Example sentences of "were [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crates of beer were stacked ready for consumption . |
| 2 | The aims of these were to curb indiscriminate outdoor relief ; if the poor were not sufficiently desperate to enter the workhouse they could not be really in need . |
| 3 | Most of the Jokaero spy-flies were transmitting tiny facets of war 's aftermath within the city , a grim mosaic . |
| 4 | From school I knew this parable by heart , and I think the reader must have known it too , because as he reached the concluding sentences , his frail hands were already feeling for the embroidered marker and preparing to close the great heavy book , so that his eyes were not on the page but were gazing unseeing into mine as he spoke the final well-worn words , ‘ Then said Jesus unto him , ‘ Go , and do thou likewise . ’ ’ |
| 5 | Quite a large sum of money was created partly out of existing funds ( of LEA ) which were to support in-service in schools that had been identified by some kind of functional group in the school … |
| 6 | Detectives were manning special hotline phones after a tape was broadcast on BBC 1 's Crimewatch UK in the hope that someone may recognise Britain 's most wanted man . |
| 7 | And they er er they said people getting on this train er it was on the eleven , platform eleven near to where we were make sure , they kept giving it out giving it out , you must get out at Leamington Spa if you want Banbury . |
| 8 | On this were arranged thick candles in red glass jars , two vases of dahlias , a small plaster statue of Our Lady . |
| 9 | ‘ We passed outside the city walls , and after a little walk , entered ; i green garden door , and made our way to a little plain square building , in which were arranged wooden benches , a pulpit and below the pulpit a plain wooden table and chair . |
| 10 | In the circumstances James Cunningham felt that Captain Robert Cunningham 's election hopes would be considerably strengthened if Morris were proven wrong , and accordingly advised Lord Milton that |
| 11 | For the first time in history the Japanese people were enjoying real freedom rather than the autocracy and totalitarianism which they had suffered prior to August 1945 . |
| 12 | THE COMBINED Birmingham Railway Museum and Birmingham Mail ‘ Santa Specials ’ were enjoying good publicity and seat booking for the first two Sundays in December . |
| 13 | Meanwhile less than 20 miles away , St Johnstone , a team with a less prestigious history were enjoying increased attendances , a newly won Premier status , record profits and were warmly ensconced in a purpose built all-seater stadium . |
| 14 | Four years ago Pepsi and Shirlie were enjoying considerable chart success and media attention . |
| 15 | His family were enjoying wonderful home-grown vegetables . |
| 16 | Er and I remember , I remember Street West , when the right hand side of Street west going from Road , every house was empty before the First World War and they gave somebody er somebody who lives in the end one and they were rent free if they keep all the rest clean , and always you see house to let where wherever it was in every street there was houses to let , and the price of the house in Street must be about eight shillings a week in those days , and then if you went up to I mean you 'd get in the twelve and sixpenny bracket and down in , those houses down in the that they were ten and six or something like that er |
| 17 | This anomaly could , however , be remedied if the courts were to embrace novel theories of what constitutes loss given the novel essence of insider dealing . |
| 18 | Nonetheless he believed that they were seeing genuine effects that were inexplicable unless fusion were taking place . |
| 19 | The official statistics revealed that even legal abortions were outstripping live births in the 1980s . |
| 20 | Agency records , which recorded all referrals , were checked weekly to confirm that ASWs had completed questionnaires where relevant . |
| 21 | Among these were a number of scions of William the Conqueror 's knights whose descendants were to wield great influence in Scotland 's tumultuous history : Bernard de Bailleul ( later Balliol ) ; Robert de Brus ( Bruce or ‘ the Bruce ’ ) ; and Walter FitzAlan , who became hereditary Steward of Scotland , a title leading ultimately to the name and royal family of Stewart . |
| 22 | At least 95pc of emergency calls were responded to within the agreed 19 minutes and the remaining 5pc were delayed due to exceptional circumstances . |
| 23 | Both factions were firing anti-aircraft guns and large-calibre machine guns indiscriminately at civilian housing . |
| 24 | Tracer laid stitches across the sky : the bombers still in formation were firing long shots at him . |
| 25 | Whilst dealers were firing difficult questions at the representative of an CTC traded company on the floor of one licensed dealer a couple of light fingered dealers were at work , helping themselves to their colleagues leads . |
| 26 | Another volley of musketry hammered from the French who were firing blind into the tall crops . |
| 27 | Also , from his many comments about violent reactions to remedies , the sensitive patients he saw , were producing undesirable aggravations which he constantly sought to escape from . |
| 28 | Archie and his mate were producing super spliced tip rods well before the Shakespeare international came onto the scene . |
| 29 | W. B. Glover maintains in his valuable study of Nonconformist reaction to ‘ higher criticism ’ that ‘ by 1900 the Nonconformists were producing biblical scholars with international reputations ’ . |
| 30 | Routine patrols were producing regular revenue seizures , mostly of tobacco goods and spirits as a result of interceptions of yachts , fishing vessels and rummages of merchant ships within the various ports visited . |