Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that ‘ official ’ criminals were overwhelmingly from the working class and were seen to be responding to the same forces that promoted socialist consciousness tended to favour at least a positive , if not heroic view of their activities . |
| 2 | to walk round the bread shelves twice and they were right on the bottom shelf when I eventually tracked them down and they had the hot cross buns on the shelves . |
| 3 | And we were right in the front row and that ruddy music she had ! |
| 4 | No doubt some of them were rather on the dreary side but that is not the full story by any means . |
| 5 | The GPs were as divided as they were independent , and being geographically isolated from each other were rather like the French peasants described by Marx ( 1953 ) as ‘ potatoes in a sack ’ . |
| 6 | Now er I could make a point here that when they introduced one man operated buses , they thought they were on to a new thing but one man operated buses were in this town before the war . |
| 7 | The trick of public relations , Branson discovered , was not to pretend to be something you were not , but simply to project what you were on to a larger canvas . |
| 8 | The day was faintly foggy ; lights were on on the tall hazy meccano sculptures of oil rigs moored in the Firth . |
| 9 | Lights were on in the primary school . |
| 10 | Various offices remained in the gift of the Lord Treasurer and the Chancellor of the Exchequer , but they were mostly of a subordinate kind . |
| 11 | Their homes were mostly in the traditional working-class districts of the city , whether the tenements of the Old Town and South Side , or the lower-built streets north of the New Town between Edinburgh and the port of Leith . |
| 12 | It had been written by a Syrian monk around 500 ad with the idea that contemplative monks were most like the highest orders of angels , closest to the Godhead in heaven . |
| 13 | The Syllabus of Errors of 1864 ( see p. 131 above ) and the Vatican Council demonstrated , by the very extremism of their rejection of everything that characterised the mid-nineteenth century , that they were entirely on the defensive . |
| 14 | When the storm broke they were literally in the front line , but they continued to stock The Satanic Verses and in many cases display it prominently . |
| 15 | Third , by contrast with a modern bureaucracy , the departments of medieval government were only to a small extent defined by areas in which they worked . |
| 16 | Sanatoria , popular by the end of the century , were only for the better-off , apart from some charitable foundations , and in any case had little effect . |
| 17 | You were only in the other room . |
| 18 | They did n't do many subjects together and were only in the same group for French and history . |
| 19 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 20 | The concentration and total amount of caecal and colonic SCFAs were less in the low fibre diet rats ( Table II , p= 0.001 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ We were together for a long time but we grew apart and we have both been working hard . ’ |
| 22 | On Sunday evening nearly all the apostles were together in the upper room where Jesus appeared to them . |
| 23 | They were together in the big cupboard behind the staff room , refilling the sugar bowls . |
| 24 | but you can do it because you know you can go back home as it were in to the other area . |
| 25 | ‘ Told you you were in for a nasty surprise , ’ Rex smirked awfully . |
| 26 | Whitton 's second , in the 38th minute , must have warned the crowd nearly 1,000 below the Recreation Ground 's 5,000 capacity that they were in for a dispiriting night . |
| 27 | He told them they were in for a terrific all singing , all dancing , all laughing evening in the company of a galaxy of West End stars , and he informed them , after a bow to the front row where the CO and his wife sat among the senior officers of the Battalion : |
| 28 | We were in for a long , rough passage , battling into the wind for seven hours or more . |
| 29 | Ken and Maggie were in for a long run . |
| 30 | The first outsiders were in for a real treat . |