Example sentences of "were [adv] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many thousands of Western women and children were eventually able to fly out of Baghdad beginning on Sept. 1 , following permission given by Saddam Hussein on Aug. 28 [ see p. 37639 ] . |
| 2 | What no one told the audience was that although the band 's instruments were apparently all wired up for sound , Shakatak was actually miming to a tape it had recorded in a Shepperton studio the night before . |
| 3 | She had no illusions about why her children were so willing to shell out for their mother 's annual pilgrimage . |
| 4 | The restrictions which bound individual Japanese to conformity were less those laid down by law than the more pervasive ones of social ethic and social convention which discouraged a ‘ selfish ’ individualist approach . |
| 5 | Thus , the majority of this group had not reached the point of their heroin career where becoming known is most likely and so were less likely to show up in crime statistics , medical records , and so on , than longer-term users . |
| 6 | Then what happened was the AIDS crisis became apparent at the point where I was ill and , suddenly , all these people that were right-on theoreticians were suddenly all going on about AIDS . |
| 7 | According to Professor Thomis , it is " an area of agreement " that wages were generally unable to keep up with steeply rising food prices , while Mathias , pointing to rising money wages as a feature of the period , concludes that inflating prices generally outpaced them . |
| 8 | They were not afraid to come in after her . |
| 9 | Some of the children at school went out to do a traffic count recently and there was so much volume of traffic that the children were not able to keep up with th putting the in the to keep up with the volume of traffic . |
| 10 | According to K.M. Briggs , hobyahs were ‘ terrified of dogs , and with good reason , for they were finally all eaten up by a large black dog ’ ( from The Fairies in Tradition and Literature ) . |
| 11 | It could be argued that had England scored faster on the second day they would have won comfortably , but having controlled the game from the beginning they were desperately unlucky to lose out to the weather ; and for the fans listening at home it was especially frustrating that it was a beautiful evening in England . |
| 12 | England 's external wars were fought principally in France , so most Englishmen had little direct experience of warfare , apart from those in the north , where relations with Scotland were always likely to break out into open hostility . |
| 13 | There were six miles of gauntlet to run before reaching the open sea , and some damaged craft limped through this passage while others were still able to set off at some speed , making smoke cover with their special equipment . |
| 14 | From the window of his room on the top floor of the tenement building , Joe could see down into old Mr Webb 's office at the rear of the shop , and the outline of scores of books were clearly visible poled up against the filthy windows . |
| 15 | They were also useful to pull on over fleece bottoms in colder weather . |
| 16 | We were also supposed to dress up like our mothers , and talk about what we felt . |
| 17 | We were probably all busy out in the fields at the time since it happened at the beginning of September . |
| 18 | On the first issue of political liberalism vs bureaucratic-authoritarianism , the popular dogma of the 1960s and 1970s — in Latin America especially — held that in poor countries , the ruling elites were mainly concerned to hang on to power and also to increase their own wealth , if necessary at the expense of the peasants and the urban proletariat . |
| 19 | Ben parked his newly acquired BMW at the roadside and hoped it would be there when he returned , reassuring himself that in this place of utter solitude car thieves were n't likely to creep out of the hedgerows with duplicate keys . |
| 20 | at four o'clock and we were n't likely to come back till later . |
| 21 | But erm I du n no there 's some of them were n't prepared to carry on with it , you know these youngsters , there was a lot of 'em they would n't , anyway everybody 's not hundred percent you 're not going to get anywhere with anything . |
| 22 | My parents were quite happy to come back to London and stay with me instead ! |
| 23 | Villa were quite unable to get out of their own half after the interval , with Whelan 's precise , perceptive passing aways likely to unhinge them . |
| 24 | Nonetheless , it was also pointed out that screening could be effective in uncovering treatable conditions which sufferers were otherwise likely to put up with as simply the inevitable consequence of old age . |
| 25 | The method was to feed the snails on milk until they were too fat to get back into their shells , then fry them . |
| 26 | The old and infirm who were too feeble to keep up with the band were left behind to die . |
| 27 | As luck would have it , Jean-Claude found he needed some old scores he had put to one side as they were too heavy to bring along with everything else we had had to load on the motor cycle . |
| 28 | I declined a chocolate ; they were too large to take in in one bite and I feared to take two and risk cream and liqueur trickling down my chin . |