Example sentences of "were nearly all [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This of course was a common point of view but none the less irritating because we were nearly all conscripted at this stage of the war and would have preferred to have been left alone to get on with our nice , comfortable civilian lives in peace . |
| 2 | Some of them were to become famous , like Brancusi , Gleizes , le Fauconnier , but most are now completely forgotten , such as Drouard , Doucet , Centore , Coustillier , Guiraud-Riviere and so on because they were nearly all killed in World War I. In my book I show some of their works because they were Modigliani 's everyday companions . |
| 3 | They were nearly all altered in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , then restored to their Medieval appearance in the nineteenth or twentieth . |
| 4 | Experience seemed to justify this view , for the period saw many indecisive encounters of this kind ; while the naval battles which produced some decisive result — Cape Passaro ( 1718 ) ; Hawke 's victory over the French Admiral Du Bois de la Motte ( 1744 ) ; Lagos and Quiberon Bay ( 1759 ) ; Rodney 's ‘ midnight chase ’ of the Spanish Admiral Langara in 1780 — were nearly all marked by a preponderance of strength on one side . |
| 5 | Cloth-finishing processes tended to be concentrated in towns and urbanised villages ; Wiltshire fulling mills were nearly all controlled by the clothiers . |