Example sentences of "was [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the post-1868 years the rural — urban balance was shifting away from the countryside in the wake of rapid population increase and industrialization , although up to the Pacific War at least half the population continued to reside in small towns and villages , and there was little absolute fall in the rural population until the late 1930s . |
| 2 | Even so it was crowded , and there was little excess space . |
| 3 | Simon , in his answer , had indicated that there was little political activity between elections . |
| 4 | This was ostensibly to hide ‘ trade secrets ’ , although in practice there was little new development taking place . |
| 5 | Apart from Security , though , there was little good news in the figures for the non-telecom businesses . |
| 6 | Few of the postcrania were completely intact before the experiment began , but whether intact or broken , there was little additional breakage produced by the finer grades of sediment . |
| 7 | By the second year there was little noticeable change : the threats they feared the year before had not materialised , but neither had much progress been made except that the language of contracts replaced that of budgets and allocations . |
| 8 | No matter how hard the WRU tried to dress up the occasion with male voice choirs and star tenors , there was little genuine entertainment on offer . |
| 9 | Initially , the year was divided into the ten months March to December , the period midwinter to spring being left out because there was little agricultural work to be done then . |
| 10 | If there was still a profound cultural divide between the parties , related to the social collectivities which furnished their support , there was little corresponding clash of definite ‘ class projects ’ for social development . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm here to see Mr Gajdusek , ’ she added , but , apart from a flicker of recognition at the Gajdusek name , there was little other response either . |
| 12 | Happily there was little other traffic — and most of that appeared to be oxidizing in heaps at the bottom of the chasms either side of us . |
| 13 | There was little parental contact — and here the findings of Rowe and Lambert echo those of Thorpe , though different conclusions are drawn from them . |
| 14 | When the victim was an inoffensive law abiding citizen , therefore , or a constables who , by virtue of his training , is unlikely to respond to what the defendant was doing by committing a breach of the peace , there was little real likelihood of a breach of the peace , and no offence was committed , in spite of the defendant 's intolerably bullying behaviour . |
| 15 | Despite appearances of a " Leftward swing " after 1931 , or of a lessening of trade-union influence , there was little real change in the underlying gradualism and stolidity of the Labour Party . |
| 16 | As convoys of military cargo planes flew into Howard Air Force base all day on Tuesday , bringing the advance elements of the 82nd Airborne , there was little real surprise . |
| 17 | There was little real resistance . |
| 18 | Some items were in short supply , like tyres and petrol , and had to be rationed , but there was little real deprivation — and there was always the black market . |
| 19 | THERE was little immediate response to the tax cut at Torquay 's BMW dealership Chenhalls , despite a £2,000 reduction offered on the seven-series model . |
| 20 | A Department of Health spokesman said , however , there was little immediate hope that the dispute , now in its third week , would be resolved . |
| 21 | The referee had earlier issued four warnings and with players involved in their private feuds there was little constructive rugby . |
| 22 | 10,000 children died of it in 1859 , and from the 1870s until the turn of the century there was little downward trend in deaths . |
| 23 | In spare time — between politics and classics there was little spare time — he began to read a few books of theology . |
| 24 | After dinner there was little spare time before I made my way to Sunday School , held in St. Martin 's Boys ’ School . |
| 25 | There was little spare cash in the home , so real sacrifices must have been made for me . |
| 26 | There was little individual choice of coffin , linings or handles ; all was left to the aesthetic judgement of the undertaker , and the client was rarely asked to express his views . |
| 27 | For a few moments there was little apparent reaction . |
| 28 | The journalists were mainly concerned to please their readers , and although there were good factual accounts in the Independent and the Times Educational Supplement there was little serious discussion of ways in which a curriculum in English affects our ideas of national identity . |
| 29 | Some forestry experts also suggested that there was little practical help that could be offered . |
| 30 | Since there was little practical guidance available in the literature and most previous research had not been carried out under normal classroom conditions , we decided to enlist the help of a number of experienced teachers who were using ‘ collaborative approaches successfully . |