Example sentences of "were [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a way they were right but , thankfully , I was never hanged though I was close to it on many occasions . |
| 2 | SHe knew he was holed up at Roirbak 's place , and was convinced hir instincts were right that Malamute hated Penumbra and was coping with moral dilemmas about what he 'd done for her . |
| 3 | The pessimistic thing was , the Hobbesians always looked back to the past , some golden age of order in the past , you know , when , when people knew what to do and er , and er , things were right as it were , and th they tend to want to restore some ideal state of order and authority that existed in the past , which was much better than now , because civilization has gone to the dogs , and been corrupted and so on . |
| 4 | The critical hypotheses to be tested in our study were rather that there are no differences between groups than that there are differences . |
| 5 | Sometimes when the little ones were weakly or had been abandoned by their mothers , we would have to take them inside and feed them by hand . |
| 6 | This move was bitterly attacked by the planning profession , though in the event the process of scheme preparation quickened during the later 1930s ; by the end of the decade London and most of the large towns were wholly or almost wholly under planning control . |
| 7 | In 36 of these , the submissions were wholly or partially approved and the courses will commence in the autumn . |
| 8 | Given the certainty that freebooters were among the raiding armies , it is clearly possible that the contingents contributed by Swegen and Cnut were wholly or partly comprised of such men too , rather than exclusively of Danish levies . |
| 9 | Liebowitz and Horowitz were primarily concerned with attacking what they saw as the myopic perspectives of politics and the sociology of deviance , but the clear implication of their convergence thesis was that conventional deviance and leftist political struggle were slowly but surely converging . |
| 10 | Trade continued to fluctuate in the 1880s , and from now on worries were regularly expressed in the STC : " however reluctant we may have been to realise the position into which we were slowly but surely drifting " the threat was now a permanent reality . " |
| 11 | Even now , the extremities of the grass , where it dipped to meet the mudline , were slowly and silently being invaded by the dark water as the tide reached its zenith . |
| 12 | However , these were rarely as vehement or focused as those of their Phase 3 colleagues . ) |
| 13 | The barbotine technique allowed the potters to display these with a fluid eloquence , although the addition of triple tails of imaginative and flamboyant form clearly shows that these creatures were rarely if ever seen by the potters , or the artists who provided their models . |
| 14 | The coats were ornately if not fabulously stitched with over a mile of gold thread . |
| 15 | In the beginning , as man developed agriculture and agriculture begat civilisation , animals were economically and ecologically essential parts of the overall enterprise . |
| 16 | In communities which were economically and socially based on growing rice , Goyigama dominance was clear throughout the nineteenth century and beyond . |
| 17 | The Netherlands plan had also envisaged that full EMU could start when only six of the 12 states were economically and politically ready ( rather than seven or eight as proposed by others ) . |
| 18 | Suddenly Star Eye were somewhere where things happened , time was strictly portioned and progressed at the same rate . |
| 19 | By their words and conduct in the shop , including their production of the goods and signing of the receipts , they were expressly or impliedly incriminating themselves . |
| 20 | The real fraud was committed by the appointing officers , who were inadvertently or , worse , deliberately subverting the publicly declared equal opportunities policy of their health authority or trust . |
| 21 | Now the bureaucrats and Louis were below while Gomez , lazily watchful , sat on the saloon cabin top . |
| 22 | And Selvey 's summing-up was worthy of a high court judge : very frivolous , and most them marginal , but only five of the 34 wickets were leg-before and even those were of an apparently arbitrary nature : those given seemed to have no more merit than many that were not . ’ |
| 23 | Derisively he added , ‘ And I 'm sure you were nicely and conventionally brought up . |
| 24 | Emigrations to both America and Australia were overland but after the ice-caps melted some 10000 years ago , those populations became isolated from the others . |
| 25 | ‘ The results were much as we had expected in an extremely tough year , ’ said Mr Heath yesterday . |
| 26 | In the shops things were much as usual because wholesalers and suppliers were still using existing stocks . |
| 27 | And then it would get dark , and , since conditions were much as they were last night , there would be mist over the marshes — it was coming up a little on my walk . |
| 28 | The shutters were all but useless . |
| 29 | There was one girl in particular who interested Harriet , a small girl with hair cut gamin short , whose face was so expressive that it seemed to reflect every one of the emotions that they were all feeling , these midinettes who had basted hemlines and stitched hooks and eyes into place , positioned trimmings and sewed them into place with such tiny stitches that they were all but invisible to the naked eye . |
| 30 | Weighing it all up , Ramsay came to the conclusion that the chances of capturing the usurper at this stage were all but non-existent , and that their wisest course was to return at once with his dire news to the main Scots array in Annandale or wherever it had reached by now . |