Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] were [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris met lead guitarist Graham at school where they were involved in various dodgy bands . |
| 2 | The planners had in fact already taken out of the hands of the industry a good deal of the coordinating responsibility for making up the plant backlog , recognising electricity supply as a crucial sector in their overall economic planning and taking steps to intervene directly where they were dissatisfied with the progress made by the Pre-vesting electricity undertakings . |
| 3 | One of the significant features of the examination was the high degree of agreement achieved between the metallurgical experts in an activity where they were concerned with the most advanced aspects of fracture mechanics . |
| 4 | These restricted lawful picketing to the pickets ' own place of work and removed the unions ' legal immunities from civil actions , so making them liable for damages up to a certain limit where they were responsible for unlawful industrial action . |
| 5 | CATHERINE Not more than you were capable of . |
| 6 | Dawlish passed the January expenses OK so you were right after all , you clever thing . |
| 7 | ‘ So you were free at last ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ So you were drunk-driving on top of everything else ? |
| 9 | ‘ Although we were disappointed at losing to Japan the emergence of Tony Stanger plus Ian Corcoran , Cameron Glasgow and Adam Buchanan-Smith emphasises the value of touring , ’ Munro said . |
| 10 | Although we were unaware of the wartime centrifugal launcher proposals , we have never claimed to have invented the idea . |
| 11 | It felt strange to be watching in silence all those lives going on , and although we were aware of all the comings and goings of their lives , they did n't even know we existed . |
| 12 | I do n't know how Mum managed but we were never without food , although we were short on other things — I never saw a television . |
| 13 | Although we were wary of being shown set-up situations , the people we met impressed us as having deep convictions , lively minds , tireless enthusiasm , incorruptible moral standards . |
| 14 | The voice was real close to the rest of the music and most times back then , in country and pop , the vocal was always way out in front ; even on RCA the voice was out more than we were used to . |
| 15 | We had thrown grenades before and used the LRAC rocket launcher so we were accustomed to the noise and strength of high-impact explosion . |
| 16 | From there the road was downhill , so we were able to coast noiselessly down into the sleeping suburbs , then dismount and push the bike into the city centre . |
| 17 | He says , Yes , twenty five , so we were happy with that . |
| 18 | ‘ So keen , ’ said Rain , ‘ that she came back once we were all with Durance . ’ |
| 19 | Fusion was the word that would excite the world following the press conference , and although they were convinced from their heat data and also from their vaporised palladium block that fusion was occurring , they would have to see neutrons to convince the scientific community of it . |
| 20 | Keith Richardson says that although they were unlucky with the last kick London Irish deserved to win and had they made more of their chances : |
| 21 | The band became known as the Thirty Comrades , their heroic status reflecting the company gathered round the great king Alaungpaya , although they were 68 in number . |
| 22 | When it came to childraising , although they were libertarian towards the baby , they seemed conservative towards Phoebe 's needs : demand feeding and endless devotion seemed to be required of her . |
| 23 | Although they were quick on the uptake of word processing systems , the company has one computer per staff member , they were still ‘ double keying ’ the majority of their text although portions were being supplied to the typesetters on disk . |
| 24 | But although they were terrified of the Magistrate , who in more peaceful times had so often savaged their verses , the ladies in the billiard room stoutly refused to volunteer for the banqueting hall , which they wrongly believed to be more dangerous than the Residency except for Lucy , who was generally acknowledged to have nothing to live for anyway . |
| 25 | This was to be precisely the starting assumption of positivist criminologists ( although they were interested in these differences not because they justified different levels of desert , but because they suggested different types of treatment ) . |
| 26 | Kelly and Tomlinson-Keasey ( 1977 ) , Scholes and Fischler ( 1979 ) and Ross , Pergament and Anisfeld ( 1979 ) all showed slight LVF advantage for English words among deaf subjects , but these results did not reach significance ( although they were significant for hearing people as a RVFA ) . |
| 27 | But , although they were amused at first , I do n't think they liked it and , after a while , he was sent for treatment . |
| 28 | He was writing it afresh , there and then , word for word , but the words , although they were identical to the familiar text , were nevertheless new words , words that had not been made before . |
| 29 | People , that is , who although they were scandalised by the outrageous behaviour of the garotters and roughs , lived nevertheless in an untidy moral proximity with systematic brutality , degradation and mass violence . |
| 30 | In this research social information , as opposed to psychiatric diagnosis , was not considered by psychiatrists to be central to their task , although they were aware of the influence of social factors on psychiatric symptomatology . |