Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] were [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very few pagan cemeteries were in use throughout the period , and those that were tend to be the large examples in eastern England which may have been centralised depositories , not belonging to individual settlements . |
| 2 | Professor Gordon Higginson , Southampton University vice-chancellor , who chaired the committee , said its proposals were quite modest and were bound to be implemented by the mid-1990s . |
| 3 | The courses were Linguistics-based and were designed to be professionally relevant in a broad sense , though they included much that made no claim to immediate practical usefulness . |
| 4 | I think the old man 's a bit afraid to go into hospital , I know that he 's afraid obviously cos of the , the , this open heart surgery sort of thing but er , he 's also afraid that , he thinks were gon na have er such outrageous parties down the close and were gon na be open all night and things like that . |
| 5 | Similarly , cross-references which were not satisfied or were found to be ambiguous during the earlier stage of computer processing may need to be corrected or updated . |