Example sentences of "they were [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were selectivists rather than universalists in their approach to welfare spending . |
| 2 | This distinctive feature may have been retained to convince a money-conscious Council that they were rebuilds rather than new cars ! |
| 3 | ‘ But I really believed they were cranks anyway , ’ protests Alex . |
| 4 | Even if they were friends again , perhaps he still blamed her , secretly . |
| 5 | They were friends now , sitting on a schoolyard wall together at break . |
| 6 | Well , they were professionals as far as I know , it was n't a matter there of professionals beating amateurs. erm As for the distinction between the amateur and the professional , no , I think , I think that we 've got stuck with this amateur business , partly because it 's related to the idea of the English gentleman , which is only slowly fading . |
| 7 | They were monarchs indeed from the mid eleventh century on , ruling over a monarchy as wide as western Christendom with some very material weapons ; but it was a spiritual monarchy in which military power had no hand ; and in Rome itself the spiritual monarchy became for ever entangled with the pope 's role as the ruler of the city . |
| 8 | They were colourists then and good fabrics in the fourteenth fifteenth century . |
| 9 | The two , sometimes three , hours spent in the College quadrangle when , we are told , the Professor would courteously listen and give an intelligible answer to every question , and when the instruction he communicated was stamped on the memory by the good temper and joke and repartee with which it was accompanied , these were periods which an old student liked to call to memory , for they were hours pleasantly and usefully passed . |
| 10 | Normal was what people said some of their actions and relations were , from time to time , and in Marcus 's experience what they said they were bore only a vague relation to their actual forms and configurations . |
| 11 | This is really the heart of my thesis ; the eighteenth-century philosophers said that true men differed from sub-men because they were rational philosophers rather than poets ; the nineteenth-century positivists said that true men differed from sub-men because they were scientists rather than superstitious believers in magic ; I am saying that men are men and not non-men because they have created artistic imagination which is bound up with the use of language and other forms of patterned but arbitrary expression , e.g. dancing and music . |
| 12 | People who write adventures tend to forget they were beginners once , making the mighty plains inaccessible for all but the brave and fearless ( like myself ) . |
| 13 | I thought at first they were racoons then I realised they were pandas . |
| 14 | They were n't loud , loud ; they were Motorhead loud , like really loud , ’ he remembers . |
| 15 | And they were ages out |
| 16 | As likely as not they were cottagers partially dependent on casual labouring , while not infrequently assessment on wages gives practical expression to the class of servants mentioned by the act of 1533 . |
| 17 | But when we went on strike they started making slate , so in a way they were scabs too , in these two officials , officials not touched a slate if they were er not making slate before , why should they make slate when we were on strike ? |
| 18 | The they were scabs then and the scabs now , and they 'll always be scabs all their lives now . |
| 19 | Cos these lads now that have gone back , and they were scabs then and they 'll scabs they will be all their lives now . |
| 20 | Kim 's husband Ian th when they were shopping round for different things and |
| 21 | Some of the patients with a curve in excess of 100° were no longer able to sit because of the pelvic obliquity consequent on the scoliosis ; they were bedridden not because of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy itself but because they had been allowed to develop such extensive spinal curves before referral to an orthopaedic muscle clinic . |
| 22 | The -tun element of their place names suggests they were hamlets once , while many of the place names indicate their former owners : Maddington belonged to the ‘ maidens ’ , the nuns of Amesbury Abbey ; Shrewton to the Sherrif ; Addestone to the Abbot of St Peter 's , Winchester . |
| 23 | Teaching and organ-playing gave Benjamin James ( hereinafter simply ‘ Benjamin' for the sake of conciseness ) the wherewithal to leave one place for another if he wished to — they were skills more marketable over a wide area than those of his father , for example , who presumably relied upon local contacts and reputation in order to earn a decent living . |
| 24 | They were strangers here . |
| 25 | They were lovers now , and he preferred today to dwell on that than on the knottier problems . |
| 26 | They were miles apart last night and at 2-0 . |
| 27 | only two places and one point seperate the two teams in the league but in the trophy … they were miles apart … the Kings were different class … |
| 28 | I suppose that in a few countries like Nazi Germany in nineteen-thirty-six the erm the nation 's amateur champions were given a special backing because of the force of nationalism erm national focus of attention on them at that date , but it , it still was , they were amateurs still meeting on equal ground . |
| 29 | Simply to apply findings , without regard to their particular conditions of validity , is to impose prescribed patterns of behaviour on learners as if they were subjects rather than people and to make them submit to solutions which correspond to problems other than their own . |
| 30 | Well they were tunnels too . |