Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The findings from this were accepted both by Nether Wyresdale PC and Wyre BC as showing that there is a need for affordable housing in the village . |
| 2 | The gates to this were kept permanently locked but there was a less conspicuous entrance , hardly more than a mud road , amongst the trees a hundred yards along . |
| 3 | If all this were laid on with a trowel , the reader 's patience would quickly wear thin . |
| 4 | Following the report of its working group , recommendations concerning this were passed on to the newly appointed UKCC on its inception in July 1983 . |
| 5 | The aims of this were to find out if the prevalence of bowel symptoms is indeed increased in women after hysterectomy and those treated by cholecystectomy , using a random sample of the population and prospectively recorded data as well as questionnaire responses . |
| 6 | ‘ Places like this were set up for disenfranchised groups ’ , says Susannah Lopez , one of the two co-op members . |
| 7 | If this were carried out by candidates in examinations , what a boon it would be to those who have to mark the scripts ! |
| 8 | The implications of this were discussed almost entirely in relation to the release of land for housing , but it also had considerable implications for the tenure pattern of new housing . |
| 9 | Although communists were a nuisance it was fascist anti-semitism which caused the real headache ; if this were outlawed then the problem would be removed . |
| 10 | In any case , growth could never again be based on the expansion of domestic demand , even if this were to occur spontaneously , because , with imports cheap and British manufacturing industry weakened , the balance of payments , which is already in deficit , would rapidly widen to an intolerable extent . |
| 11 | The mathematical techniques for doing this were invented fairly recently , and , unlike most of those we have so far mentioned , were developed from scratch to solve a particular archaeological problem . |
| 12 | Well erm it 's a combination of both those factors er as I 've mentioned at the outset the development programme has moved ahead a little more slowly than we would wish , the main reasons for this were associated firstly with the delay in selecting equipment er and that took longer than our contractor ha had imagined . |
| 13 | Of all the Arab states touched by Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait , few were affected quite as deeply as Jordan . |
| 14 | Few were taken seriously as individuals in their own right , one exception being the painter , Prunella Clough . |
| 15 | Some firms have chosen not to seek audit registration , some were turned down , and a few have had registration withdrawn from them . |
| 16 | Already some were drifting away . |
| 17 | Some were hanging on the brambles and a few flat , wet clots were lying well out in open ground beyond the clump . |
| 18 | Some were constructed so that they would only move when a passing person activated a treadle of some sort so that the toy would suddenly spring into ‘ life ’ . |
| 19 | Some were pulsing regularly . |
| 20 | While not stated overtly by most interviewees , although some were asked specifically about this , there was a tendency to use the word ‘ friend ’ to signify a pre-heroin relationship , whereas phrases such as ‘ this guy I know ’ and ‘ a bloke who lives around the corner ’ were used to describe a post-heroin use relationship even though the user might be spending a great deal of time with that person on a daily basis . |
| 21 | ( There are only 169 UK authorities , so clearly some were using more than one approval service . ) |
| 22 | Some were dragged out of their cars and butchered by angry crowds in the street . |
| 23 | Some were tackled crushingly , some left breathless . |
| 24 | The Mayor and Corporation flapped about like mud skippers and some were swirled round by the eddies and then flung on to sprawling tree roots where they hung about like wet washing . |
| 25 | Some were sent especially for this purpose but they were also an important means of communication and often the back of the postcard is as interesting as the front . |
| 26 | Some were wheeling about in chairs , others reading beside some shady tree . |
| 27 | Some were running away from it . |
| 28 | Some were catapulted out of smashed windows , while others were trapped and had to be cut free . |
| 29 | Some were brought back from new and exotic lands simply as sources of amusement or sensation . |
| 30 | The animal skulls resting on the mantelpiece came from as far afield as Arizona and India , and some were brought back to be drawing subjects in more works of art |