Example sentences of "[adv] were [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm it so happened that that the group that that Britain was supporting perhaps were constitutionalists although Canning was almost erm was always rather scathing about how liberal they were and how constitutionalist they were . |
| 2 | Well , I said , floundering a little , boys were notoriously backward and so were twins and , really , did n't he think … |
| 3 | The peace of the Messianic Age belongs both to those who once were outsiders and to those who prided themselves on being the elect . |
| 4 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |
| 5 | Here were swords and rapiers hanging from sashes on panelled walls , delicate figurines set on marble pedestals , statues from across the far China seas , carved elephants and lions from Africa , Javanese dancing girls with jointed limbs , fierce ceremonial masks from the mountains of Indonesia . |
| 6 | All around were Officers and men getting extremely drunk . |
| 7 | All around were meadows and woods and farmland , but the 1st Shurston Brownie Pack were as keen and lively as any in city or big town . |
| 8 | Everywhere were bridges that led nowhere ; throughfares that were wholly impassable ; Babel towers of chimneys , wanting half their height ; temporary wooden houses and enclosures , in the most unlikely situations ; carcasses of ragged tenements , and fragments of unfinished walls and arches , and piles of scaffolding , and wildernesses of bricks , and giant forms of cranes , and tripods straddling above nothing . |
| 9 | Here indeed were ideas and ample evidence that the movies had all the potential to move into a position alongside the press and the pulpit as an agency moulding the ideas and values of the mass public . |
| 10 | The next highest were plasterers and plumbers ( 6 per cent each ) with roofers close behind at 5 per cent . |
| 11 | And where were Cis and Ifor ? |
| 12 | So too were coaches and cars full of foreign tourists . |