Example sentences of "[coord] were [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voluntary schools continued to charge higher fees and were socially and intellectually selective in their intake . |
| 2 | Plenty failed and were quietly or noisily dropped . |
| 3 | The newspapers described what went on , particularly the annual Presidential Addresses , which generally called for more scientific education , and were fully and widely reported . |
| 4 | But I need n't have worried ; they were trivial things and were efficiently and painlessly dealt with by RAF dentists very different from The Butcher . |
| 5 | As the industrial sector grew , especially with the rapid post-1918 development of heavy industry , the concentration of industry in urban areas meant that members of the rural population could no longer maintain even a pretence of living off the land , and were more and more drawn away to the expanding cities . |