Example sentences of "[det] were [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If this were any other case of blackmail I 'd say it stinks , but as it is , it 's O.K. ’ |
| 2 | And if this were any other place I 'd tell you to get the hell out of here and out of my life . ’ |
| 3 | These were all implicit attacks upon higher ecclesiastical authority . |
| 4 | These were all superb feats of engineering . |
| 5 | These were all private collections , as was that of Bernard of Compostella , the Compilatio Romana , covering the first ten years of Innocent 's pontificate to February 1208 . |
| 6 | These were all new processes which required space , machinery , an increasing range of chemicals and personnel . |
| 7 | These were all royal foundations . |
| 8 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 9 | These were all heavy bomber stations and did have some very tough times , losing many aircraft and many more coming back from ops badly shot up , with dead and injured on board and sometimes bombs as well , the same as we in 8 Group and all the other Groups were experiencing . |
| 10 | A builder , a farmer , a trader of whatever standing , a herder : these were all free men distinguished not by their wealth or learning or any other quality except their independence . |
| 11 | Regarding the strikes , disputes and restrictive practices which had plagued the Dublin plant , these were all unfortunate legacies of the British system which had been foisted upon the Irish since before the First World War . |
| 12 | These were all historical facts , facts about the past which men cited to authenticate or justify their or other people 's actions : they were the chief source of the Zuwaya image of statelessness . |