Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was even worse , the women were unofficially said to be better at it . |
| 2 | Accidents and injuries involving blood or other body fluids were widely believed to be under-reported . |
| 3 | This was the real fear behind the arguments about the declining calibre of the new county councillors compared with that of the magistrates of Quarter Sessions ( Dunbabin 1965 ; Dearlove 1979:Ch. 4 ) : ‘ democratic alterations were widely believed to be dangerous , and expected to lead to extravagance , inefficiency , or even rapacity and disorder ’ ( Dunbabin 1963:227 ) . |
| 4 | The most noteworthy consequences of such an attitude was that at the same time as growing numbers of Latin Americans , particularly young people , were looking to Marxism for some kind of solution , the orthodox Communist parties were widely perceived to be inert and impotent . |
| 5 | Speaking to the Empire State Black Arts and Cultural Festival in Albany , New York , on July 20 , Jeffries made statements which were widely considered to be racist and anti-semitic . |
| 6 | But it was always tempting to indulge in whatever small luxuries were available and people were constantly warned to be aware of the squanderbug . |
| 7 | Although his aunts had always been kind to him , Frankie tried his best not to like them because he knew they were only pretending to be nice . |
| 8 | Was it true ? she demanded of the silly girl : that she 'd run away from the boys when they were only trying to be friendly ? |
| 9 | They were only meant to be temporary , but humankind has barriers just like them in their own heads — permanent ones in most cases . |
| 10 | They were only meant to be temporary , to last ten years , so it 's a bit of a laugh . |
| 11 | In otder to minimise the influence of complications from the initial bleed , patients were only considered to be eligible for entry into the trial once they were stable with no evidence of any bleeding for five days and also no evidence of any other destabilising medical conditions ( such as septicaemia and renal failure ) . |
| 12 | Now my Lord it 's at the beginning of October things start to go wrong in erm and as it is pleaded on the first of October er , the plaintiffs were told the , in correspondence from the bank , that the financial terms that the finances that had been approved in principal , were only going to be available if security was offered in respect of a number of properties . |
| 13 | Marriage and the family were only thought to be relevant in considering young women 's careers , not young men 's . |
| 14 | ‘ They were only told to be careful , ’ the depute fiscal said . |
| 15 | The Smiths as far as I was concerned were obviously going to be massive , what-they-now-are . |
| 16 | Women were normally assumed to be dependent members of a family unit : daughters living at home before marriage ; wives of employed husbands ; or if unmarried , sheltered by parents or siblings . |
| 17 | These remarks reveal the irresistible appeal of the playful cat even in an era when felines were generally considered to be evil and dangerous , and were being widely persecuted . |
| 18 | Early approaches which saw the state as the' instrument' or tool of the dominant class , faithfully tending to its needs , were soon seen to be inadequate . |
| 19 | Specimens recovered from the sea floor showed that this ridge consists entirely of volcanic rocks , and similar ridges were soon found to be present beneath many of the oceans . |
| 20 | The first simple station at Cape Town , appropriate to the short lines of the mid-Victorian colony , were soon found to be inadequate when that city became , in effect , the gateway to a subcontinent . |
| 21 | Minutes were felt to be factors in these results , whereas in the Potteries hours , or even days at times , were hardly felt to be such factors . |
| 22 | ‘ We were always trying to be creative and to shock ! ’ |
| 23 | Max Jacob and Modigliani were always assumed to be good friends ; they had a great deal in common . |
| 24 | It all seemed too large , too over-provided-for to feed them and the stunted attendants , even if there were a few more of them than they 'd seen until now ( and they were always complaining about being short-staffed , anyway ) . |
| 25 | The enabling statute always , explicitly or implicitly , states , if X 1 , X 2 , X 3 exist you may or shall do Y. Yet , if X 1 , X 2 , and X 3 , and all the elements constituting them , were always held to be jurisdictional in a legal sense , the dividing line between review and appeal would be emasculated : the tribunal would have power to give only the right answer , this meaning the answer which accords with the view of the reviewing court . |
| 26 | Christopher Gill ( Member for Ludlow and a Midlands businessman ) , as has been mentioned in Chapter 6 , has concerned himself for a long time with what were once seen to be obscure constitutional issues of subsidiarity . |
| 27 | During the last decade or so a wide range of what were once considered to be mundane or esoteric problems concerning the English countryside have been thrust to the forefront of public attention by the apparently sudden and widespread increase in anxiety about ‘ the environment ’ . |
| 28 | These sick visits were genuinely meant to be helpful . |
| 29 | While the agreement of Aug. 27 deferred formal dissolution until the New Year , both leaders were still said to be optimistic on the Sept. 30 deadline for passage of federal laws to dissolve the federation and divide its powers and property . |
| 30 | However , the situation in 1986 differed as a whole from earlier examples of censorship ( as indicated above ) , to the extent that mere statements of protest were clearly going to be inadequate . |