Example sentences of "[adv] were [det] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now , not only were many of the Hurricanes tired and scarred , but the pilots themselves were tired . |
| 2 | Not only were many of his proposals radically altered by the Duma , but he encountered stiff opposition from the State Council and the Tsar himself gave him no more than lukewarm support . |
| 3 | ‘ So were many of the officers on the Western Front who you called ‘ sir ’ . ’ |
| 4 | But if every man here used his vote as he should and put a Labour government not only in the State of New South Wales but throughout the dominion , not only throughout the dominion but the Commonwealth , not only in the Commonwealth but throughout the world — ’ Bobby was enjoying himself now and so were most of his audience , standing under the afternoon sun. ’ — then the working man will have his true voice and he will make it heard in the corridors of power , for we will be the new power then — and we will use it for the greater good of all . |
| 5 | Their four sons , Abraham , John , Thomas and George , were prosperous nailer-farmers and so were those of their children who were middlemen in the trade . |
| 6 | The Dream was real , but so were some of the things the Berlin loudspeakers had said about it . |
| 7 | Miss Tuckey 's car was gone and so were some of her clothes and suitcases . |
| 8 | The Duke of Gloucester was there to mark the occasion … so were some of the planes … |
| 9 | On this basis , the worst ‘ performances ’ relative to ‘ expected ’ values were those of Strathclyde , Merseyside and West Glamorgan : the best were those of more rural areas , Powys ( Chapter 11 ) , Cambridgeshire , and Dumfries and Galloway . |
| 10 | more of them , not only the young people , of course not , but I mean more of them , I know there always were some of more than there was before it has changed every value , even moral values and everything like that , have changed a lot the last twenty to thirty years . |
| 11 | But the comments which most hit home were those of the young Lord Altrincham , in his English and National Review , a magazine of scarcely greater significance , but which had the good fortune to publish its August 1957 edition on a newsless Bank Holiday . |
| 12 | Such also were most of his friends : Sulien and Alfgar of Mercia , for example . |
| 13 | Here were some of the most renowned chevaliers in all Bretonnia . |
| 14 | The painters of the Brücke , who spiritually and intellectually were some of Gauguin 's truest heirs , saw primitive art as a healthy outcry against rationalism which paralleled their own ‘ Nietzschean affirmation of life ’ . |
| 15 | Where were most of these ? |
| 16 | Bibikov was no liberal , but neither were some of those who eventually made major contributions to the emancipation of 1861 . |
| 17 | Why were all of them so interested in why I was there ? |
| 18 | Considering techniques of smelting , fuel and raw materials , workers and their families , why were each of these recent decisions made ? |
| 19 | Why were some of the objects around them fake ? |
| 20 | Why were any of them here ? |
| 21 | Why were most of the tin mines in Cornwall closed earlier this century ? |
| 22 | Apart from the architecture the other arts which flourished so prodigiously were those of luxury objects : in the exhibition itself were jewel caskets , lustre ware , marble capitals , window screens , carpets , arms and armour and books . |
| 23 | So too were several of the other key portfolios handed out yesterday , 18 hours after ministers were first named . |