Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Physical and experimental considerations implied that and so the following values for were established : The results so obtained were in good agreement with predictions from fibre reinforcement theory ( Equations ( 4.21 ) or ( 4.22 ) ) provided that a value of 0.37 for Poisson 's ratio for the butadiene phase was used rather than the more usual figure , for a rubber , of 0.5 . |
| 2 | The recommendations finally made were of a highly practical nature , but they established a tradition of careful selection which was easily glamorized in both the public and the official mind . |
| 3 | ‘ But if all the Rime Giants ever spawned were after me I would still sit here , for I need some hot food in me to fight the ice in my bones . ’ |
| 4 | The worst times I 've ever endured were with a tax-dodger in Castletown . |
| 5 | ‘ The best times I 've ever had were with my kids . |
| 6 | The first complaints to be formally filed were by British Columbia , Canadian raspberry producers and an Ontario paving company on April 6 , 1989 . |
| 7 | In his first schoolboy poetry the theme had been of love withered and decayed — practically the last lines he ever wrote were of " the certainty of love unchanging " . |
| 8 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 9 | Because both ends of the Thornton Heath route on which they now worked were in congested streets , two trolley poles were fitted , one for each direction of travel . |
| 10 | They were still interested in patterns rather than processes , although the patterns they were now discussing were of a kind that Darwin would be able to explain . |
| 11 | Both those ideas now said were in our future targets . |
| 12 | However , throughout 1943–87 men who had never married were at increased risk of anal cancer compared with colon or stomach cancer , Previous studies have reported an association between men who had never married and anal cancer and argued that these findings reflected an association with male homosexuality . |