Example sentences of "were [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , when Lok looks across to the island in the burgeoning spring , a narratorial simile compares the haze of early spring buds to smoke : " there were buds everywhere on the island too , drifts of them like clouds of bright green smoke " ( p. 101 ) . |
| 2 | People who write adventures tend to forget they were beginners once , making the mighty plains inaccessible for all but the brave and fearless ( like myself ) . |
| 3 | The two , sometimes three , hours spent in the College quadrangle when , we are told , the Professor would courteously listen and give an intelligible answer to every question , and when the instruction he communicated was stamped on the memory by the good temper and joke and repartee with which it was accompanied , these were periods which an old student liked to call to memory , for they were hours pleasantly and usefully passed . |
| 4 | They were selectivists rather than universalists in their approach to welfare spending . |
| 5 | Psychiatric they have erm not been there were proposals originally from the Conservative group to discontinue that service , but as part of the erm negotiations that took place that was withdrawn , but there is a , I think , a ten thousand pound efficiency cut to be made in the P S W service , so it is not being cut , but erm the sum is being reduced , and it will be self-financing out of efficiency measures . |
| 6 | The official last car was E/3 Class , No. 1941 , which left Purley terminus at 11.24 p.m. crowded to capacity and there were crowds all along the road . |
| 7 | Of course it would be absurd to blame contemporary Germans for what the Nazis did ; but , because this judgment lies at the end of a different and independent mode of argument , it is not absurd to suppose that contemporary Germans have special responsibilities because the Nazis were Germans too . |
| 8 | Teaching and organ-playing gave Benjamin James ( hereinafter simply ‘ Benjamin' for the sake of conciseness ) the wherewithal to leave one place for another if he wished to — they were skills more marketable over a wide area than those of his father , for example , who presumably relied upon local contacts and reputation in order to earn a decent living . |
| 9 | Makes you remember all men were hunters once and only the fittest of them survived . |
| 10 | I , like so many others , turned up at ‘ Little Dublin ’ last week expecting to see a good game between the Crues and the Super Whites , but there were groans all round when ‘ Mister Carryduff ’ ran on to officiate . |
| 11 | He took us to Gloucester since Edmund was too young to hold Tracy alone , and then the Empress landed in England , the Sheriff went over to her almost immediately , and we were prisoners once again . ’ |
| 12 | Well there was thousands killed see the infantry was and there were loads more all round you see ? |
| 13 | There were knights there not of Isambard 's following , there were two English clerics of rank whom he did not know , and a burly young man whom he recognised as a nephew of Hubert de Burgh . |
| 14 | On his return to headquarters Stirling discovered there were plans afoot which would have an important impact on the future of his force . |
| 15 | I thought at first they were racoons then I realised they were pandas . |
| 16 | To a large extent the areas nearest to the Mediterranean were the most civilized , but there were cities further north with important cultural traditions , including Lyons , Bordeaux and Autun , and there were other cities , including Trier and Paris , which had at times been the residences of emperors . |
| 17 | I found it coarse , but I did not mind : we were artists together , you see . |
| 18 | There were Crunchies yesterday . |
| 19 | While many of these libraries were on this small scale there were giants also . |
| 20 | One thing that we did was find that there were molecules much , much bigger than was expected in the sense that there were many , many more carbon atoms involved than had previously been thought possible , and even now we just do not understand the processes whereby they are formed . |
| 21 | There were teeth all around him , snapping and gnawing . |
| 22 | And there were times indeed , I think , that the effect of the very strong resistance to public-expenditure cuts and then the promulgation of an alternative economic strategy , which I myself was much concerned with , did have a very considerable effect . |
| 23 | But there were times too when he could not bear to look at the free birds and preferred to huddle wanly in the shadows of his shelter , where no visitors could see him , and stare at the bare , stained concrete that was his wild moorland , and the grubby little basin of water that was his lake and the few square feet of cage that was his sky . |
| 24 | And there were times now , even amidst the hubbub of men , when the numbness reared its head again and made him think that eventually it would take over and he 'd descend into silence , cold unthinking silence . |
| 25 | There were reasons enough for that dreadful thought . |
| 26 | It had three big windows with iron doors and white walls and you used to go into the house up a flight of steps because there were shops underneath . |
| 27 | There were shops solely devoted to hand-made chocolates , sold in boxes quilted like cushions . |
| 28 | There were voices outside and then two heavily-built Algerians came striding in , each wearing an astrakhan hat and a sheepskin car-coat . |
| 29 | There were voices outside as the train came alive . |
| 30 | Whether they were believers BC , I have no idea , but a corollary to their belief must be , why did ‘ God ’ let them get the disease in the first place ? |