Example sentences of "were [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , although they were worth less on the open market than if they had been in ‘ good ’ condition , they were still fit for the purpose for which the buyer wanted them ( making into cattle food ) and were still so upon arrival . |
| 32 | Kit Kats were about all I could afford . |
| 33 | And it were about that height . |
| 34 | Another group just said , they were rooms one through ten , and er one of the tank farm group said , we did n't know exactly where we were but this was I think the assumptions that Group two told me were er , were about that . |
| 35 | I 'm not joking , his leg his legs were about that wide right ? |
| 36 | But if you imagine when you were about this high and someone gives you a ball to kick and you you fall over and you , Right I 'm not trying that again . |
| 37 | the numbers you 've had them since you were about this big |
| 38 | NO ADDRESSES Mr Pearson said he thought there were about another 200 premises for which they had no addresses . |
| 39 | Comparisons between the three race groups were between those living in the same small areas i.e. in roughly the same circumstances , rather than over a whole city or London borough . |
| 40 | He and Jeff were out most of the time , trying to track down the speedboat , for which a popular local search had been mounted , and he was hardly ever at the villa . |
| 41 | Bill Beeby , of Boeing Aircraft Co in the United States , in his description of their search for an integrated manufacturing system , claims that they were nearest that goal when the firm was first set up to make sports planes for their wealthy owner . |
| 42 | On the other hand , some expressed the very destructive attitude ( discussed earlier in the chapter ) that expectations should not be too great , as they were after all ‘ only volunteers ’ . |
| 43 | Also , as West European capitalism filtered across Germany and set in motion the inevitable homogenisation of markets and language within the customs union , the reaction of the Polish subject people , who were after all not the primary , nor even secondary , beneficiaries of capitalist modes of production and the spread of profit , and who had behind them a different set of cultural and political orientations , was similar to that of the Germans . |
| 44 | There were after all a dozen appropriate texts he could have quoted . |
| 45 | ‘ I was greatly heartened and told myself I must previously have misjudged the situation — that my subjects were after all behind me and would see that right was done . ’ |
| 46 | It was somewhat outside his province and yet , he thought , anyone who was willing to leave a Western nuclear establishment to help Dr Tariq build his atom bomb was either an idiot or a traitor , and traitors were after all his special subject . |
| 47 | They were after all the most active members , including myself . |
| 48 | Canova 's work , with its delicacy of surface effect , invites close scrutiny , as the subtle modulations of surface were after all best understood , according to contemporary practices , by examination at close quarters by candlelight . |
| 49 | ‘ I do n't think they really notice the noise themselves , ’ said Bob , slightly irritated that she should presume to call them silly when they were after all his friends . |
| 50 | They were after all , both of them , Sagittarians . |
| 51 | These were after all the two leading literary journals . |
| 52 | Men and women , everyone agreed , were after all free and equal ; marriage was a symbol of bourgeois oppression . |
| 53 | Ten days later , Falkenhayn was on the telephone himself , expressing the fear that the British were after all about to attempt a relief operation , ‘ and probably a landing attempt ’ It was hardly surprising that on April 17th Rupprecht — irritated and not keen to be involved in another of Falkenhayn 's half-measure offensives that he deplored — coolly declined his invitation to attack the British , pointing to the strong reinforcements now in the line . |
| 54 | ‘ Then it would surprise you , perhaps , to learn that Kao Chen was one of the two assassins you were after that day ten years ago . ’ |
| 55 | If his education were below that of his audience he could not fall back on the validity of the Sacraments he administered for support . |
| 56 | Right well you twenty five thousand a year is about the minimum the company er you would n't be doing the job if you were below that . |
| 57 | In this even more marginal world of cross-cultural perception and social contrast , the statistical truths I was consistently having to produce for local politicians , senior officers , the press , and the public in Newcastle were of little value , especially when discussion on the structures surrounding approval or illegality of some drug use was a matter which might encompass problems of economic , geographical , cultural , or even religious boundaries , or more likely the changing political whim or opportunity of the moment . |
| 58 | Road , air , and even river transport were of little significance by comparison with the railways . |
| 59 | But for other cancers they were of little use . |
| 60 | There was mention of some art history work , a few articles for various journals and a cataloguing job for one of the museums but it was clear that for Maidstone these were of little importance and did not really qualify for the title of job . |