Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] were [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furlong is correct , however , in suggesting that anxiety was rife , and because of this and establishment obsessions with a belief in a statistical truth we were constantly being asked to give numerical estimates of how many there were ‘ out there ’ who were ‘ fixing ’ , ‘ using the weed ’ , or ‘ dropping acid ’ . |
| 2 | The stand we were in was wooden and when a few of the fans tried to light up their cigs. they were immediately pounced upon by the attendants to cordially desist . |
| 3 | Condition 2 stated that a charge of £5 plus V.A.T. per transparency was payable for each day they were late being returned . |
| 4 | But you , you 're right that if we stick to somewhere between six hundred and seven hundred as , as a erm even a basic kind of subsistence I E you 've just got enough in just , you , you 're just not using enough food to get yourself up to two hundred , two thousand calories a day at that rate you were still being taxed on , a at a rate of almost twenty percent of your , of your income . |
| 5 | Come off it , Walter , I 'm not denying Steiner 's audacity and bravery , but the man they were after was n't even Churchill . |
| 6 | The analysis of the unmet need for legal services identified types of problem which were not being dealt with as well as types of people . |
| 7 | Early English pop was riddled with homosexuality and that sensibility which we would now call camp — partly this was due to homosexual familiarity with those areas of human activity which were now being exploited , and partly to the early music industry 's seedy beginnings on the fringes of established showbusiness . |
| 8 | I know that one you made last time you were down was a |
| 9 | The house we were in was solid Victorian in style , both inside and out , except that it had a tin roof . |