Example sentences of "[conj] [was/were] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were failing to recognize or were positively discounting the rights of those dissenting from their particular views of public order , and subjecting that dissent to the full coercion of the state . |
| 2 | Most of the programs Carter proposed either were never passed or were drastically rewritten by Congress . ’ |
| 3 | At times I feel a wee bit guilty having returned home to Scotland all in one piece , when so many of my friends have died or were badly injured . |
| 4 | Of the opposing parties , a score of men lost their lives or were badly hurt on each side . |
| 5 | In about half the countries in the world governments had imprisoned people for their beliefs , while more than 100 governments had resorted to torture or the maltreatment of prisoners ; thousands of people had " disappeared " or were extra-judicially executed in 29 countries , most notably in Sri Lanka , Brazil , El Salvador , Guatemala and Peru . |
| 6 | People unhappy with the Major government may have told interviewers they intended to vote for one of the opposition parties even though they had not made up their minds or were even leaning towards the Tories . |
| 7 | It appeared that the naval guns , about five or six miles back in the English Channel , were either trying to break another German attack or were just shelling the enemy positions ! |
| 8 | It seems probable that Kent imported material directly from the Frankish world ; Scandinavian imports to Kent may have come directly or were also channelled through Francia . |
| 9 | At first I was not aware that all the crews in the PFF had been selected by their Groups and , in the main , were either second tour volunteers or were well advanced on their first tour . |
| 10 | Transcript concentrations for genes in that deleted DNA were assessed by hybridization with various probes ( Figure 1 ) , which either overlapped the deleted zone ( SE 162 , HE 143 ) or were completely included thereby ( ND4 , cytochrome b ) . |
| 11 | Much of this time could be wasted while children awaited the teacher 's attention or were simply distracted . |
| 12 | If it exists at all , their efforts must be going unrecognised , or have been rendered inoperative , or were never activated in the first place . |
| 13 | In 1712 the Goldsmiths , finding themselves responsible for yearly payments not only to the charities which they supported or were still required to pay for but also to the many hundreds of the Company 's annuities over the years 1695–1709 , resolved to mortgage their properties . |
| 14 | Verderers might also be removed from office on a report by the Justice of the Forest to the Chancery that they were incapacitated by old age or sickness , or occupied with other duties , or were insufficiently qualified in that they held no land within the forest and did not dwell there , or had committed or connived at trespasses of vert or venison , or had become a paid officer of the forest , or , in one case , had ‘ entered the priestly order ’ . |
| 15 | Japan in particular has been particularly conscious of the devastating effect of mercury poisoning after hundreds of Japanese died or were permanently crippled in the 1950s after exposure to mercury-contaminated fish . |
| 16 | ‘ We do n't know whether the Iraqi planes strayed off course or were deliberately challenging the flying ban , ’ he said on CBS television . |
| 17 | The language used does , in our opinion , justify an approach that would hold the mortgagee prima facie entitled to recover or retain the full amount of its actual costs , charges and expenses ; but the language leaves open , in our opinion , the right of the mortgagor to have excluded any costs , charges and expenses that were incurred in bad faith or were unreasonably incurred or were unreasonable in amount . |
| 18 | Any dispositions of property or payments made by the bankrupt between the date of the presentation of the bankruptcy petition and the vesting of his assets in his trustee are void except to the extent that they were made with the consent of the court or were subsequently ratified by the court ( s 284(1)-(3) ) . |
| 19 | Normally , married women only applied for re-admission to the union and thus to the trade ( which was not granted automatically ) when their husbands had either died or were severely incapacitated . |
| 20 | The departing partners either decided for themselves that they were uncomfortable with the new management style or were gently helped on their way . |
| 21 | Whether they died naturally or were ritually murdered they were cremated , and then buried at the centre of a great mound . |
| 22 | Whether they died naturally or were ritually murdered they were cremated , and then buried at the centre of a great mound . |
| 23 | ‘ … I became fretful , & timorous , & a tell-tale — & the School-boys drove me from play , & were always tormenting me — & hence I took no pleasure in boyish sports . ’ |
| 24 | It looked quite good with Crombies & trilbies & was sometimes lacquered . |
| 25 | There are two provisos as follows : ( 1 ) execution will not issue against either property or persons without leave of the court where the proceedings have been brought against the firm by one of its members or by another firm having partners in common with the firm against which or against the partners of which execution is sought ; ( 2 ) execution will not issue against a partner if he is out of the jurisdiction at the date when the proceedings were commenced unless he has acknowledged service or was duly served within the jurisdiction as a partner or outside the jurisdiction after leave had been obtained to so serve him . |
| 26 | In the old popular court , the suitors declared the law and gave judgement , or else passed judgement over to God by making one of the parties submit to an ordeal : to being thrown into a pool , for instance , or made to grasp a red-hot iron ; if he sank , or was soon healed , he was innocent ; otherwise , he was guilty . |
| 27 | In the nineteen sixties an awful lot of er of stuff went , er or was just allowed to er to get into bad repair , and of course er B R were n't terribly interested so they just abandoned it . |
| 28 | In the event the party 's net loss of around 200 seats was , or was successfully presented as being , better than expected . |
| 29 | It remains a mystery whether this meant he retained hopes that some deal could be stitched up at the Conservative tables in the Members ' Dining Room , or was simply threatening to drown his sorrows . |
| 30 | Whether it was that in that heightened state I had a premonition of what was to follow , or was simply recalling Dennis 's corpse-like stupor in the next room , I felt a perverted thrill , as though I were desecrating the most holy altar of all . |