Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing men had said or written was to be trusted . |
| 2 | cars ) in London Road , Mitcham , when they met on temporary track where relaying was in progress . |
| 3 | Although caddying was in decline after 1950 ( the year trolleys are first recorded on the course ) , the Club considered engaging a new caddie master after his retirement , but it seems did not do so . |
| 4 | For the first episode , the house that crumbled was in a real North London street designated for demolition . |
| 5 | The most striking change that occurred was with regard to the parties ' respective attitudes towards Court–Country issues . |
| 6 | The prayer that occurred was in a small group and it was a prayer for power for the church . |
| 7 | Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction . |
| 8 | The radio was on , whatever it was that shrieked was at it full-blast , and from somewhere upstairs came music that sounded as if it proceeded from a violin . |
| 9 | The last time that happened was with an Irish judge in the 1830s . |
| 10 | Er all those that finished was in the finishing union , yeah . |
| 11 | The years that followed were in many respects his heyday . |
| 12 | Stalin was less interested in Korea and the type of state that developed was of idiosyncratic character , in some respects resembling the Soviet Union and in others the kind of communist party devised by Mao Tse-tung during the Yenan era . |
| 13 | Suddenly the only thing that mattered was to be home , safe , away from all this noise , this heat , the perpetual anguish . |
| 14 | Although conceding that manufactures were in many respects deserving of the " high encomiums " bestowed upon them , a pamphleteer of 1782 went on to remark : Scarcely are we fed , lodged , clothed , warmed , without sending multitudes to their grave . |
| 15 | The picture that emerged was of couples predominantly against the idea of adoption with contact . |
| 16 | However , in spite of having continually plundered Arabia through the centuries and taken thousands of its best horses , by the beginning of this century few of their descendants remained and those that did were in a very sorry state of deterioration . |
| 17 | The O'Donnells of Donegal had built a stone Tudor mansion on the site of a twelfth-century castle , and the walls that remained were of surprising elegance . |
| 18 | All that remained was for the Lord Chancellor by statutory instrument to appoint a day for s9 to come into effect . |
| 19 | But did you realize that dare was for you ? |
| 20 | This time he did n't miss , he shot past Stowell and United were on level terms , amazingly , they almost snatched the lead a minute later when a brilliant save by Stowell denied Simpson once again . |
| 21 | The time-consuming tasks of keeping families clean and fed were for the most part carried out with wholly inadequate equipment in depressing surroundings . |
| 22 | If labouring was to be perceived as a ‘ moral ’ activity , then young workers had to be persuaded to see ‘ meaning ’ in wage-earning . |
| 23 | There was an explicit determination to ensure that all course elements studied and assessed were at degree level , and there were criticisms of ‘ traditional ’ submissions . |
| 24 | Meanwhile the factory towns and the mines were not far off as they were in the South , and the northern peasant was used to a hard life ; he was not forced to stay on the land as a pauper , since employers and employed were in the same economic difficulties and regarded each other as of nearly the same status . |
| 25 | If taking were to be kept as the basis of the offence , it would be necessary to create a separate offence of dishonest retention or disposal in order to deal with these cases . |
| 26 | He thought compatibility and interests which could be shared and understood were of prime importance . |
| 27 | In evidence earlier this week Lord Aldington , 75 , formerly Brigadier Toby Lowe , said the first he had heard that the men , women and children sent back from the British-occupied zone of Austria had been tortured and massacred was from Count Tolstoy in 1979 . |
| 28 | The sexual relationship between the victim and accused was on occasions the focal point of the press coverage . |
| 29 | ‘ I mean that , when the client suggested giving our sales force a taste of the product they were selling , I had to put it all together at ultra-short notice — and the only way I managed to get my people to drop everything and come was by stressing how much I relied on each of them individually . |
| 30 | surveyor could not gain access to roof voids but concluded was in reasonable condition for its age . |