Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were 180 items already on the rationed list , including articles of clothing , shoes , basic household and consumer goods and domestic electrical appliances . |
| 2 | Addison Wesley our American college publisher as Michael mentioned th at the half-way stage their sales were eleven percent ahead of er , last year , and you may remember last year they had record sales and record profits and er they 're forecasting er something like fourteen percent a head by the year end in sales terms and they are expecting to maintain their their margins and last year was a very good margin indeed . |
| 3 | It were eleven acres there under one roof . |
| 4 | Boro were eight points behind after the first six seats and 12 in arrears two races later . |
| 5 | Though Minton did not begin until the class was all set up and working , the forcefulness of his example meant that at the end of the day there were eight Mintons instead of one . |
| 6 | The BASS course board found that the older non-traditional students were high risk especially in the over 35 age group . |
| 7 | In the South Western Board , for example , it was decided to centralise accounting functions , reducing billing costs by more than a quarter in the first eighteen months , and there were further economies subsequently through mechanisation and centralisation on their Plymouth accounting office . |
| 8 | He is prone to speak and write at one moment as though motives were transparently obvious , and at the next as though they were inscrutable mysteries far beyond the range of his competence . |
| 9 | They were light years away from each other . |
| 10 | There were empty stations all over the region . |
| 11 | Anyway , we do know that on the day he was murdered you were some distance away from Edinburgh , but it was a good pretext to arrest and detain you should you attempt to complain to your masters in London ! ’ |
| 12 | Some lectures were some way even from this loose definition of science : John Ruskin lectured on Verona and Italian art in 1870 , and Richard Westmacott , who was both a Royal Academician and FRS , on art five weeks later — but he talked particularly on the question of assembling and conserving the Greek sculpture in the British Museum . |
| 13 | The farmhouses are not so many as they were forty years ago by three fourths … |
| 14 | There were distinct continuities here between eugenics and the population politics developed in the statistical societies and the General Register Office from the 1830s . |
| 15 | There were similar scenes earlier in the year involving quarterback Jim Harbaugh . |
| 16 | I do n't think we could ever have made Caring for People work when the CPNs were here in the hospital and the social workers were 10 miles away in Retford . ’ |
| 17 | Possom Bourne drove them to victory in the Rally Of Indonesia … after four days and 400 kilometres they were six minutes ahead at the end |
| 18 | The two boys shared a bedroom , the spare room was our office , the boys were six years apart in age . |
| 19 | They were three towns away from the Mason . |
| 20 | Businessmen are feeling more confident than they were three months ago in 10 of the 14 countries covered by Dun & Bradstreet 's latest survey of sales expectations . |
| 21 | Owing to an archaic local by-law , which forbade the wearing of shorts in an industrial building at weekends , the changing rooms were three miles away at the Duck and Forceps public house . |
| 22 | There were three people only in the school : myself , the young man and my driver . |
| 23 | At one time there were fine frescoes inside by pupils of Giotto , but even these have gone . |
| 24 | " There were fine buildings all along the river , a long avenue of palm trees , perfectly straight , beautiful mosques and many beautiful houses . |
| 25 | Were these students once like him ? |
| 26 | The documents he mentions are those which now have in them the forged primatial passages , and the only question which arises is : were these passages already in them when Lanfranc wrote these words , or were they added later ? |
| 27 | ‘ And were these people still in your flat ? ’ |
| 28 | There were widely-spreading nets forever in need of mending , and small rough cafe 's where you could choose your own dishes in the kitchen , and many painters . |
| 29 | There were great discussions especially among show business and literary figures , about the legalization of pot . |
| 30 | They , like the plane , in later years , represented a special link in the canal line between the East Midlands and London , a line for which there were great hopes both at the time of construction at the beginning of the nineteenth century and of its rehabilitation at the end of the century . |