Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What could you measure to show that change was occurring ( ie how could you ‘ measure ’ something or things to determine whether you were successfully meeting the aims/goals you listed for Question 1 ? |
| 2 | Many in the US were keenly awaiting the outcome : Mr Baker had made several statements expressing Washington 's desire for Israel to reach an agreement with the Palestinians on elections . |
| 3 | This hints at changes which were eventually to destroy the balance of power itself ( the two most important were industrialization and imperialism ) , though their bearing on international affairs was not yet discerned in 1880 . |
| 4 | It was bounded and threatened to south and east by the forces of Islam , which were eventually to submerge the ancient eastern Christian Empire with its capital in Constantinople . |
| 5 | A major pattern of disagreement centres on the distribution of what were loosely termed the descriptive and actional frames of the story . |
| 6 | Gwyneth Dunwoody stated that we were secretly dismantling the health service and Roy Hattersley muttered about contracting out old people like refuse collection . |
| 7 | The advent of Stanier , and his successors locomotives designs , with their outside motion and labour saving examples were slowly replacing the older LNW engines along the coast . |
| 8 | Even his strong hands holding hers captive were n't hurting ; on the contrary , even that manacle was exciting because his thumbs were slowly stroking the insides of her wrists , sending shafts of awareness along her arms to her body , which was growing warm , soft , as though inviting his to sink further against her , into her … |
| 9 | A calm relaxing feeling flows throughout the body as though lead weights were slowly pulling the body down into the chair , heavier and heavier , more and more calm at every moment . |
| 10 | Perhaps these inhabitants of the underworld were slowly losing the struggle . |
| 11 | It was still predominantly a rural District and although the numbers of manual workers were slowly declining the full impact of mechanisation in agriculture , workshop and factory lay some years ahead . |
| 12 | Similarly , it seems only yesterday that we romantics were vigorously defending the vast technological resources invested in space research and travel . |
| 13 | Megaw LJ agreed with Denning MR but Browne LJ dissented : he said that the majority were effectively remaking the contract which was something which the court was not entitled to do . |
| 14 | Last I saw , a couple of hand-in-hand schoolkids had fished them out and were avidly reading the instruction leaflet . |
| 15 | You have to remember a nation where new immigrants were constantly adjusting the culture , the language , the sounds and smells on the street , and where new ideas — like socialism , like anarchism or Bolshevism — were associated with literal newcomers . |
| 16 | ‘ We were literally giving the stuff away just to get people to use it , ’ said Mr Anderson . |
| 17 | As with Hitler 's nazis , Blackshirts argued that in using weapons they were merely copying the tactics of their opponents . |
| 18 | But , nevertheless , that acceptance is rendered of no consequence by the claim that the theories were merely detailing the process of creation as already produced by the orthodox ‘ god ’ or ‘ gods ’ of antiquity . |
| 19 | Arthur Mailey , whose skill and amiable manner attracted F–S to cricket , was later to write that by F–S 's standards , other spin bowlers were merely allowing the ball to ‘ slip from their fingers ’ . |
| 20 | Crowe and Imran were merely re-inventing the wheel . |
| 21 | Moderator I am not convinced that in rejecting the legislation that went down under the Barrier Act , presbyteries were merely endorsing the status quo . |
| 22 | Angalo and Gurder had nestled deep into the rubbish and were gloomily eating the remains of a cold , greasy chip . |
| 23 | For several hours we would be transported via the newsreel to the exotic East , where American soldiers were valiantly fighting the red , or was it yellow peril , and then to the Wild West , where Hoot Gibson or Eddy Dean would be showing cattle rustlers or unfriendly Indians ‘ what America stood for ’ . |
| 24 | The Kop were all doing the moslem arm-worship thing chanting ‘ Newsome-Newsome ’ and even waving Newsome 's picture in the Kop ( he was this week 's pinup ! ) |
| 25 | The elections were apparently to decide the membership of 26 district councils , but in fact they were more like a refererendum , with multiple choices , on the province 's future . |
| 26 | Somebody rang up the first programme to complain about people who were apparently telephoning the station and talking on air . |
| 27 | The Nuremberg courts rejected the plea of the defendants that they were only obeying the community standards of their day , since the gravity of their crimes had to be weighed against the highest moral standards of humanity , not the customs of the age or the community . |
| 28 | But because such men were materialists and therefore underestimated the power of spiritual and moral values ( despite the Soviet invention of the doctrine of ‘ dialectical materialism ’ ) , they failed to see that they were only perpetuating the problem of modernity in another form . |
| 29 | No in actual fact we were only saying the other day that , you know , sugar Viv ? |
| 30 | It was nice to be alone with him in Faye and Bill 's room , even though they were only doing the most mundane of jobs — stripping bed linen , dismantling head- and base-boards , and struggling with the big double mattress . |