Example sentences of "were [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I I as far as we 're concerned er the when bit is if you were are available er now we could even put you on this Thursday . |
| 2 | but these were are all crumped and I do n't want clumsy ones cos you feel as though you 've got Doctor Marten 's or something on you know |
| 3 | However , in terms of the use of soft system analysis for everyday project work , were are some useful lessons to be learned from the FAOR experience . |
| 4 | slightly different material but substantially the same n nature same scale of development , I believe that we have a track record that shows that we were are tough and will continue to be tough I |
| 5 | But the the results for the ten percent were were better than is had nothing for me . |
| 6 | Well again er I would say conditions were were terrible as far as I was concerned , er a as far as tea breaks and what have you were concerned , you did n't have any what we would call official tea breaks , you simply took your chances and made a cup of tea and hid behind a bulkhead or whatever to drink this , er if you got caught by the foreman or the manager or somebody , then you were more or less bagged on the spot . |
| 7 | Erm you know any anyone we met and and spoke to I think some people held us in some kind of suspicion , but a lot of people were glad er to have the er you know have the company and erm that were were available to them . |
| 8 | They range I mean er the the er the er Prussian Austro-Prussian war of eighteen sixty six is is referred to as what the six weeks war and and erm the five , five weeks of that or or or whatever were were involved in peace negotiations . |
| 9 | But erm apologies for going back to the to the discussion er yesterday but it it 's merely just to remind you , picking up the point that Mr Potter 's just made , that that certainly as far as Selby District 's concerned that circumstances have changed very drastically since the situation of ten years ago when the er the structure plan policies were were first drawn up . |
| 10 | And Cathy was out working and her her her sons was were were all you know what I mean , they were all but e the father was n't working . |
| 11 | And did you think that the Germans were were bad or ? |
| 12 | Er , I then went back er back down the passageway er into the lounge , checked the kitchen checked that the rest of the firearms officers were were okay . |
| 13 | In 1806 Colquhoun thought there were were 910,000 in England and Wales of whom 800,000 were female . |
| 14 | Okay , so you felt , did n't trust them , they were were aware that you were n't trusting them . |
| 15 | Economists were being involved in the process of economic decision making in a manner which had been unknown previously , and most of them found this admission to the counsels of the influential and powerful to be very congenial . |
| 16 | But everyone still thought we were being stupid and wacky , so we 've given over . |
| 17 | But everyone still thought we were being stupid and wacky , so we 've given over . |
| 18 | At least they were being consistent ! |
| 19 | I mean there was , there was a wonderful Times cartoon , I do n't know if you saw it , of Yeltsin showing all the troubles he , he could n't control his government , there were economic problems , people were being nasty to him apparently as he was saying how do we manage and it turns out of course at the end , the final kick line is he 's talking about John Major 's situation . |
| 20 | " I knew you were being thoughtless , rather than mean . |
| 21 | The weight-conscious so often choose the most fattening dishes on the menu , in the mistaken idea that they were being virtuous . |
| 22 | And would , would the people they were being rough with know the difference ? |
| 23 | ‘ They were being steam-rollered . |
| 24 | The Collector looked at Mr Simmons as if he were being obtuse . |
| 25 | He said there was a great deal of consultation and investigation to be undertaken and the bus managers were being premature in their reaction . |
| 26 | ‘ Even I wondered sometimes whether we were being utopian . ’ |
| 27 | For example , in the story above , Mrs Glen may have jumped to the wrong conclusion but if you were Mrs Glen how would YOU feel if you were tired , your lesson had been disrupted by exams in the hall next door , several people in the class were being awkward , you get interrupted by an unhappy violin teacher moaning about his pupils not turning up on time and then you re-enter your classroom to find someone crawling under your desk with a handful of expensive musical instrument ? ! |
| 28 | Holograms are placed on real Microsoft products to distinguish them from fakes ; but they , too , were being mass-produced for counterfeiters by a university in China . |
| 29 | When I was in Rapeman , I ca n't say it really surprised me because I had been exposed to English people before , but I did n't think that people were being serious initially . |
| 30 | Yeah but of course if you were being serious you 'd have to ask him directly would n't you ? |