Example sentences of "were [adv] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the largest and most common seizures were normally of cannabis either of the herbal type or the more concentrated cannabis resin . |
| 2 | At the age of 18 her pupil was enthusiastically tracing the origins of Christian doctrine , reading works that were normally of interest only to scholarly clerics and ecclesiastical historians . |
| 3 | Well er the sheep they were usually only the ewes , when they the lamb so they were usually on tethers just on bits of grass . |
| 4 | But the two sides were still at loggerheads yesterday on the details of expanded , voluntary limits on EC steel exports to the US , to replace five-year-old quotas which expired on Saturday . |
| 5 | They were out at work often till late evening , but gave us the run of the house and William had the chance to get on with some schoolwork . |
| 6 | and Oxford go chasing their third win in a row at Sunderland tomorrow … in division three Hereford are just chasing anything they can get … they were out of luck again at scarborough on saturday |
| 7 | MEMBERS of the Wallace clan were out in force yesterday on Glasgow Green for a morning of traditional dance and music , to help raise funds to establish a new clan seat . |
| 8 | They were back in Nottingham again on 29 July , making further enquiries . |
| 9 | TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop . |
| 10 | Women , though at one time excluded from most public functions , were never by reason merely of their sex in a substantially different position from men as regards criminal liability , property and contract , if we except the rule ( now nearly obsolete ) which prefers males to females in the succession to real estate on intestacy . |