Example sentences of "were [adj] [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The provisions for capital gains tax relief for entrepreneurs were also amended to extend the relief to gains arising from the sale of quoted shares where the qualifying entrepreneur held them when they were unquoted and allow him or her to claim relief when they receive shares in another company in exchange for unquoted shares in their own . |
| 2 | Amid the unspeakable sufferings , however , there are epic tales of courage and heroism ; of those who voluntarily followed their banished loved ones into the unknown ; of enlightened , cultivated exiles who chose to remain after their sentences were complete and devote themselves to the scientific , artistic and educational development of the region . |
| 3 | Someone told him that the way to make money was to buy when the shares were low and sell when they were high . |
| 4 | Their role as the principal form of money for over two millennia means they can tell us about economies for which we have little or no written evidence , and the fact that they were mass-produced and have survived in such large numbers offers the opportunity to approach the economic history of some societies in a quantitative way . |
| 5 | Best of all would be to get a job in Wellingham if it were possible and live all the time at Moorlake . |
| 6 | The insecurities remain because they were so entrenched at a very important developmental time when as children they were dependent and let down . |
| 7 | However , if they had lived with the deceased , an unmarried partner 's children from a previous marriage or relationship might be able to prove they were dependent and obtain provision from the estate . |
| 8 | Funerals were free and open to all . |
| 9 | Of these two , sentence ( i ) was favoured : The justifications offered by the groups who chose ( i ) as the crucial opening sentence were interesting and merit some consideration . |
| 10 | Actually , I do n't think too badly of old John as any goalkeeper that wins two league championships ca n't be all that bad ( cue people listing goalies who were crap and have won more ) . |
| 11 | Mr Lang said that the first priority of Scottish teachers should be to ensure their pupils were literate and numerate . |
| 12 | Predictably the latter stages were nervous and tense for Luton and the visitors might have levelled in the 73rd minute . |
| 13 | The greetings were warm and elaborate , like those of old friends who had not met for years . |
| 14 | Er because they were bigger than say Murrays . |
| 15 | Superficially it resembles a shield boss with three fixing holes but I thought that they were heavier and cast . |
| 16 | It may be fair enough for those people who retire at 60 or 65 , but consider those who were forced to take early retirement or who were sick and have now recovered . ’ |
| 17 | The differences between Blacks and Whites were fewer than have been found in other surveys , though Blacks ' attitudes tended to be less favourable . |
| 18 | Outside these regions , canals were fewer and cross linking much less developed . |
| 19 | Mrs Goreng was just thinking , and her thoughts were hard and mean . |
| 20 | In Catalonia there was little criticism of a territorial aristocracy that took little or no interest in its lands : the large farmers were confident and secure in an aristocratic rural society where an early and major defeat of the economic power of the nobility had left the masovers a rural bourgeoisie . |
| 21 | The gears were tricky and elaborate , but she managed them after one or two mistakes , and by the time she had been round once she felt very proud of herself . |
| 22 | Such position-taking obviously involves risks and if expectations were incorrect and bond prices rise rather than fall then market makers with short positions will incur losses . |
| 23 | In Att. -Gen. for New South Wales v. Trethowan ( P.C. , 1932 ) a decision of the Australian Supreme Court to grant a declaration that two Bills passed by the New South Wales State Legislature were invalid and grant an injunction restraining the Bills from being presented to the Governor for assent was upheld . |
| 24 | Though the words were softly spoken and polite , the look in Michele 's eyes made David drop her hand as if it were red-hot and step back . |
| 25 | He was also charged with forcing the king to bestow the earldom of March upon him in the Salisbury parliament of 1328 and then leading an armed band against the Earl of Lancaster , with procuring the death of the Earl of Rent , fomenting discord between Edward II and Isabella , and other offences which together amounted to a comprehensive indictment of his rule since 1326 , The earls and barons , ‘ the peers of the realm ’ , were asked to give their judgement on these charges and they declared that they were notorious and manifest to all . |
| 26 | they used to , they used to travel them back to Driffield if they were full and keep the empty coaches in two sidings . |
| 27 | The following morning when the twins found out what Kalchu had done they were angry and upset . |
| 28 | The temptation is to anthropomorphise their plight , to compare them with human beings in similar situations ( as Rollin does explicitly ) who would almost certainly be distressed at the opportunities that they were foregoing and make protest . |
| 29 | Aggressive defence allowed us to survive when the Welsh were dominant and transform their ball into counter-attack options for us . |
| 30 | The record-keeping and office procedures implications of the Modular Course when it started in 1973 with an intake of 75 students were modest but have since grown with the Course . |