Example sentences of "[adv] were [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How long were you Lady Eleanor 's companion ? ’ |
| 2 | Not only were we children interested in primroses but in other small flowers of spring such as violets , cowslips and later daisies , buttercups , bluebells and honeysuckle . |
| 3 | As Ross monopolised her company , and claimed her for every dance , Laura was dimly aware that not only were her friends amazed , and frankly envious , but that she and Ross were the focus of all eyes , and much gossip . |
| 4 | Not only were her savings gone , but so was Aunt Jane 's legacy and the money Mike had pressed on her as an early wedding present … |
| 5 | Not only were their needs felt to threaten the living standards of other groups , but it was argued that these needs should be given less priority : ‘ It is dangerous to be in any way lavish to old age , until adequate provision . |
| 6 | The tsar had good reason to listen to the advice of his financial experts , for not only were his finances in a desperate state but also he could not easily borrow on western markets so long as the empire 's accounting procedures remained inadequate . |
| 7 | Not only were his friends so much older than herself , but they seemed aware of Prince Charles 's strategy towards her . |
| 8 | Not only were his carts and equipment a great encumbrance , but Gould was limited in the amount of ground he could cover by a scarcity of supplies . |
| 9 | Not only were there flagstones underfoot but they were also used to line the hillside , to prevent minor earth slips covering the path . |
| 10 | so I got four more , had a look round thought I saw it , but Traygo was heaving I tried to park by the erm garden centre , but to not only were there people all parked there , there was a great articulated lorry delivering stuff , so you went in and you could n't even then get out , go and park further up |
| 11 | Both their lorries were green , and so were their lead reins , anti-sweat sheets , buckets and bandages , and there were green braids on their splendid horses ' tails , which were left down until the last moment to protect them from the flies . |
| 12 | He loved what the humanists did in reviving the Ancients , and hated the ferocity of their adversarial style : ‘ If their manners were often like those of giants , so were their labours ’ . |
| 13 | So were her feelings . |
| 14 | Her face was always clean , and so were her hands , teeth and fingernails . |
| 15 | Her purse , containing a few thousand lire , was still there ; so were her traveller 's cheques and credit cards . |
| 16 | So were they foreigners ? |
| 17 | Off the pair of us dashed and so were our hopes as of course nothing had been left uncollected . |
| 18 | Our distributors were worried ; so were our publishers . |
| 19 | His wrists up to his elbows were closely covered with coral bangles , so were his ankles … his breast was completely hidden from view by the coral beads encircling his neck . |
| 20 | His artlessness was boyish and so were his acuteness and his transparent but somewhat belated good sense . |
| 21 | No longer were our proposals for long term projects just reports on pieces of paper ; they were real — and not just for us , but for the children of Vietnam . |
| 22 | But the best were his rose bushes , a type you do n't often see now . |
| 23 | When he died , the only parts of his body he gave away were his corneas . ’ |
| 24 | And what exactly were our works ? |
| 25 | But both were themselves poets , and by that token were concerned more urgently than other commentators , even Edmund Wilson . |
| 26 | The Denhams ' garden seemed to have no walls , so thoroughly were its boundaries screened and disguised . |
| 27 | If I really were his mother , I 'd hate to see them there . |
| 28 | Among friends I met here were our hosts $insert names$ who told me that her husband was making a steady recovery from his recent illness . |
| 29 | Here were my kind of cricketers . |
| 30 | Only after the mysterious mass extinction of the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago were our ancestors able to emerge into the daylight in any substantial numbers . |