Example sentences of "[adv] they were [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently they were used in restaurants , skating-rinks , and similar venues . |
| 2 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 3 | Perhaps they were disturbed by alarming reports from France , where the noble philosophical aims of Liberty , Equality and Fraternity were beginning to be taken a little too far . |
| 4 | Perhaps they were cloistered at home or in one of the wig shops . |
| 5 | Perhaps they were influenced by the ghoulish sets and sound effects , Christopher Lee 's cape and the ‘ blood capsules ’ they bought to disgust their pals . |
| 6 | He said and I do n't think that they were meant to be perhaps they were meant to be in order of importance . |
| 7 | Survival of these roots may have been enhanced by greater lignification and/or suberization of cortical or epidermal cells , or perhaps they were located in resource-rich microsites . |
| 8 | At Pan Am , only the chairman and chief executive officer , Thomas G. Plaskett ; the senior vice president , legal , John Lindsey , and Gregory W. Buhler , deputy general counsel , were allowed to read it , and only they were advised of Shaughnessy 's decision to subpoena government records . |
| 9 | The windows had been broken years ago but the railway company had boarded the frames up with wooden battens which were very effective ; they did however allow a view into the building and although the children could see in they were fascinated with the place and were happy playing in the cutting . |
| 10 | So they were appointed under the seal of office of the seneschal , not the great seal of England . |
| 11 | So they were left with a tantalising hint : heat , yes ; neutrons , no . |
| 12 | Nevertheless they were held to be in contempt but , the strike having collapsed , no penalty was imposed . |
| 13 | They were carried on four pairs , of which the two middle ones were fixed , whereas to move sideways in a radial direction when going round a curve , though normally they were held in a straight line with the fixed wheels by a pair of springs in compression . |
| 14 | As usual after Anne and Sarah went into the parlour to play records , and soon they were joined by Mick and John , but the conversation was still general . |
| 15 | Sophie welcomed her warmly and pulled out a chair for the plastered leg to stretch out on , and soon they were joined by Helen . |
| 16 | Very soon they were acquired by a developer and are now being marketed as individual office units . |
| 17 | At first they were very calm and at the end , at the end there was a big panic that they was , they were all talking over each other , there was no control , you know , it was a bit rushed at the end , but , that was n't because it was bad planning , it was just they were panicked at the end . |
| 18 | she was one of the first anyway , so er , but it took a long time before she had them , five years ' wait , and she said , that , at the last attempt she said to her husband that 's it now , if it does n't work this time , that 's it , I 'm not having any more attempts , that 's it definitely , and they had that successfully and that 's how they had the twins , so they 're her children , they are their children , it 's just they were fertilized outside the womb , in a glass dish it 's fascinating i n't it ? she said it 's really fascinating I can assure you I said oh I can see |
| 19 | That and I appreciate one or two might want to go and work on other divisions but I if generally they were kept on the division that they are now then it could be a very gradual process of going back into uniform . |
| 20 | How much more easily they were swayed by prestige than by arguments ! |
| 21 | If passengers chose to travel outside they were equipped with helmet and goggles . |
| 22 | Elsewhere they were associated with a spontaneous and far-reaching social revolution in which the moving spirits were the CNT , the left wing of the UGT and , in Catalonia , the POUM — a small but vigorous anti-Stalinist communist party . |
| 23 | Practitioners were asked to include all asthma attacks from patients on their lists whether or not they were seen by themselves , a partner , a deputy , or in hospital . |
| 24 | Having assessed the responses to that paper , we concluded that the best way forward was to strengthen the 1979 Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act to make it an offence to remove finds from scheduled sites whether or not they were discovered by means of a metal detector . |
| 25 | In one critical sense none of the new policy-making affected the CNAA : its purpose remained to validate degrees and other awards in institutions other than universities — whether or not they were designated as polytechnics . |
| 26 | In other words , statutory interventions , whether or not they were justified on legal grounds , needed to be located in a moral and human framework of compassion , care , and empathy . |
| 27 | The difference is hard to explain as there was no difference between the two groups in terms of whether or not they were employed at the time they enquired about the courses . |
| 28 | As described earlier , in Ipswich a multi-disciplinary psychogeriatric team maintained involvement with all patients whether or not they were admitted to an institution . |
| 29 | Whether or not they were promoted to the level of policy disagreement , everyone knows precisely what differences of opinion exist between Number 10 and Number 11 . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was because she 'd already seen countless admiring female eyes slide in his direction ; even though they apparently had n't recognised him in his goggles and ski-hat , still they were drawn by the sheer animal magnetism of the man . |