Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were presumably responsible for supervising the civil settlement outside the fort and , in particular , the Sarmatian veterans who had been granted land in its vicinity . |
| 2 | Those who had preferred that solution were uniformly content with it ; though they sometimes expressed feelings of guilt or voiced complaints about the particular institution . |
| 3 | Until the late 1970s these organisms were uniformly sensitive to therapeutically useful antibiotics . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr. Ross goes lieutenant into one of them if he can pass his examination on the morrow ’ , Keith informed his sister , and it would seem that the examining board were duly impressed by their admiral 's anxiety , for they took a chance on this doubtful candidate . |
| 5 | Then we make a tour of the commune — we visited a secondary school ( altho the children were away , it being Sunday ) and were duly impressed by what had been achieved , esp . |
| 6 | Living in the northern cities , they had a deep commitment to the radical wing of the Liberal Party and were overwhelmingly nonconformist in religion . |
| 7 | ‘ We put the contract out to tender and were overwhelmingly impressed by Bookpoint , ’ Mr Webb said . |
| 8 | There were 200 seats with a substantial middle-class element , and these were overwhelmingly Unionist at each election between the wars . |
| 9 | virtually all the early canals and probably a majority of the later ones , were overwhelmingly local in both promotion and finance … |
| 10 | Its practitioners were overwhelmingly concerned with rulers , battles , treaties , political events or politico-legal institutions , in a word with retrospective politics , if not actually with current politics in historical fancy-dress . |
| 11 | But I were right disappointed at that thousand pounds worth of holiday accommodation ! |
| 12 | They were right rotten to him ! |
| 13 | So I says to Maggie , we 'll phone insurance , I put her on t' phone , and she said he were , he were right clever with her ! |
| 14 | They were feeding young , but were rather shy about having their photograph taken . |
| 15 | Patients were rather specific in their reporting of symptoms as they complained of heartburn or acid regurgitation only when the intraoesophageal pH was less than four . |
| 16 | Our exceptional items were rather heavier in nineteen ninety one , you wo n't be surprised after what you heard from Frank about the er , number reductions . |
| 17 | Opinions were rather divided over the effectiveness of other strategies and sanctions such as setting extra work or detention . |
| 18 | Wickham thought that a weak defence and said : ‘ The Linleys were rather disturbed by the incident … ’ |
| 19 | When George met the York coach at the King 's Head in Kirkbymoorside , relations were rather strained at first . |
| 20 | After several days of this we were rather bored with the whole thing until one afternoon a yacht came in under sail and anchored near us . |
| 21 | In their study of newly-wed couples , Mansfield and Collard found that most expected to be able to apply the contemporary idea that marriage should involve close psychological intimacy to their own circumstances , and many of the women especially were rather disappointed as a result . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most important single explanation was that Polish political values and practices were rather closer to those of Western Europe than to those of the more authoritarian East . |
| 23 | The dishes he filled seemed indistinguishable to my eye from run-of-the-mill cottage pie except they were rather blacker round the edges than is normal , and they were accompanied by the garnish of a quarter of a raw tomato , two cucumber slices , a sprinkling of cress ( or maybe lawn clippings ) , and a tired , pre-chewed lettuce leaf without which no British pub meal is complete these days . |
| 24 | In those days the Fellows of Corpus were rather proud of the briskness of their conversation . |
| 25 | The babies ’ parents were rather dubious about it all at first , ’ Claire admits . |
| 26 | They were rather pleased with themselves for saying this , because it was something the Gruagach would find quite flattering and , also , it had not referred to the Wolfkings , which would have been extremely discourteous , not to say disastrous . |
| 27 | ‘ You were rather mean by the way to tell everyone I spoke to — or was about to speak to — not to talk any more to Scotland Yard . |
| 28 | Now that the were rather dark for it , so we would n't be able |
| 29 | Among the more doctrinally united Baptists some conservatives were rather defensive by the end of the century and accepted the need for a middle course between ‘ exaggerated and ill-directed individualism ’ on the one hand and ‘ exaggerated and ill-directed socialism , on the other . |
| 30 | Social class patterns of ‘ ideal ’ family size were rather uniform in the 1960s ( Woolf 1971 ) . |