Example sentences of "[adj] were [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silly , crazy antics like this were all part of being young . |
| 2 | I 've often heard people say , ‘ You can always see someone worse off than yourself , ca n't you ? ’ as if this were any comfort ! |
| 3 | The shops were mostly dreary Woolworth-type places , and they were all shut , but there was a surprising number of people wandering around , as if this were some kind of marvellous place to take an evening stroll . |
| 4 | Letting the words flow over her Jezrael waited , standing loose , as though this were some jam dance session . |
| 5 | So high were these prison walls , indeed , that they left you wondering at the build of the common Italian criminal . |
| 6 | ‘ How old were these kids ? ’ |
| 7 | How old were these children Nelly ? |
| 8 | Rather different were those heads who avoided not only confrontation but also contact , taking refuge in their office and resorting to memoranda rather than face-to-face encounters . |
| 9 | How much were these Gail ? |
| 10 | How much were these Mary ? |
| 11 | But how much were these promises worth ? |
| 12 | There were tortoises , very similar to the mainland forms except that these were many times bigger , giants that a man could ride . |
| 13 | Within these were many divisions ; and the second and third , in particular , obscure one of the great barriers , that between freedom and unfreedom , to which we must return . |
| 14 | Until the recent amnesty it housed just under 3,000 inmates at 80 per cent capacity ; some 2,000 of these were former members of the National Guard . |
| 15 | And I must stress that these were all problem patients and if tumours were present they were recorded as so on that previous slide but they were often present in greatly reduced numbers . |
| 16 | But these were all women . |
| 17 | Yet these were all women who , ten years ago , would have called themselves liberated , independent , ambitious . |
| 18 | The paraphernalia of capitalism — the banks , mortgages , moneylenders , credit , exchange rates , inflation , Jewish competition , Polish labour — these were all things that German small business had learned to fear and mistrust as its economy had , without the buffer of empire , ridden the rollercoaster of boom and slump between the Franco-Prussian wars and the Great War . |
| 19 | These were all things that er you . |
| 20 | These were all forms which failed towards the end of the Cretaceous , except for the crocodilian which still live on , virtually unchanged , today . |
| 21 | Lugh said with amused tolerance that these were all fairy tales , but some of the soldiers said , were they indeed . |
| 22 | These were all advantages accruing to the defendants which can fairly be said to have been in consideration of their undertaking to pay the additional £10,300 . |
| 23 | Temperance-style mass meetings , schemes for moral reclamation and placing prostitutes in domestic service , the setting up of rescue homes — these were all part of the feminist alternative to medical regulation . |
| 24 | She still admired her education and artistic breadth but had come to realise that these were all Miss Hatherby could share with her . |
| 25 | The Gregorian calendar ; European officers to train her armed forces ; steam power for her industry ; central banking ; a new peerage specially created so as to make orthodox bicameral government possible by providing the material for an Upper House ; the codification of her law ; a representative system : these were all pieces of the structure of a new Japan which was at last crowned by alliance with one European power and victory in war over another ( see below , Ch. 8 ) . |
| 26 | These were all blows for the home side yet , with skipper John Rafferty providing the kind of leadership that is reserved for ‘ Boys Own ’ stories , Armagh suddenly hauled themselves out of the grave . |
| 27 | To suggest , however , that these were all wrinklies dusting off the cobwebs to have one final fling before a tranquil retirement would be a serious misapprehension . |
| 28 | But if these were all roles he played , they were necessary ones ; they protected a man who could be extremely shy and nervous in the company of other people . |
| 29 | one of the criticisms or possible criticisms of the M R C figures was that these were all patients who had been entered into superficial bladder cancer studies and they do n't therefore re represent all because people are selected to go into the trial and perhaps they are lower risk patients than others and in fact I believe that the recurrence rate in the M R C studies are lower than you would expect for er superficial bladder cancer in general . |
| 30 | It struck Nathan that these were all people who had been unable to get in . |