Example sentences of "were [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were respectable Home Counties middle class , but nothing special , nothing to brag about . |
| 2 | When the Fens was mainly marshland , people clustered on the small humps or islands of boulder clay which were dry point sites . |
| 3 | In Australia news of the split came at 3am Sydney time , and soon after talk-back radio shows were inviting comment from night-owl listeners . |
| 4 | I told you there were mini roast potatoes . |
| 5 | Equally , not all the big Healeys were Alpine Rally competitors or howling club racers , and British as the car was , the majority of the 17,700 or so MkIIIs that completed the series also went to the US , where the sun shone a bit more often . |
| 6 | Even stilled , the great pistons were ample evidence of the power it could unleash , driving it like the mighty wheels of a train . |
| 7 | The bloody attempt to kidnap Princess Anne on the Mall just yards from Buckingham Palace and the successful break-in to the Queen 's bedroom by an unemployed labourer , Michael Fagan were ample proof of the constant danger the royal family faced . |
| 8 | The Wimbledon Courts seem small and friendly when you 're actually in them , and the finals , though tense tennis were terrific tennis . |
| 9 | JR sent for the latest aged debt report , quickly extracted from it the top 20 customers and found what he now expected to find — that more than 80% ; of the total debts were due form these , although by number they amounted to considerably less than 20% ; of the total customer file . |
| 10 | The lodges and bridge were solid stone and flint classical , the stable early Victorian . |
| 11 | The tyres were solid rubber and the seats hard . |
| 12 | These were solid leather and weighed so much that , not surprisingly , we were allowed only a further 9lb each to include all essentials for the next six days and five nights . |
| 13 | And er when it come to a vote to try and get anything passed or changed the wee branches were solid voting for the national agreement . |
| 14 | The women were seated straight-backed on the edge of two big cane armchairs , and Robert , his back turned , was looking out of a high arched window . |
| 15 | The indications for reservoir surgery were ulcerative colitis in 20 patients and FAP in three . |
| 16 | On Sept. 6 President Fernando Collor de Mello ordered Justice Minister Bernardo Cabral to investigate charges by the human rights organization Amnesty International that death squads , some of them secretly operated by the police , were murdering street children . |
| 17 | Principal trading partners in 1989 were European Community countries and the United States . |
| 18 | Leeds were European Cup Winners ' Cup finalists in 1973 , European Cup finalists in 1975 and won the Old Fairs Cup in 1968 and 1971 . |
| 19 | Last year for the first time there were European dressage titles in two categories : Werth won the conventional Special , while Rothenberger took the freestyle . |
| 20 | I said that I had had rather more than that , and I referred to having had about 800 , the large majority of which were tear-out newspaper slips , and a large majority of those would have been influenced by the leaflet , the Labour party ’ Standard ’ , with its misleading , scaremongering , alarmist nonsense . |
| 21 | Doctor and The Crippens were also scheduled to appear , as were Sore Throat , and the guest list seemed likely to be something of a hardcore Who 's Who ? — or at any rate , a hardcore Who 's That ? |
| 22 | SSP is straightforward to operate and is paid by you , the employer , as if it were normal pay . |
| 23 | There was communists , there was I M Ps , there were Labour Party men , and at that time there was a unity campaign . |
| 24 | Most of the women who attended the conference were Labour Party members . |
| 25 | It seems to me that the judgment must be read as a whole , and that paragraphs 19 to 20 , dealing with question 2(b) are completely inconsistent with Mr. Beazley 's construction , seeing that if he were right article 5(3) would become a ‘ catch-all ’ provision , and liability not based on tort , delict or quasi-delict would fall within it , notwithstanding the explicit statement to the contrary in the last two lines of paragraph 19 . |
| 26 | Conversely , Poles in Lithuania had alleged that they were suffering discrimination by the Lithuanian majority . |
| 27 | ‘ You were suffering withdrawal symptoms , were n't you , Aurora ? |
| 28 | Ministers were touchy on accusations of spending public money on making the prisons more comfortable for criminals while so many deserving people were suffering hardship or deprivation . |
| 29 | The Review of Child Care Law stated an acceptance that the state should not intervene between parent and child simply because it could provide something better than the parents but only if parents were falling so far below an acceptable standard that their children were suffering harm as a result ( DHSS , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | I thought you were asleep love . |