Example sentences of "were [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , if there were times those qualities seemed exaggerated , she understood . |
| 2 | They were for all ages , from the very young to the schoolroom young lady ; some might even be classed as adult fiction , though they were never again to be published as such . |
| 3 | In London as a whole the grammar schools ( twenty-one of which were directly maintained by the London County Council ) were for many years to admit 17–20 per cent of each age group , and the movement towards comprehensive schools was painfully slow . |
| 4 | It also coincided with the rise and consolidation of the labour movement in Britain ; and that is a story from which women were for many years absent or in which they featured very much as a minority . |
| 5 | The JS clerks of works were for many years mainly responsible for quality control of building and engineering , which is a role normally undertaken by the architect on construction projects . |
| 6 | Indeed , as mentioned above , the railways were for some years under the direct control of the sponsor ministry ( at that time the ministry of public works ) . |
| 7 | Diplomats and diplomatic representation , it could be argued , were for these states a doubtfully necessary luxury and perhaps even a dangerous one . |
| 8 | In previous centuries needs were recognized reluctantly , if at all , when social problems were of such proportions they could no longer be ignored . |
| 9 | The girls in the barrio chino of Spanish cities were of all ages , sizes and nationalities . |
| 10 | They both looked thoughtful , heads side by side at the open oven door , while I wondered what the chances were of both heads fitting — and jamming — inside and the door safety-catch somehow short-circuiting . |
| 11 | Matthew stumbled a bit on this question , trying to remember what the prevailing feminist attitudes were towards such things as parenting and families . |
| 12 | Key defender Paul McGrath , set to win his 61st cap , said : ‘ I did n't even know that we were near these records . |
| 13 | The Dicks were amongst many others who have been recognised for their contribution . |
| 14 | But as we said earlier that some of us who have been in the truth for a long time we were like that years ago , but somewhere along the line we 've become drowsy and a little sort of halfhearted and maybe dozing a little bit as we go down that sort of motorway er of spirituality and that , that the longer you go it can become more difficult because other things come along do n't they ? |
| 15 | We were like those skeletons still embracing in the dust of their vanished flesh and dead desires . |
| 16 | Those robots : they were like some suits used by traitor legionnaires corrupted by Chaos . |
| 17 | Gieves , a business that dates back to 1785 , were above all tailors to the officers of HM Navy , many of whom , the management appreciated , could not afford to buy a good quality uniform , which they had to provide themselves , and pay for it in cash . |
| 18 | I liked that idea : it seemed aristocratic to me , just walking out empty-handed as if we were above all objects . |
| 19 | He were under these covers and erm |
| 20 | In Britain , although no one except Beaverbrook Newspapers were under any illusions that war was imminent , there was still surprise among German and Italian nationals by then resident in Britain that Conservative ministers ( led by Sir John Anderson , Home Secretary ) interned all aliens without distinction of friend , refugee and enemy , shamelessly abetted by the press of the Fascist-sympathiser , Rothermere . |
| 21 | Already , in that year , there were 1,145 comprehensive schools , and 32 per cent of all secondary pupils were in such schools . |
| 22 | The verderers were intended to act as a check upon the paid Forest officers in the interests of the Crown , but the numerous instances already cited of peculation and extortion on the part of the latter seem to indicate that the verderers were in many instances overawed by the authority and influence of the wardens and foresters of fee . |
| 23 | For instance , instead of sending work to the paint shop to be painted , the painters were in many cases permanently located at points where work was sufficiently finished . |
| 24 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 25 | Referring their readers to the HMI 's survey of teachers in their first year in the profession , they repeat the survey 's ‘ finding ’ that ‘ the personal qualities of the teachers were in many cases the decisive factor in their effectiveness ’ . |
| 26 | THE Einstein Observatory survey of cosmic X-ray sources a decade ago showed that coronae were common among diverse types of star , and were in many cases more energetic than the Sun 's corona . |
| 27 | At the same time as the evaluation of housing tenure was strengthening one base of working class Tory support , however , certain other bases were being eroded , for instance paternalistic relations within industrial enterprises were in many cases being undermined by the growth of industrial concentration and rise of large multidivisional enterprises , and the development of trade unionism within these . |
| 28 | In this regard , it is relevant that the ‘ places ’ created by the expansion of non-manual/salaried employment were in many cases filled by the sons of manual wage workers , providing them with an avenue for social advancement , rather than , say , by more rapid breeding on the part of previously privileged strata . |
| 29 | They were in many cases cheered on by local bystanders . |
| 30 | Network members were in many cases members of one or several scientific societies , each of which held regular lecture meetings , and more informal discussions . |