Example sentences of "[adv] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The electrical forces that were the problem in getting the like-charged hydrogen nuclei together were at least being put to good use in attracting them into the palladium prison . |
| 4 | We obviously were in discussions with the MoD . |
| 5 | Two of the three brothers only were at home , and one of her sisters , who hung on our every word . |
| 6 | It may therefore become of some importance , who it was told you that they 'd been in prison together and so were at least known to each other . |
| 7 | Philip had opened the proceedings by again suggesting an exchange of conquests , but Richard opposed this , arguing that this would mean that he gave up lands , including the Quercy , which brought him an annual revenue of a thousand marks or more , in return for estates in Berry which , though they were fiefs belonging to Aquitaine , were in fact held by other lords and so were of very little direct financial benefit to him . |
| 8 | so were onto marriage , you see I started trying to talking about love and here we are |
| 9 | Were , we 're not attached to any sort of department , like housing or leisure , were actually in the organisation , were in the general management department and were not alone erm , the planning er originally the general manager 's department and the winners and equality unit are in that department as well and the general manager has his own erm policy , officer and secretarian , so were in the general manager 's department and in other Council 's that would be known as the Chief Executive Department . |
| 10 | The ones she had just knocked down were on their feet again , hopping on the steps around her . |
| 11 | In what sounds like computer industry heresy , Gupta Corp , Menlo Park told Reuter that it is looking to higher prices for its more advanced software products to help it achieve sharply higher earnings in 1993 : ‘ Our prices are going up as the functionality and performance of our software increases along with the functionality and performance of personal computer networks , ’ chief executive Umang Gupta said ; the company will introduce two new versions of its SQLWindows 4.0 software later this month ; the standard version at $2,000 , a more advanced one at $3,500 ; he says its only prices going down were for communications routing software . |
| 12 | But the first time I did use it I thought me inside were on fire . |
| 13 | In contrast the absentee landowners alone were worth £33 , of which two-thirds belonged to a single leading proprietor , Lady St Leger ; the inhabitants totalled nearly £8 more . |
| 14 | They alone were on key . |
| 15 | Although 15 per cent of the younger elderly women living alone were in paid work , this did not lift the income of the age-group to an appreciable extent , because of the poor wages they received . |
| 16 | They alone were in unorthodox dress . |
| 17 | They had access to the schedule to be used ( Document 2 ) and thus were in a position to know what criteria would be used to observe and evaluate them . |
| 18 | Complaints from the regional Propaganda Offices that neither press , nor radio , nor newsreels were reporting anything about the Führer any longer were to no avail . |
| 19 | I remember at the time that all the crews felt a great deal happier being so much nearer the rest of the Lancs and Halifaxes , and no longer were in great danger of our oppoes dropping bombs and incendiaries on us . |
| 20 | This and other theatres elsewhere were at their peak when the gentry came in for the Quarter Sessions ; for wives and marriageable daughters , there were the balls and concerts of the Assembly Rooms specially built at the back of the George Hotel . |
| 21 | The best were in the city of Budapest which is divided by the river Danube into the hilly right bank where Buda is situated and the flatter lands opposite of Pest . |
| 22 | And then he claims that the list of circumstances above were among the factors needed to produce the revolution in Russia . |
| 23 | However , working women generally were by no means in favour of the double burden of work at home and in the factory and Mary MacArthur may well have spoken for a majority when she said : ‘ We are all familiar with the old ideal that women 's place is in the home , and I am sufficiently old fashioned to agree that there is something to be said for it ’ . |
| 24 | Of these , 837,905 were ‘ gainfully occupied ’ ( this term included unemployed , casual , and part-time workers ) , of which 693,624 individuals were in work ; 2,097,146 men and women aged 65 and over were in receipt of old age pensions ( and about one-tenth of these also received public assistance ) . |
| 25 | The roads are hairpins , up and down , and they 're , they 're not tarmacked and so erm you often saw er buses that had fallen over the sides down into the river or that just were on their side , and that erm that obviously there 'd been accidents . |
| 26 | Even when non-Anglican protestants had become accepted as citizens in England and Ireland towards the end of the eighteenth century as they already were in Scotland and Wales , English and Irish catholics remained politically suspect . |
| 27 | The profound changes in the economy and society which had swept the old feudal practices away were for Marx and Engels merely an expression of the profound changes which had first taken place in the mode of production . |
| 28 | By contrast , most objects thrown away were by definition worn out , broken , or regarded as useless . |
| 29 | Where the great lake joined the river , at Drumshanbo , we headed directly southward and soon were in neat white Leitrim Village , a row of houses up and down a hillside street . |
| 30 | Out of the 35% in favour , 33% and 11% respectively were from solicitors in medium-sized and larger practices . |