Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendants were presumably outside the class of people who were likely to have access to the information publicly . |
| 2 | But the country areas and particularly the West were overwhelmingly against the proposal . |
| 3 | Although the SIMM sockets ( eight in all , four with 1Mb SIMMs fitted ) were right over the back of the board , against the power supply , access to them was n't too bad . |
| 4 | On the other hand when the Goigama made money payments in return for services or labour it was always to people who were right outside the system such as shopkeepers or Tamil labourers hired on a casual basis . |
| 5 | ‘ In view of the fact she was a young girl and the lacerations were right across the cheek I decided she needed plastic surgery . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ In view of the fact she was a young girl and the lacerations were right across the cheek I decided she needed plastic surgery . ’ |
| 7 | Teacher : If you were right at the top of the tower would the people down below you look like ? |
| 8 | They were right at the top when doorman Cecil barred their way . |
| 9 | The they er even in the dining room you , you sort of , there were long tables , well when you came in as , as a student nurse you were right at the bottom of the table , and as you , you know , the second year , third year , fourth year , you gradually moved up and then the , the State Registered Nurses they all sat together . |
| 10 | Alan Clements , Trafalgar 's chairman , persistently repeated the company 's view that the accounts ‘ were right at the time they were published' , a view supported by David Jenkins , Touche 's partner in charge of the audit . |
| 11 | They were right on the bottom of the boat |
| 12 | We got a call saying we were right on the money last issue with the rumour that DEC will scrap up to 10,000 people on Monday December 7 , Pearl Harbor Day . |
| 13 | We passed through the col , with the main peak of Koitobos towering up to our right , and then suddenly we were right on the edge of the rim with the giant bowl of the crater itself spread out below us . |
| 14 | Pubs , clubs and sport were right down the fist . |
| 15 | It was n't we were right against the window , cold backs , I mean we were I was freezing ! |
| 16 | And that were right till the end of January . |
| 17 | Sailing along quite the thing and we were right down I du n no how far , if we were right in the middle of them or just on the edge of them , but we were not far from them . |
| 18 | Mattan and the yellow jersey were right in the middle of the pack as it peddled hard in the blistering heat . |
| 19 | And in the evening I looked for them , and then I saw them of course , I knew where they were and I thought quite longly we were right in the front . |
| 20 | And I I said , he said ooh yes , the two girls come the alley on their own this is the their birthday cake ma , and I really jumped I said , cos we were right in the front , I thought what the hell 's he doing ! but what they were dressed in and she said , so I said , oh yeah well I did n't like it that I do n't know what 's wrong cos all the time they did . |
| 21 | They 're gon na go in through that door the second it goes down , they were n't loitering at the end of the passage , they were right by the door were n't they ? |
| 22 | At the beginning of this century it was thought that atoms were rather like the planets orbiting the sun , with electrons ( particles of negative electricity ) orbiting around a central nucleus , which carried positive electricity . |
| 23 | They were rather like the red-bands or trusties in British prisons . |
| 24 | Equally , the solutions to the problems were rarely of the government 's devising . |
| 25 | As they were rarely in the office together , he found his orders constantly changing . |
| 26 | I simply thought I should warn you that they were effectively in a garret … |
| 27 | However , the overall left-right balance within the Folketing remained virtually unaltered since the gains by the SD were mostly at the expense of the Socialist People 's Party ( SF ) on the left , and the losses of the coalition parties were balanced by gains of 4.0 per cent and seven seats by the Liberals ( Venstre — Lib . ) . |
| 28 | Since the lawmakers were mostly of the creditor class , their attitude was to retain a statute by which they could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtor and his detention at their will . |
| 29 | " A small part , " 90 entire pennies and a few fragments , was recovered by the Scottish Exchequer and were mostly from the reign of Eadgar with others from Athelstan , Edmund , Eodred and Eadwig . |
| 30 | Think what sort of murders were most in the public eye at the period you want to write about , because there are fashions in murder . |