Example sentences of "were is " in BNC.
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| 1 | To go on acting as though there were is to add to the layers of falsehood which already cover our ( so-called ) civilization . |
| 2 | Flanking him as it were is the wife of another familiar figure and quintet member , Virginsky . |
| 3 | His appeal to logic is mistaken : you were is both singular and plural in Standard English . |
| 4 | What those buildings actually were is still doubtful . |
| 5 | He says , philosophically , that ‘ those engines were prone to signing off even when they were is service ’ , but somehow this was all a bit personal . |
| 6 | That Pericles ' maternal relatives , the noble family of the Alkmaionidai , were enemies of Themistokles ( as they certainly were is no objection to this view : Pericles ' father had already distanced himself from the Alkmaionidai by the time of his ostracism in 484 ( Ath . |
| 7 | Something was being born inside them , as if the past and future were coupling to breed a new kind of man , and it seemed to them that the wind was whispering a phrase they had often heard from Bakayoko : ‘ The kind of man we were is dead , and our only hope for a new life lies in the machine , which knows neither language nor a race . ’ … |
| 8 | ‘ Imagine our universe is a huge cheese , and where we were is another cheese . |
| 9 | This is not to deny that there were unscrupulous landlords who were guilty of depopulation — the evidence that there were is clear . |
| 10 | Some perspective on just how limited the reforms laid down in the Declaration of Rights were is provided by comparing them with the proposals for reform which had been made by opponents of the government since Charles II 's reign . |
| 11 | The child we were is still inside us , crying |
| 12 | Yeah I know they were is that what they were for ? |
| 13 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |