Example sentences of "were [adj] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was rough but people were used to that type of thing . |
| 2 | It was because the people were used to that kind of society with a secret police and er government inspectors and sending people out to Siberia and putting |
| 3 | They were used to that right from Year 1 , so it was a continuation of the previous work , as is the GCSE . |
| 4 | I it , it was , it was alright f for people wh who were used to that sort of thing but I mean they had n't all the mechanization in the mines then that they have now . |
| 5 | Women were used to such things , they could bear it more easily without giving way . |
| 6 | But the Vareyoc offered fresh coffee and slices of pizza and harmless empanadas , meat or cheese-filled pasties , which were friendly to all tummies . |
| 7 | ‘ Llandovery have great pace behind the scrum and Narberth were solid in all respects . |
| 8 | However , it also showed that only 10% of even our better companies were innovative in all areas of business . |
| 9 | Consequently world trade was encouraged since all currencies were exchangeable for each other and for gold at stable rates of exchange . |
| 10 | In her mind , she often saw herself striding towards it , through it , out into the sunshine beyond to be part of that bright , busy , civilized world where people like Simon smiled , listened , and were polite to each other . |
| 11 | The West Indians were alert to any erosion of their parliamentary position even at a time when the principle of maintaining slavery was virtually lost . |
| 12 | Telling him you were pregnant at that point in time was the height of selfishness , ’ he went on . |
| 13 | Er which were normal at that time . |
| 14 | She knew perfectly well that she and Ludo were right for each other . |
| 15 | All her previous doubts as to whether they were right for each other , whether she cared for him enough , had been answered by her reaction to Michele Lorenzo . |
| 16 | ‘ You were upset by that case . |
| 17 | The children were asleep in another room at the time , but the device hit a curtain and fell to the ground , where it exploded , blowing a hole in the floor . |
| 18 | This is true in the sense that Mesozoic sedimentary troughs and basins developed and were complete in these areas before the main opening of the North Atlantic . |
| 19 | The bogie cars were unsuitable for this arrangement and the small boxes were hung from the top edge of the dash either side . |
| 20 | But he mentioned in an essay the degree to which certain forms of anaemia were conducive to such creation ; and , in our conversation that day , he described how , when he was working on The Waste Land in Switzerland in 1921 ( ‘ by the waters of Leman ’ ) , he felt at one moment that his brain was going to burst . |
| 21 | Yearly tenancies held at rack rents ( i.e. rents that were not fixed by custom but which were negotiated by the landlord and tenant ) were common for the smaller farms and cottages and in the Midlands in particular they were usual for any property other than a freehold . |
| 22 | Negotiations were also under way with Switzerland for a relaxation of that country 's ban on the 40-tonne lorries which were usual in all EC member states except the UK and Ireland , and Austria was also being asked to upgrade rail and road transit routes , particularly over the Brenner Pass between Innsbruck and the Italian border . |
| 23 | It would be sad if our own seats of learning were behind-hand in this confusion . |
| 24 | But tensions between young and middle-aged adults were acute in many families . |
| 25 | County 's home form is one of the best in the country so Portsmouth were grateful for this deflection which disturbed Steve Cherry 's equilibrium . |
| 26 | Complaints about payment in kind or in truck were persistent in many parts of the country . |
| 27 | There were only three abundant harvests between 1793 and 1818 and fourteen which were deficient to some degree including some which were extraordinarily bad . |
| 28 | If the verderers ( or their heirs , if the verderers had died in the mean time ) failed to present their rolls to the judges on the first day of the Forest Eyre , or if their rolls were deficient in any material particular , they were liable to amercement . |
| 29 | The question of why islands were deficient in this way ( but not necessarily in the number of genera themselves ) would later be explained in terms of the limited opportunities for migration across ocean barriers . |
| 30 | Asked if he thought the fans were representative of all supporters , he said : ‘ Tottenham has a following of 29,000 people I only saw 25 . ’ |