Example sentences of "were [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , one wonders sometimes whether the apparent simplicity of such political remedies has , in some peculiar way , affected the diagnosis of the supposed ‘ sickness ’ in the first place ( undesirable qualities , low levels of skill , weak subject expertise ) to which those remedies were presumably a response ; whether the remedies have produced the sickness , rather than vice versa . |
| 2 | Commius was forced to flee to Britain and he established himself as King of the British Atrebates which were presumably an earlier migrant group of the Gallic tribe of the same name . |
| 3 | The courtyard was surrounded by what were presumably the inner walls of the palace . |
| 4 | In each village and manor local men filled such offices as bailiff , and the holders of these positions were presumably the more articulate members of the community — inglorious the peasants may have been , but there is no need to regard this as synonymous with mute . |
| 5 | you were right the first time . |
| 6 | ‘ No … you were right the first time : what happened between us was a dreadful mistake … unplanned . |
| 7 | They were right the eel tipped the scales at 2lb 2oz for best of the day ! |
| 8 | No , you were right the first time boy ! |
| 9 | ‘ But there were rather a lot of people about at the moorings this morning . |
| 10 | Leviticus was happy with the country , thought here were rather a lot of blacks around . |
| 11 | ‘ The shops were rather a home from home , not the most efficient of places , ’ says Major Bourne-Arton . |
| 12 | Those All Blacks went on to win every one of 30 tour games , including Tests against Ireland , Wales , England and France , and were arguably the finest ever to visit these shores . |
| 13 | The later Victorian undertakers were arguably the most backward-looking tradesmen of their day . |
| 14 | Franco 's concern with internal equilibrium was also reflected in the occupants of what were arguably the two most important cabinet posts . |
| 15 | It was London where the railway suburbs were numerically the largest and most populous with regular commuters . |
| 16 | The shoes , though , were altogether a different matter . |
| 17 | Its inhabitants were predominantly the members of the Issaq clan , and the SNM had been formed there in May 1988 . |
| 18 | The problems … had grown tremendously in scale ; but they were fundamentally the same . |
| 19 | Burns , he said , were rarely the cause of death , though the resulting shock-induced pneumonia was . |
| 20 | Statesmen were rarely the tools of business in this period ; sometimes they made businessmen do their work for them and they were alive to the possibility of political influence being spread through such economic channels as chartered companies . |
| 21 | Mostly , they saw what they expected — and because the trash with whom Charlie had his dealings were rarely the deepest or most sober of men , their expectations tended to be predictable and few . |
| 22 | The Lincolns played an integral part in the overall harassment of the communist offensive campaign and were effectively the only permanent heavy bomber unit in Malaya . |
| 23 | Despite the higher standard of living they were offering most of their inhabitants , they were economically a little too isolated to attract much attention . |
| 24 | After the cattle , the sheep were economically the most important , followed by the pigs , hens and geese . |
| 25 | The detached , amused part of Phoebe sometimes thought that her main feeling at these parties was a wish that she , and everyone else too , would dare to improve the quality of the wine , but they were all too self-consciously afraid of being mistaken for Yuppies , despite the fact they were mostly a little too old and slightly too poor . |
| 26 | The art students were mostly a bunch of individualistic , head-in-the-sand poseurs . |
| 27 | They were mostly a little lonely and disorientated , enjoying none of the ( few ) advantages of the ordinary boarding-school , and too few in number to feel any sense of corporate identity . |
| 28 | Well they were mostly the Clydesdale but oh there were some light horses in it too . |
| 29 | It could be a useful raw material if there were locally a need for mild alkali in this form . |
| 30 | The Council issued a statement on 13 September , correcting some points in the press reports , emphasizing that the visiting party had indicated that it believed the Polytechnic had ‘ the potential to rectify the grave situation in which it finds itself , and stressing that the visiting party had not suggested that courses as currently taught were below an acceptable standard . |