Example sentences of "[adv] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most successful perhaps were those acquired as teacher training colleges , such as Wentworth Castle and Wentworth Woodhouse which , without such use , might not have survived at all . |
| 2 | Even foreign tourists who had not yet caught on to the realities of life in Romania and perhaps were over-insistent in demanding from a minor bureaucrat of the tourist office why some essential and prepaid feature of their holiday had failed to materialize would be confronted by a shrug of the shoulders and the muttered words , ‘ Epocha Ceauşescu , as the only explanation . |
| 3 | Eh and perhaps were one of the major funders in the past I say General Portfolio until recently were the major funders er in the in the ninety ninety one but there 's been no company that 's been funding the theatre on a regular basis . |
| 4 | Erm it so happened that that the group that that Britain was supporting perhaps were constitutionalists although Canning was almost erm was always rather scathing about how liberal they were and how constitutionalist they were . |
| 5 | These are from Mycenae , and perhaps were metopes . |
| 6 | ‘ I did realise , yesterday , that you perhaps were n't completely satisfied with the account of my whereabouts when , er — ’ |
| 7 | Now if we take it just one step further , there was a lady well there still is a lady called and she did some research , what she was trying to look at was the the sort of body language if you like the actions that people er use and associate that to their personality and she looked particularly at people who were open positive communicators truthful I suppose but people who were open communicators and looked at the sort of things they did and also at people who perhaps were n't quite so honest and open and truthful . |
| 8 | ‘ What with health budgets being pruned and cut back I 'm asking the health board if staff shortages perhaps were a contributory factor here . ’ |
| 9 | It turned out to be erm used more fully as a family centre , where families would come and spend half a day , than it did the casual pop-in arts centre , which the old arts laboratories or the more conventional arts centre perhaps were directed towards . |
| 10 | Since all the teachers in the faculty hitherto were Anglican , this choice of a Methodist for a key post did not go unobserved . |
| 11 | Er but erm this gives an idea of the railway lines that er well basically were in this area , erm I suppose er still round about nineteen fifty sixty time . |
| 12 | The shouting grew fiercer , and the gates opposite were thrown open . |
| 13 | The four men opposite were all smiling |
| 14 | Even better were the days when there was no box and she and Andrew rode home together through the short dark evenings , gentle friends , warm goodnights calling to them , stresses of the day , wonderful or not so wonderful , over and past , the time for loving and giving nearer … |
| 15 | There , as if a curtain had been raised on both sides of the river , suddenly were campsites , fishing and bathing . |
| 16 | Even if only half that much were needed , a 20-tonne lorry would have to be loaded somewhere every eight minutes , day and night , for nine months . |
| 17 | As far as the male is concerned , this might not matter too much were it not for the fact that some of these cases of NSU or ‘ pus cells in the urethra ’ may very well not be manifestations of infection . |
| 18 | Even the cash-flow predictions they cared about so much were nothing to her but answers she wanted ticked . |
| 19 | The sexual irregularities of which biographers have made so much were not in themselves important or unusual for a ruler of that age . |
| 20 | Maria thought the evening went well and could only hope those to whom this launch meant so much were equally pleased with the way she acquitted herself . |
| 21 | Our last Letters are dated Hobart Town Feb. 9 up to which time his expedition had been eminently successful ; far more so than he could have anticipated ; the most liberal assistance had been rendered him by the Authorities , everything that could facilitate his views being cheerfully accorded : while nothing could exceed the kindness of Sir John and Lady Franklin in whose house he was then residing : in fact so much were they interested in his pursuits that upon more than one occasion they accompanied him in his exploring parties . |
| 22 | In his semi-final Hartlepool 's Mark Chicocki was disqualified after being given three warnings in the last round for leaning on , a decision booed soundly by the crowd and highlighted by the fact that in following bouts boxers who leaned on just as much were n't even spoken to . |
| 23 | Mr Allum added Department of Health claims dentists earned too much were false . |
| 24 | In fact , those who retired prematurely were less likely than those who waited until pension age to have said that they had ever thought seriously about early retirement ( 24 per cent compared with 44 per cent in the age-group 60 and over ) . |
| 25 | All those who retired prematurely were forced by redundancy to make a decision about their future employment status . |
| 26 | You just behaved as you , in fact , naturally were and had no time for the black arts of propaganda . |
| 27 | This was equally , and perhaps more , marked in local politics in the cities , dominated as these naturally were by the bourgeois ( i.e. normally Liberal ) notables of the place . |
| 28 | The plots allowed to regenerate naturally were dominated by shrubs and trees on the unfertilized ones , though by herbs on those that had been fertilized . |
| 29 | He celebrated his election victory with a greasy knife and fork and a snooze : fried eggs , bacon , sausage and fried bread at 8am were followed by two hours in bed . |
| 30 | Gulliver ( 1979 ) , investigating infant teachers ' assumptions in listening to reading , argued that the ploys that teachers used in helping children read aloud were patterned by their underlying perceptions of reading . |