Example sentences of "[noun] were [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were there inside Jezrael , programmed by the cold machines of the night before . |
| 2 | But its characteristics were more at the level of perception than of narrative : peripheral vision ; proximity to the image ; and massive amplification of sound . |
| 3 | So you see the commercial aspects were still in there in those days as they are today . |
| 4 | As it turned out , the Machins were there in force , solemn in the church , gloomy by the graveside . |
| 5 | A UN Security Council resolution adopted unanimously on Nov. 25 noted that the meetings had not achieved their goal " in particular because certain positions adopted by the Turkish Cypriot side were fundamentally at variance with the Set of Ideas " , and urged the parties to adopt a series of confidence-building measures recommended by the Secretary-General . |
| 6 | The determined Cranleigh side were far from downhearted and they almost got a quick equaliser when Chris Lamboll , having beaten 'keeper Paul Cann , saw his shot booted off the line by Steve Buckingham . |
| 7 | And although Phil Simmons earned his first Test wicket by bowling David Boon just before stumps , the home side were still in control with an overall lead of 188 . |
| 8 | I thought they were lucky in their officials — executive leader Ali Bacher , ANC official Steve Tshwete , manager Alan Jordaan , and coach Mike Procter — and hoped they would enjoy to the full this honeymoon period of World Cup cricket in which their national fans were firmly behind them . |
| 9 | The success of Carry On Nurse in America did n't alter the fact that the fans were mostly in Britain and the Commonwealth , but the mail poured in from places as far apart as Kenya and Hong Kong . |
| 10 | Her legs were still on his shoulders as she pulled his head down to lightly kiss his lips . |
| 11 | My legs were all over the show and I 've got to stand tall tomorrow . ’ |
| 12 | In the North West Division Two Deeside were also without a full squad but came fourth at Crewe and now lie sixth overall . |
| 13 | So , although the North Koreans were soon to be backed by 250,000 Communist Chinese troops , officially there was still no hot war — only a cold one , in two versions , foreign and domestic . |
| 14 | Arnold , Williams and Douglas scored second half tries for Gosforth , Johnson adding a conversion and a penalty , but Morley were always in control . |
| 15 | The double answer — schools are different from but they are also the same as other organizations — was confirmed when Handy and Aitken ( 1986:34 ) asked whether , in their essentials , schools were just like other organizations . |
| 16 | Local schools were again in evidence at the Central Region Youth Orchestra concert in the MacRobert in March , part of a series of concerts , drama and other events organised by them as part of the Jubilee . |
| 17 | For comprehensive schools were still in the late l950s regarded as experimental , and in any case suitable only for certain areas , such as rural parts of the country hitherto ill-served by grammar schools . |
| 18 | When he did encounter problems , remedies were easily to hand . |
| 19 | In practice the express remedies were actually in many cases fairly limited , so that the effect of such guarantees was rather to avoid the manufacturer 's liability than to provide an additional remedy . |
| 20 | Josh and Becky were still at the doors , greeting people they knew . |
| 21 | In conclusion , the main areas of growth in English trade and industry were probably in cloth and shipping , although one must always allow for the possibility that some less well-documented sectors of the economy were also making significant advances . |
| 22 | However , the costs appearing in the books of the newly nationalised industry were considerably below these , largely because , while capital charges normally formed a large proportion of the total costs of electricity supply , the industry had in recent years been prevented from investing heavily and most of its inherited equipment stood in the books at prewar values . |
| 23 | The charges and the violence were far from one-sided . |
| 24 | The remaining problem was that although all the physical activities of the Branch , except for the field work , were concentrated in one place at Farnborough , our offices were still with the Department of Trade in central London . |
| 25 | All the offices were still within the partnership and all the partners still had joint and several responsibility , but the bank said no . |
| 26 | Where clients were already in an institution , or about to be admitted , when the development officers received their names as referrals , they generally accepted that there was little the Home Support Project could do . |
| 27 | In these cases the clients were often in hospital at referral and were either physically or mentally too frail or ill to be discharged . |
| 28 | On behalf of the Crown it was contended that the law did not recognise any such general principle as was involved in the primary submission for Woolwich , that the facts of the case did not meet the established principles governing the restitution of sums paid under duress , and that the revenue were never under any obligation to make any repayment and did so only as a matter of grace . |
| 29 | The rulers of the Regno were thus of prime interest to the popes . |
| 30 | At that stage Transvaal were still in the running for the night series trophy and his presence would obviously have made a difference . |