Example sentences of "[noun] were [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kingsholm was full to bursting … but where was the passion … where was the pride as Bath bulldozed their way to victory … the Gloucester faithful fell silent as their side were well and truly beaten … there was only one try … that was scored by Tony Swift early on … |
| 2 | Below her hospital gown , her legs were still as she remembered — although her reinforced thigh and shin bones made them two and a half inches longer . |
| 3 | He recognised that many of the first and second generation of industrial urbanites were morally and socially disorientated — in a state of anomie or normlessness ( a sort of perpetual culture shock ) . |
| 4 | At the same time , and regardless of the lack of other than financial support from the Authority , certain schools were tirelessly and effectively tackling the needs of these children in the comprehensive way required . |
| 5 | Kalashnikov-toting guards were everywhere and armed carabinieri escorted teams to and from the Athletes ' Village — the hotels Ergife Palace and Princess . |
| 6 | The critical hypotheses to be tested in our study were rather that there are no differences between groups than that there are differences . |
| 7 | Well they th th the kids were there but |
| 8 | Some heads were temperamentally and intellectually less inclined than others to perceive education in terms of grand statements and ringing slogans . |
| 9 | I advised my master it would be dangerous to go through the city as the Cardinal 's spies were everywhere and they might question our journey to Sheen . |
| 10 | In October 1987 , when his days at Arsenal were well and truly numbered , Nicholas flew to the French Riviera with Arsenal 's chief executive Ken Friar . |
| 11 | Arsenal were home and dry . |
| 12 | In a flash , her hazy pictures were well and truly dissolved . |
| 13 | Pictures were completely and utterly silent except for the whirr of the projector , or the mutterings of the projectionist when he changed reels and dropped one . |
| 14 | Money was still short and days were long , and parties were often and red wine was cheap . |
| 15 | The section shaikhs and Ibrahim al-Sanusi were there because they had to guarantee to the Zliten people that all Zuwaya would accept the peace they had arranged . |
| 16 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 17 | and the RAF lads were there and |
| 18 | Frau Schmidt came in and said the gentlemen were here and please , should she bring coffee in now or later . |
| 19 | Their husbands were away and they did n't know if they 'd come back or not and er , one girl er th this was n't at the , near where I used to live at . |
| 20 | His eyes were still as still pools for a moment as he looked and then suddenly became like spikes . |
| 21 | by no means were all chairmen tyrants , but the opportunities were there and had made possible the emergence of uncontrollable ‘ powerhouse ’ figures such as Judge Howard Smith of Virginia , the chairman of the House Rules Committee , and Wilbur Mills of Arkansas , the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee . |
| 22 | The country with the largest single vote in the IMF , the largest recipient of OPEC funds and the key issuer of international money was being run by a president whose attentions were more and more focused on saving his own skin . |
| 23 | In the beginning , as man developed agriculture and agriculture begat civilisation , animals were economically and ecologically essential parts of the overall enterprise . |
| 24 | All data sets obtained were initially analysed to determine whether data were normally or abnormally distributed . |
| 25 | On May 31 President Ramiz Alia appealed in the People 's Assembly for patience : the strikers ' demands were just but they could not be met immediately , he said . |
| 26 | However limited , codetermination does serve to remind employers both of the days when their prerogatives were generally and seriously challenged and of the fact that such a situation could recur . |
| 27 | Canada also proposed an escalator clause for an airline to increase services if its aircraft were more than 65 per cent full . |
| 28 | ‘ Have the children not been told ? ’ the nursemaid enquired of Aunt Rose once Victoria and Richard were ahead and out of ear-shot . |
| 29 | They wrote as they breathed , and their talk and their books were openly and unblushingly self-revelatory . |
| 30 | And he wanted to know why the books were there and . |