Example sentences of "were [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish there were because then my life would be a lot easier . |
| 2 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 3 | Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims . |
| 4 | Equally they were as well placed as anyone to know about the extent of the delays by the emergency services . |
| 5 | Above all , local educational standards were as yet not up to the demands put upon them by ‘ the Centre ’ . |
| 6 | It had all the facilities needed by the three Services and there were as yet few worries about security of tenure . |
| 7 | For example , in March 1955 at the time of Ashby 's Will Harvey Lecture , there were only five tutor-organisers employed by the Eastern District , those in Essex , Fenland , Norfolk , Northamptonshire and Suffolk : the posts in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire were vacant and there were as yet no tutor-organisers with special responsibilities over several counties . |
| 8 | The French kings were as yet too weak to use the arrière-ban , if they had wished to , save in quite exceptional circumstances , as in 1124 . |
| 9 | In general , it illustrates the amateurish state of government at this time : there were as yet no doctors of Canon Law , no schools in which the subject was studied , no lectures , no centres of expert knowledge . |
| 10 | This technique was compatible with a more open-ended view of natural relationships , although most naturalists were as yet unwilling to concede that life could have developed solely in response to adaptive pressures . |
| 11 | A small number of late-nineteenth-century thinkers did begin to warn against the dangers of pollution and environmental exhaustion , but they were as yet in a minority . |
| 12 | Huy saw that to play along was the only way to get more information , and Surere had mentioned the protection of innocence as the mainstay of his creed often enough now for the scribe to make connections , though they were as yet half-formed , and his heart was inclined , at their birth , to reject them as falling too pat . |
| 13 | Others wrote about what Walter Machin 's books had meant to them at the time of their publication , and to these Viola wrote faintly magisterial replies of thanks and interest which usually also contained subtle plugs for the two books which were as yet unpublished . |
| 14 | Of the members of parliament formerly in the PUWP , about 30 reportedly joined the SDPR , while 27 backed the SDU and more than 100 were as yet uncommitted . |
| 15 | No typewriters were as yet in use , and the young recruits were taught the " diplomatic " style of handwriting , designed for maximum legibility . |
| 16 | Relatively few country people were as yet literate , outside parts of western and central Europe ( notably the protestant parts ) and North America . |
| 17 | Few of their inhabitants were as yet beyond walking distance from fields . |
| 18 | Phage buffer , complete LB medium , M9 medium , L-amino acids , vitamin supplements were as previously described [ 3 ] . |
| 19 | Transcription conditions employed were as previously described ( 12 ) . |
| 20 | The techniques of DNA and RNA isolation , Southern and Northern blotting , and cDNA cloning were as previously described ( 24 ) . |
| 21 | Even where the coast does not face directly towards the incoming waves refraction causes the waves to swing round and approach the shore less obliquely than they were when further out to sea ( Fig. 8.8 ) . |