Example sentences of "[coord] they were [adv] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These had been found in the fragmentary vertebrates such as Astraspis and Eriptychius , long known from Middle Ordovician rocks of North America , and they were often regarded as showing primitive vertebrate conditions from which the large shields of more typical pteraspids developed . |
| 2 | First , we should understand that the political hacks were peeved when he won the overwhelming support of his colleagues to represent them on Labour 's shadow cabinet and they were really gutted when John Smith gave him the Scottish Office to shadow . |
| 3 | ‘ There were tongues wagging a plenty , I can tell you , at such a hasty wedding , but they were soon stilled when my lord announced he was leaving immediately , and — ’ |
| 4 | But they were ultimately dashed when China insisted that Hong Kong diplomats take second place to British representatives , thus demoting the views of the colony and effectively limiting the talks to the Britain and China . |
| 5 | Professor T , R. Lee said that people were exercised about the dangers to life from railways when they were new , but they were eventually seen as negligible , with the implication for some that the same sequence would happen with nuclear energy . |
| 6 | Representatives were summoned to assent to taxes on a number of occasions , as in the 1290s , but they were also called when no tax was being demanded — in 1300 , 1302 , 1305 and 1307 , for example . |
| 7 | Numerous L1 cells were also localised to the crypt region and to some extent beneath the villous epithelium in normal lamina propria , but they were mainly identified as EG2 eosinophils . |
| 8 | But they were still rated as " other " , a race apart . |