Example sentences of "[conj] were [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were failing to recognize or were positively discounting the rights of those dissenting from their particular views of public order , and subjecting that dissent to the full coercion of the state . |
| 2 | Most of the programs Carter proposed either were never passed or were drastically rewritten by Congress . ’ |
| 3 | At times I feel a wee bit guilty having returned home to Scotland all in one piece , when so many of my friends have died or were badly injured . |
| 4 | Of the opposing parties , a score of men lost their lives or were badly hurt on each side . |
| 5 | In about half the countries in the world governments had imprisoned people for their beliefs , while more than 100 governments had resorted to torture or the maltreatment of prisoners ; thousands of people had " disappeared " or were extra-judicially executed in 29 countries , most notably in Sri Lanka , Brazil , El Salvador , Guatemala and Peru . |
| 6 | People unhappy with the Major government may have told interviewers they intended to vote for one of the opposition parties even though they had not made up their minds or were even leaning towards the Tories . |
| 7 | In many areas , there were even more boundaries in the landscape than are used today , or were even apparent in the nineteenth century on tithe and other estate records . |
| 8 | The debate has moved on and new elements have crept in which make devolution attractive to many people who perhaps did not feel so strongly about it or were even hostile to it in earlier days . |
| 9 | It appeared that the naval guns , about five or six miles back in the English Channel , were either trying to break another German attack or were just shelling the enemy positions ! |
| 10 | It is sour grapes , they say , because the candidates no doubt sent in many copies of their CV without response ; fell by the wayside in competition with better candidates ; failed to convince the would-be employer that they were right for the job ; or were just plain unlucky and not in the right place at the right time . |
| 11 | Well tell me what it was like for you , from your point of view , erm , erm coming to a New Town with a teenage son because most of the couples who came either did n't have any children or were just about to have baby |
| 12 | It seems probable that Kent imported material directly from the Frankish world ; Scandinavian imports to Kent may have come directly or were also channelled through Francia . |
| 13 | At first I was not aware that all the crews in the PFF had been selected by their Groups and , in the main , were either second tour volunteers or were well advanced on their first tour . |
| 14 | Transcript concentrations for genes in that deleted DNA were assessed by hybridization with various probes ( Figure 1 ) , which either overlapped the deleted zone ( SE 162 , HE 143 ) or were completely included thereby ( ND4 , cytochrome b ) . |
| 15 | Boy assumed that it was up to him to find out if these bars were closed , were unfashionable , were dangerous or were simply too expensive for him to visit … |
| 16 | No one in racing is above ringing round for spare rides ; one great jump jockey was nicknamed ‘ Ting-a-Ling ’ because of his speed and skill in contacting trainers whose jockeys were injured or could n't do the weight or were simply out of favour . |
| 17 | Journalists who repeated this accusation either had not read the Report , or were simply being malicious . |
| 18 | The offerings expressed the individual 's gratitude to God for his goodness , or were simply spontaneous expressions of devotion . |
| 19 | However , for several years now there have been low cost cameras like Polaroid 's Palette that provided a quick and effective alternative for those who either needed total confidentiality or were simply rather less fussy about the quality . |
| 20 | Much of this time could be wasted while children awaited the teacher 's attention or were simply distracted . |
| 21 | Were an heir under 18 years of age to accede , or the monarch to become mentally or physically incapacitated from acting , or were otherwise not available ‘ for some definite cause ’ , it would fall to a panel of high officers of state to declare a regency , in which event the person next in line would assume power until a further declaration signified the end of the regency . |
| 22 | Where reports have led to legislation ( see also Chapter 4 ) , or were otherwise very influential , we have tried to indicate this . |
| 23 | Broadly , and allowing for over-simplification of the two books , Mr Kee and Mr Mullin allege that the confessions were beaten out of them by the police interrogating them , and that the forensic tests were either doctored so as to appear positive , or were otherwise unreliable . |
| 24 | Didsbury , St Osyth 's , Worcester and others which had previously had discussions with the CNAA were either already back in discussion , or were soon to be so . |
| 25 | In fact , as it turned out , the great majority of the 300,000 German troops reported by Schmidt-Richberg as approaching Austria on 13 May were cut off from reaching the frontier by Tito 's forces , or were already in the process of surrendering inside Yugoslavia . |
| 26 | As reported , the authors found ‘ disturbing ’ the fact that half of the sample CID investigations they examined were lacking in some details or were actually unsatisfactory ’ . |
| 27 | S and was that the the whole wage for the whole family or were there other members of the family working ? |
| 28 | Was it universally backward or were there variations between different sectors and branches of industry ? |
| 29 | Were they the only agent or were there other agents ? |
| 30 | And then after that when the ship was finished , then they used to sort that all out , the timber , different sizes , then y and then or were there , their own people to stack the timber and when they stacked it , they stacked it and they used to put splines between each layer of timber and that was to season the timber . |