Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [noun] were " in BNC.

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1 They were not , they were not dispensed with , well one could look back in seventy eight and say retrospectively how that process could have been started considerably earlier , er the honourable gentleman knows perfectly well that er as the Maastricht bill was winding its way through here it was n't really practical to run this but indeed the processes were started before the governing legislation was on the statute book and I quite understand why honourable gentlemen opposite wish to make their party points , particularly those particularly those who were not in the house in seventy eight which er does n't I think apply to the honourable gentleman from from Birmingham , when he knows perfectly well that the same kind of machinery is used now was used then and it was used as fairly and as honestly and as completely impartially as the time allowed .
2 I felt terrible and wanted some but only the Corporals were allowed it .
3 Over 50 people were killed in unrest across the country in the period Aug. 2-4 , although police said that it was not clear whether all the deaths were related to the strike .
4 In the morning , she rose early and already the fires were lit and breakfast cooking on the range .
5 Few men dared whistle or swear in the workings , for the little people would not tolerate that and indeed the men were expected to behave themselves sensibly .
6 I like to compare him with a footballing genius , putting through passes others are too slow to take , and making moves that would be brilliant if only the rules were different .
7 The fact that this extra testing can produce extra diagnoses implies that a proportion of those cases diagnosed as NGU would turn out to be trichomonal if only the organism were adequately looked for .
8 Indeed , in the first series of patients only 72% were bleeding from varices , haemostatic treatment was not uniform and only a minority were treated with sclerotherapy .
9 The marshes of Essex , he said , were so right-wing that even the newsagents were white .
10 Originally the horns were lyre-shaped and traditionally the animals were horn-tethered .
11 The fire which had started early that morning must have been very fierce as only the walls were left standing and from the ruins there was that horrible fire-damp smell which pervades the site for weeks after such an occurrence .
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