Example sentences of "they were [adv] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , not much is known , but it is thought they were probably pets or purely working dogs . |
| 2 | They were effectively men but no longer inferior ones . |
| 3 | They were simply mistress and servant now |
| 4 | Nor is it sensible to flee from farming and treat farmers as if they were simply game-wardens or wood-rangers or park-keepers . |
| 5 | They were mostly women and they were outside a fur shop called Naamen 's . |
| 6 | They were mostly things that had already reached the west . |
| 7 | To remind them that their rule was derived from God himself , and that they were neither creators nor rulers by right , God forbade them only one thing : they were not to partake of the knowledge of good and evil ; such a mysterious gnosis belonged to God alone . |
| 8 | Women had proved they were neither cowards nor intellectually lacking . |
| 9 | How far they were either north or south of their line they had no means of telling . |
| 10 | How far they were either north or south of their line they had no means of telling . |
| 11 | Oh yes , but they were just things that you tied at the back and and er had a frilled round here They were bonny . |
| 12 | They were just friends and although there was a lot of that [ sex ] at Oxford at that time , a platonic friendship was not unknown . |
| 13 | They were just movies that did n't come together — poorly executed , I guess . |
| 14 | I think it was Angie and Tony , going back to that incredible support that I told you about when I first met them , that they were also dreamers and had such faith and believed in David 's future and his destiny . |
| 15 | In 1900 , on the initiative of William II , it was made clear that military attachés were subordinate not to the head of the mission of which they were formally members but only to the kaiser himself . |
| 16 | There is a place called Canning Town and further out , Silvertown , where the pleasant meadows are at their pleasantist ; doubtless they were once slums and wretched enough . |
| 17 | But not so long ago they were actually sails and had to be put up and taken down like the sails of a ship . |
| 18 | took the wealth , and they were often people that were elected to cadres because they showed initiative . |
| 19 | But these features were obviously not the ‘ causes ’ of crime , they were merely signs that supposedly enabled us to spot criminals . |
| 20 | Some won their battles , but many others discovered that in law they were merely tenants-at-will and that as a consequence they had to pay much higher rents than before . |
| 21 | And this really was the basis therefore of the first films , they were really demonstrations that pictures could move , and this was sufficient for people to pay a few pence to come in erm and look at the films . |
| 22 | If they were really brother and sister , they were a strange pair , but that was nobody 's business but their own , and like all the other members of the company , Noreen just let them get on with it . |
| 23 | Ruth , Lady Fermoy and her husband Maurice knew the Queen Mother and King George VI when they were still Duke and Duchess of York , before the abdication . |
| 24 | But that was many years ago when they were still juveniles and one day she disappeared and none of the eagles there has since had the full power of a Callanish eagle . |