Example sentences of "were [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She still wanted to look as she did in waking life , but there were improvements she could make . |
| 2 | We knew that inside were climbers who had been on the same route , who had seen us , who had spoken to us . |
| 3 | The student 's willingness , however , to involve John and to try and behave fairly towards him were acts which potentially respected both his rationality and his vulnerability . |
| 4 | To be the first over the wall of a castle or town which was being stormed ; to be encamped close to the wall of a besieged city and thus within range of missiles fired from its walls , these were acts which merited honour and respect . |
| 5 | They were sheep who had decided that this was no time to waste energy panicking when it could be used for galloping away as fast as possible . |
| 6 | And when you were pros you did , you got all the mucky jobs to do as well . |
| 7 | Some were housewives who had been called up under the call up for women of forty-five to fifty . |
| 8 | There were scales I would hear in music and I used to think to myself , ‘ I need to learn that scale , ’ or , ‘ I need to learn how he got that effect using that scale with those chords , ’ and basically what Joe gave me was that sort of thinking . |
| 9 | I think it were Jes what were telling you . |
| 10 | In every city there were cinemas which specialized in what the Milwaukee Sentinel called ‘ immoral , evilly suggestive and crime-inducing spectacles ’ . |
| 11 | Of course , there were exams which had to be passed to let me into College but these were accomplished by hard , but guided work . |
| 12 | As with all siblings there were fights which Diana , being bigger and stronger , invariably won . |
| 13 | It is ironic that his greatest financial disasters were projects which resulted from the interest which both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert showed in his work . |
| 14 | Mr Catterall said they never found the dog but there were signs it had been dug out by someone else . |
| 15 | And there were there were artists who the artist . |
| 16 | For humanities students , as for science students , the values that attracted them to a subject were values which were also important to them as individuals . |
| 17 | When the teller announced the Magharba vote at 1235 , implying a Magharba majority , the Zuwaya immediately protested that Magharba were present who had no right to vote : after a check of identity cards some men left and they began the vote again , this time counting both groups of supporters as they passed behind their goals . |
| 18 | The primitive sound of it stirred something deep inside me as though it were Pan himself , not some Indian labourer , playing those haunting notes on that rude instrument . |
| 19 | We speak of ‘ stars ’ and ‘ trees ’ as though they were entities which we had mastered in our post-Newtonian , materialist fashion . |
| 20 | Oliver said that could have been easily accomplished by telling Shildon where they really were and if it were Shildon she had heard going through a desk in the typists ' room he must already have found out . |
| 21 | In the first place , in a style in which one of the fundamental problems had always been the reconciliation of solid form with the picture plane , the letters written or stencilled across the surface are the most conclusive way of emphasizing its two-dimensional character ; Braque has stressed this when he said of the letters : ‘ they were forms which could not be distorted because , being quite flat , the letters existed outside space and their presence in the painting , by contrast , enabled one to distinguish between objects situated in space and those outside it . ’ |
| 22 | Associated with this destruction deposit were coins which ended with Carausius and this could place the desecration under Constantine , rather than in the middle of the fourth century , but better evidence must survive in the unexcavated areas of the site . |
| 23 | Borrow 's family came from St. Cleer and , he claimed , were gentlefolk who had long lived at Tredinnock and had their own coat of arms . |
| 24 | They were con-men who work the black market and although they spent the whole of the next day in Irkutsk taking me to lunch , visiting a host of Siberian churches and museums and organising a trip to the opera , their interest was in valutta — hard currency — not culture . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's really what I wanted to be like — all the cosmetics mentioned were products I used growing up . ’ |
| 26 | Even while he admired Nona and loved her , there were times he wanted to say : ‘ Look , Nona , there is this thing you have to take into account between us . ’ |
| 27 | They were attitudes which permitted no doubt about free-labour sugar driving out the produce of slaves or the consequent steady march towards emancipation through the rigours of the market combined with amelioration . |
| 28 | There were secrets she would prefer to keep to herself . |
| 29 | She stood in front of the mirror and in front of her mother , and she suffered because she knew that there was no escape ; the reasons why the dress would not do were reasons which could never be communicated . |
| 30 | Lord Denning concluded that the proposition did not apply in this case and that there were reasons which a reasonable minister could entertain and so there was no ground on which the court could interfere with the minister 's decision to ask for a ballot order . |