Example sentences of "were [adj] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thrones they sat on were fluted and heavily decorated with clusters of mother-of-pearl along the back and arms . |
| 2 | The police , he said , were terrific and quickly found that some non-paying spectators were being smuggled in courtesy buses from the hotels and , in a few cases , hidden in car boots ! |
| 3 | If this means attributing to Athens an uncharacteristic desire for land empire , we should not hesitate to do so — Thucydides ( i. 111 ) after all records an expedition to Thessaly as well ; and if any individual was responsible it was surely Pericles , whom Aristotle ( Rhetoric 1407 ) quotes as saying that the Boiotians tended to ‘ cut each other down ’ — that is , they were weak because internally divided . |
| 4 | I wanted things that were solid and well made , and of course safe ; that was more important to me than appearance . |
| 5 | They were sharp-faced and casually clad . |
| 6 | Police believe the women were raped before their bodies were mutilated and then thrown into the sea.Mike Dolan reports |
| 7 | Second , the pace of technological development meant that the advantages to companies from new products or improvements were short-lived and soon overtaken by others . |
| 8 | The hind limbs were strong and apparently adapted for scratch-digging , and Hyperodapedon could presumably dig up edible tubers and roots . |
| 9 | If I may say so very well councillor and you were specific and indeed backed up the particular figures , even though of course one is entitled to the that I thought it was fair and well argued . |
| 10 | In most cases these wives were literate and well informed , but they would smile politely and agree with their husbands . |
| 11 | In our survey of the financial arrangements of NEP as they applied to the Smolensk guberniia , it was noted how they were unstable and poorly defined from the outset , leading to economic and social tensions at the lower levels . |
| 12 | Although lack of staff was mentioned often , lack of direct funding was mentioned much less so : in fact more libraries actually said that resources were adequate than specifically noted otherwise : |
| 13 | Therefore in the USA the methods of collective bargaining associated with the heyday of competitive capitalism were outmoded and eventually destroyed along with the breaking by employers of union control of the labour process . |
| 14 | Their borders were meaningless and arbitrarily drawn . |
| 15 | If our society were pure and well regulated , yes , they would be seducers ; but now , in my opinion , one may often consider them sisters of charity . ’ |
| 16 | Acheson 's ideas on Indo-China and South-East Asia , says Gaddis Smith , were vague and sometimes shifted depending on the person to whom he was talking . |
| 17 | On purgatory and prayers for the dead , the Articles were also ambivalent , since they admitted that : ‘ it is a very good and a charitable deed to pray for souls departed ’ , but made no claim that such prayers were efficacious and even questioned whether purgatory existed at all . |
| 18 | Despite the fact that regular maintenance was a statutory requirement and despite some successful legal actions to enforce the statutory provisions , regular dredging and attention to leaks were perfunctory or never carried out at all by canal companies owned by the railways . |
| 19 | Both were well-attended and efficiently staged . |
| 20 | They were naive and easily misled by western ideas , especially since the ‘ open door ’ policy had allowed foreign ideas to enter China . |
| 21 | Fourth , the two researchers were white and so handicapped in their assessment of black families and children . |
| 22 | These changes were complex and often confused . |
| 23 | All these solutions were current and much discussed . |
| 24 | Her tenants were poor but carefully selected in accordance with their apparent potential for self-improvement . |
| 25 | Roman bridges were well and simply designed and solidly constructed . |
| 26 | The grounds were beautiful and well kept . |
| 27 | 7/The backgrounds were imaginary and deliberately painted in loose wash and kept soft to allow text to be overlaid . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , seasons were short and widely spaced , the dancers were limited in ability , and in John 's rather impatient view there were no real designers except for Hanns : ‘ I 'm sick of working with would-be 's ’ , he wrote . |
| 29 | His stands alienated the richer members so that his ministries were short and ill paid . |
| 30 | The half-dozen or so houses were neat and well cared for , yet there was no sign of life at all , not even the yapping of a dog or the cluck of a hen , just the wind stirring the flowers at the road end . |