Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] were [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before , we were just listening to everybody else telling us to keep on playing and carry on doing this and that , but that was really just because they were afraid we were going to be a flash in the pan . |
| 2 | I had no idea how long we were going to be at Lille , or whether I stood any chance of being accepted by the Legion at all . |
| 3 | Yet the political authority was to an extent dependent on the company 's sources of information , however suspect or inadequate they were seen to be ; according to one civil servant interviewed , the PSO requirement was ‘ basically calculated by taking on trust the figures which RENFE gave ’ . |
| 4 | He said that the departure from Kabrit was a delightfully vague affair with nobody really having any clear idea of how long they were going to be away for , and not giving two hoots anyway . |
| 5 | Very soon after Prontosil and sulphanilamide became available they were shown to be active against malaria . |
| 6 | They said , they erm they said something or other they were going to be closing down somewhere in Cornwall because the Directory Enquiry service was not being used |