Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Templar lands were declared to be lay fee and therefore forfeit to the crown on the dissolution of the Order ; any attempts to challenge this were soon quashed by writs of prohibition . |
| 2 | Though America 's economic hegemony ended 20 years ago , the consequences of this were little appreciated within America , for the country 's military and geopolitical power went unchallenged until 1989–91 , when its old enemy threw in the towel . |
| 3 | As one reflection of this , telephone calls about matters like this were occasionally terminated by the slamming down of the receiver , followed by the defiant expletives of ‘ old bag ’ , ‘ old cow ’ , or ‘ bastard ’ , which Manning 's ethnography shows is a common closing remark among disgruntled policemen ( 1977 , p. xiv ) . |
| 4 | Estates like this were often sold to the local authorities as packages — they were n't what they wanted , just what they got . |
| 5 | But less than a month later , John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger arrived at the Royal Court , and elegant , well-made drawing-room plays like this were supposedly consigned to the dustbin of theatrical history . |
| 6 | The English were well informed about the manoeuvres that had made him Emperor , and Charles II 's Poet Laureate , John Dryden , wrote a play about the struggle for the succession in Delhi . |
| 7 | The English were already noted for their addiction to beer — a luxury perhaps to the peasant , but a luxury very widely consumed . |
| 8 | In fact the English were almost outmanoeuvred by the French army . |
| 9 | The industrial revolution of the eighteenth century brought England into the ranks of major European powers , and although the English were somewhat detached from the affairs of the continent , and more concerned with imperial expansion overseas , the events of the French Revolution and the wars with Napoleonic France forced them to play an ever increasing role in Europe . |
| 10 | The English were poorly prepared for the renewal of the war . |
| 11 | What Pound did to English literature and British sensibilities does n't seem forgivable , and I really think that the English were more offended by Pound 's political obsessions than were the countrymen he ostensibly betrayed . |
| 12 | Effects of ip agents during ia saline were also compared by ANOVA with Newman-Kuels multigroup comparison . |
| 13 | Of those vessels , 53 were originally registered in Spain and flew the Spanish flag , but on various dates as from 1980 they were registered in the British register . |
| 14 | Mansell 's few were well armed with placards and banners demanding their hero stay with Williams . |
| 15 | Few were much convinced by the denials , and the proprietor , editor and staff of the People were quite naturally furious at this behaviour on the part of ‘ Honest Stanley ’ . |
| 16 | More and more men were thrown into the struggle on both sides ; even so , it was May before the French were completely cleared from the left bank of the Meuse . |
| 17 | The French were heavily engaged in Algeria . |
| 18 | Implementation of that policy , in Indo-China however , would depend upon France ; and after two years of war and in spite of some growing and ineffable optimism , the French were still looking for a purposeful Vietnam policy and had revealed not so much procrastination and missed opportunities as a sort of political paralysis . |
| 19 | The Waulsortian and other reefs of the Carboniferous were largely founded On bryozoans and algae . |
| 20 | Francis Pym 's dismissal from the office of Foreign Secretary was widely reported in advance during the 1983 general election ; the dismissals of Patrick Jenkin at Environment and Peter Rees at the Treasury in September 1985 were extensively trailed over the summer ; the same was true of Mr Biffen 's dismissal in June 1987 . |
| 21 | AT LEAST 10 people died and 30 were critically injured in a 130mph collision between a freight wagon and a passenger train yesterday . |
| 22 | The DHSS had known the landlords were overcrowding their hostels , sometimes cramming four or six men in a room , and some were even lodged in an asbestos shed . |
| 23 | Some were even made of pitch pine . |
| 24 | Some were even embodied in law , as well as in custom . |
| 25 | ‘ Some were even intimidated by the idea of interviewing a former sergeant-major because they seemed to think they were all Windsor Davies figures . ’ |
| 26 | The only difference was that the mortar bursts were further away than yesterday , some were even landing in the village . |
| 27 | Some were already serving in the Militia , the Territorial Army and the LMSR Army Supplementary Reserve Units ( RE ) : others volunteered who were not in these units and more were conscripted . |
| 28 | Some were closely linked to him through the goods and provisions which they supplied to the royal household . |
| 29 | It produced forecasts for various markets , and said those showed some were clearly earmarked for success in the future while others should be taken on only by those with a ‘ real taste for a challenge ’ . |
| 30 | Some were later exploited by Copernicus in his attempt to establish that the earth both turns on its axis and revolves around the sun . |