Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were presumably with Martinez ’ agency when they signed up Brian Harley ? ’ |
| 2 | The defendants were presumably outside the class of people who were likely to have access to the information publicly . |
| 3 | In this regard it might be added that the permanent garrison included many soldiers who practised trades in the community when they were not on duty , and the smith and storeman were presumably in this category . |
| 4 | The dagger-shaped trefoils in the parabolic arches above were uniformly of blood hue . |
| 5 | In its evidence to an official inquiry five years ago , the Council said that the odds were overwhelmingly in favour of the banks rather than the customer . |
| 6 | The farmers , including the president of the National Farmers ' Union of Scotland , John Ross , and the union 's milk convener , Alex Brown , called on the Scottish Secretary to back Scotland 's milk producers , who were overwhelmingly in favour of the SMMB 's proposals , and help overturn the Office of Fair Trading 's findings that the plan would distort trade for milk . |
| 7 | Those attending the seminar were overwhelmingly from accountancy firms — excluding myself , 23 of the 26 participants . |
| 8 | The fact that ‘ official ’ criminals were overwhelmingly from the working class and were seen to be responding to the same forces that promoted socialist consciousness tended to favour at least a positive , if not heroic view of their activities . |
| 9 | But the country areas and particularly the West were overwhelmingly against the proposal . |
| 10 | Jury , audience and critics ( including me ) were overwhelmingly pro Vengerov , whether he was performing Bach , Beethoven or Paganini . |
| 11 | Now the tunnelers were right through and ’ there was placed under the Parliament house where the king should sit , some 30 barrels of gunpowder , with great store of wood , faggots and bars of iron . ’ |
| 12 | So because we 're doing something from our normal end of the spectrum as it were right through to trying to involve everybody in the city , erm we 're hoping to get the issue across to a lot more people , and also raise money while we 're doing it . |
| 13 | Although the SIMM sockets ( eight in all , four with 1Mb SIMMs fitted ) were right over the back of the board , against the power supply , access to them was n't too bad . |
| 14 | On the other hand when the Goigama made money payments in return for services or labour it was always to people who were right outside the system such as shopkeepers or Tamil labourers hired on a casual basis . |
| 15 | ‘ In view of the fact she was a young girl and the lacerations were right across the cheek I decided she needed plastic surgery . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ In view of the fact she was a young girl and the lacerations were right across the cheek I decided she needed plastic surgery . ’ |
| 17 | And yet they were right of course , they were right enough it , it never came again completely as it , noth nothing stay the same . |
| 18 | Teacher : If you were right at the top of the tower would the people down below you look like ? |
| 19 | Alan Clements , Trafalgar 's chairman , persistently repeated the company 's view that the accounts ‘ were right at the time they were published' , a view supported by David Jenkins , Touche 's partner in charge of the audit . |
| 20 | The they er even in the dining room you , you sort of , there were long tables , well when you came in as , as a student nurse you were right at the bottom of the table , and as you , you know , the second year , third year , fourth year , you gradually moved up and then the , the State Registered Nurses they all sat together . |
| 21 | They were right at the top when doorman Cecil barred their way . |
| 22 | We passed through the col , with the main peak of Koitobos towering up to our right , and then suddenly we were right on the edge of the rim with the giant bowl of the crater itself spread out below us . |
| 23 | We got a call saying we were right on the money last issue with the rumour that DEC will scrap up to 10,000 people on Monday December 7 , Pearl Harbor Day . |
| 24 | They were right on the bottom of the boat |
| 25 | to walk round the bread shelves twice and they were right on the bottom shelf when I eventually tracked them down and they had the hot cross buns on the shelves . |
| 26 | Pubs , clubs and sport were right down the fist . |
| 27 | It was n't we were right against the window , cold backs , I mean we were I was freezing ! |
| 28 | And that were right till the end of January . |
| 29 | And his parents back home in Fiji were right behind her decision . |
| 30 | Sailing along quite the thing and we were right down I du n no how far , if we were right in the middle of them or just on the edge of them , but we were not far from them . |