-towners , and as long as they kept shifting their ground the money kept on coming in . |
| 26 | They were mostly LTIs [ long-term inmates ] so I did n't see much of them . |
| 27 | They were mostly women and they were outside a fur shop called Naamen 's . |
| 28 | They were mostly things that had already reached the west . |
| 29 | Just before the war about a hundred thousand passengers flew from Britain to the Continent and they were mostly businessmen , not tourists . |
| 30 | He said he had been to a beauty contest where the audience were mostly farmers . |