Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lord said : ‘ These young men were wrong to take the law into their own hands but the five years they were given was excessive . |
| 2 | Because of the lack of a pervasive craft history , since Japan incorporated advanced mechanisation and new technologies at a comparatively early stage in its development , the unions which were formed were unable to make a sharp separation among job groups a basis for organisation . |
| 3 | You said something interesting , which I did n't pick up there that er , you said that policy making presumably you were suggesting is male dominated |
| 4 | In talking of groups it soon became abundantly clear that the young lady to whom the remarks were addressed was mystified . |
| 5 | Where the allegation is that the person to whom the remarks were addressed was likely to form a given belief , it means ‘ likely to form ’ and not ‘ did form . ’ |
| 6 | The four double blind challenges that were done were negative and only 30% maintained remission for longer than 12 months indicating no influence of elimination diets on the duration of remission . |
| 7 | Although the perception that Phase 3 schools were under-resourced was widespread , the effectiveness of the PNP staffing enhancement was certainly not a consequence of numbers alone , any more than it is when schools are staffed at the conventional establishment figure . |
| 8 | The foundations upon which his life were built were intact . |
| 9 | A broad middle section of self-employed tradesmen formed the backbone of this urban society , but nearly 50 per cent of those who were taxed were dependent on their wages and were likely to be reduced to poverty in times of depression . |
| 10 | The recommendations of the Review are being implemented and a consideration of the basis upon which those recommendations were made is appropriate . |
| 11 | As a result , because the properties that were expropriated were modern commercial farms , the government has maintained the structure of production , but , unlike the organisation prior to the revolution , the workforce now has a say in administration . |
| 12 | The latter question has arisen where young girls have been invited to submit to acts in order to train their voice or to improve their breathing — unbeknown to them , the act which they were permitting was sexual intercourse . |
| 13 | What types of boats were used is hard to conceive , but they must have been small and of shallow draught . |
| 14 | Actual period aircraft , including B–17s and P–40s , were used were available . |
| 15 | There is not much evidence that real wages in Europe began to go up significantly until the later part of the 1860s , but even before then the general feeling that times were improving was unmistakable in the developed countries , the contrast with the disturbed and desperate 1830s and 1840s was palpable . |
| 16 | Although Hampshire Bus 's successor , Stagecoach , in what we were told was splendid entrepreneurial fashion doubled its money in a fortnight by selling the coach station , it still left the problem that some people wanted to travel by coach . |
| 17 | Much will depend on how it seeks to solve the long-running debate about merging income tax and the national insurance system ; whether benefits , including pensions , are to be universal or selective ; and , if selective , how the state is to deal with obligations to people who have been contributing for many years to what they were told was national insurance . |
| 18 | The only way in which such a procedure might be excused is if the societies from which the samples were drawn were homogeneous — an assumption which is hard to sustain . |
| 19 | So I think you know we were all very ware aware of that of people that were had been active in the miner 's strike . |
| 20 | Indeed the kinds of arguments that are mustered ( Jesus did not ordain women and that is a fact , the church has not ordained women and that is a fact , women in all societies have been subordinate to men and that is a fact ) become no arguments at all when we realize the context in which Jesus did what he did , when we know that the biological views on which Thomas Aquinas ' views were founded were false , and live in a world in which ( in our western societies at least ) women are coming to take their place as the equals of men . |
| 21 | Winchester 's position is , and has been since they first saw the copy notice , that the allegations in it were unfounded and that some or all of the factual material on which the allegations were based was inaccurate . |
| 22 | Winchester 's position is , and always has been , that the allegations in the intervention notice were unfounded and that some at least of the factual material on which the allegations were based was inaccurate . |
| 23 | When at last he spoke , his voice was tight , fully realising that the respirators they were wearing were inadequate for most nerve gases . |
| 24 | For many parents it is as though the child they were expecting is dead . |
| 25 | Wood arrived at the conclusion that the compass error they were experiencing was opposite to the error they had found coming south over the Timor Sea , and decided he had to trust Darwin 's bearings implicitly . |
| 26 | Now that seems to me , that might induce er slightly might do , but I could I I think that , wha I what I thought you were saying was different from what you ended up saying and I 'm not sure which |
| 27 | The few AEs who were distracted were unsuited to their roles in any case . |
| 28 | Paying public respect to eminent people is a good thing ; and using the names by which they were known is direct and refreshing . |
| 29 | Cos when he had that first kid , you know , when he moved here and I were asking be nice if you 'd had a a girl . |
| 30 | , What they were asking was impossible , but he would try . |