Example sentences of "were all [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were all questions which both puzzled and disturbed him , yet at the same time he knew she was the key to helping him expose the diversion at the plant . |
| 2 | Davie Jess , a well known wag , entertained his mates with a flood of stories , many of which , as he said later , John Robertson , a man known to have a fine voice was asked to sing a song ; the only songs of which he knew the words were all hymns and soon rescuers gathered in the control room on the surface heard a strong , clear rendering of The Old Rugged Cross coming to them over the internal telephone system , with more than 100 trapped miners joining in the chorus . |
| 3 | They were all fools . |
| 4 | In public the couple were all smiles , in private it was a different story . |
| 5 | TERRY Venables and Alan Sugar were all smiles when , in June 1991 , they announced a joint rescue package for financially-crippled Tottenham Hotspur . |
| 6 | THE Mayor and mayoress were all smiles and kisses during a grand ceremony to hand them their chains of office . |
| 7 | Bertrand Russell , EM Forster , Einstein — and even Gene Roddenberry , the creator of Star Trek — were all humanists . |
| 8 | I thought we were all biologists these days ! |
| 9 | And the strange thing about it is they were all orphans . |
| 10 | These were all advantages accruing to the defendants which can fairly be said to have been in consideration of their undertaking to pay the additional £10,300 . |
| 11 | Also amnestied were all prisoners ( except repeated offenders ) who had been sentenced before Dec. 22 , 1989 , to prison terms of up to three years for crimes other than murder , rape , grievous bodily harm , robbery , bribe-taking and abuse of power . |
| 12 | Great surges of political movement , such as Chartism in the 1840s , could recruit them : the London costermongers ( small market traders ) described by Henry Mayhew were all Chartists . |
| 13 | Jesus who Himself spoke of ‘ the creation ’ could also have rightly spoken in terms of ‘ my creation ’ for as the apostle Paul wrote ‘ by Him were all things CREATED that are in heaven ( was there evolution in heaven ? ) and that are in earth … all things were CREATED by Him and for Him . ’ |
| 14 | Thus the interactions were all things which did not clearly put one of the protagonists in an agent position and the other in a patient position . |
| 15 | The paraphernalia of capitalism — the banks , mortgages , moneylenders , credit , exchange rates , inflation , Jewish competition , Polish labour — these were all things that German small business had learned to fear and mistrust as its economy had , without the buffer of empire , ridden the rollercoaster of boom and slump between the Franco-Prussian wars and the Great War . |
| 16 | They were all things to which the audience could relate and the more they related the more they laughed — which gave instant satisfaction not just to Charlie Williams and Lou ( who , of course , thought that everything her Ken did was wonderful ) but to Michael Codron , the producer and the young man who wrote it all — Peter Cook . |
| 17 | These were all things that er you . |
| 18 | They were all women , were n't they ? |
| 19 | I remember when I was at the Open University , the people who were engaged in implementing Open University programmes in the States , who were the deans in charge of the Open University experiments , were all women and all ‘ marginal ’ to the mainline male career people . |
| 20 | He pulled a sheet from one of the beds , spread it on the floor , opened up wardrobes and drawers , scooped up armfuls of clothes — there was no time to make any kind of selection and even if there had been he would have been unable to pick and choose , they were all women 's clothing — dumped them on the sheet , tied up the four corners , lugged the bundle up the companionway and handed it over to Riley . |
| 21 | We were all women , including the daughter of a miner , who had been married to a miner and whose son was now a miner . |
| 22 | There were 490 members of the union and the nine-member Executive Committee were all women . |
| 23 | The three members of health care staff found to have antibodies to surface antigen were all women , reflecting the large proportion of female health care workers being vaccinated and followed up ( 7821 out of 10871 ; 72% ) . |
| 24 | But these were all women . |
| 25 | Yet these were all women who , ten years ago , would have called themselves liberated , independent , ambitious . |
| 26 | They were all women |
| 27 | Goldberg was surprised by his results because the students were all women . |
| 28 | Were all women like that ? |
| 29 | Moreover , they were all women , had a lower age and higher serum glutamic oxals acetic transminase concentrations . |
| 30 | Those with normal peristalsis ( group I : n=8 ; mean age ( SEM ) 47 ( 3 ) years ) were all women . |