Example sentences of "[adv] were [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Inside were elegant hallways and high-ceilinged rooms .
2 The week went by , it was a very pleasant week , hot with a cool breeze that made games and swimming even more pleasant than usual , Alicia and Betty were practising hard for the school sport , both were excellent swimmers and divers .
3 Here were sporting clubs and the Conservative Association run by two youths in heavy metal tour T-shirts .
4 Here were audio spaces that , in certain instances , bled around comers out of sight of their sources ; sculptural/architectural spaces around and through which the viewer must travel ; virtual spaces of onscreen worlds ; visual spaces of Greenbergian flatness , for example in Susan Hiller 's well-known Belshazzar 's Feast ( 1983–4 ) , where images of flame move towards the purity of pixels ( though she also devotes attention to the generation of images and gestalts from the eye itself ) ; geographical spaces , notably in the move of Judith Goddard 's environmental sculpture , Electron ( 1987 ) , from Dartmoor indoors .
5 The worst were frosted flakes and honey or crunchy nut flakes .
6 And why were evangelical Christians and Bruce Springsteen fans burning disco records in ceremonies reminiscent of the book bonfires of Nazi Germany ?
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