Example sentences of "[that] we [was/were] [adv] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because God does not require reminding that we were just as good Jews without ostentation . |
| 2 | It was partly true [ that we were not as good at TV as we might have been ] , but that was also partly distorted by how good we were at press . |
| 3 | I was a bit disappointed that we were n't that warm on it initially . |
| 4 | And , and , and lets remember that the first big shock that British sportsmen got , the first shaking of the earth which intimated that we were n't so hot at these things as we used to be was in professional sport , it was in football , it was when the Hungarians beat England in nineteen-fifty-six , and the Hungarian army officer Elista Pushkas became erm a world figure because he 'd led the team that had humbled British football might . |
| 5 | I spent hours trying to answer that query — and I 'm pleased to say that experience has proved that we were n't entirely loony . |
| 6 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
| 7 | The result was that we were much more competitive in the second-half . |