Example sentences of "[adv] were [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only were nobles who defected from the support of Otto of Brunswick punished by sentences of excommunication , such as Otto 's brother , Henry the count Palatine , and the duke of Brabant in 1204 – 5 , but also the ecclesiastical hierarchy who as temporal as well as spiritual princes might face revolt on their estates as well as censure from ecclesiastics within the diocese or province . |
| 2 | We knew that inside were climbers who had been on the same route , who had seen us , who had spoken to us . |
| 3 | One man , Hamad Hasan al-Harash , had a notebook in which he wrote down important events as he came across them : some were reports of what very old men had told him thirty or forty years ago ; others were things he had read ; others still were things which had happened to him . |
| 4 | One , both were dumpers I think were n't they ? |
| 5 | His single-minded pursuit of his objectives — which had originally led him to sweep her off her feet in such a masterly fashion — and his instinctive opposition to the challenge before him now were qualities which Laura found truly admirable . |
| 6 | Here were people who shared his ideals and had the financial support of government and industry , while his endeavours had to rely on the begging bowl . |
| 7 | And here were people who wanted him not just for the name on the letter-head , but because they thought he could make a positive contribution . |
| 8 | No doubt the clients he entertained here were people who expected the best . |
| 9 | Chang 's forehand and backhand were shots he hit with early preparation and a low error factor . |
| 10 | Rather than creative individuals being taken as the starting-point , the individuals targeted initially were people who had been diagnosed as having had a mental illness , either a severe ( manic-depressive ) form of affective disorder or the milder , but aetiologically related , mood swings of ‘ cyclothymia ’ . |
| 11 | Specialised studies of sex as a social experience have been appearing for almost a hundred years , since at least the time of the great pioneering sexologists and anthropologists of the late nineteenth century ; and what appeared then were works which have been profoundly influential , not only in describing but in constructing and delineating the areas to be discussed . |
| 12 | The wine glasses , tumblers , pipes and so on were articles which each painter handled regularly in the course of day-to-day life . |