Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] were [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such a situation of role confusion and role strains a person at the end of the line is not disposed to react to new policy initiatives from above as if he or she were a mere functionary . |
| 2 | Summarising prospects for a US-Soviet summit , Baker said : " I think we are right where we were the last time . " |
| 3 | ‘ But I loved you for your art-because you were a wonderful actress , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Two , the could proceed without the landlord 's licence , it would then be up to the landlord to apply to the court to have the lease forfeited when you could arrange the defence that you were a reasonable tenant and as such the assignment should have been allowed to permit this course of action but of course you are using bank money as well as your own and the bank would be unhappy to lend money in a situation where there was a possibility , albeit a slight , that the lease would be forfeited . |
| 5 | While I am sure that there may indeed be any number of genuine psychics and astrologers who can do precisely what they claim in this field , what is to prevent charlatans telling you that you were a Roman gladiator , a druid or even Napoleon ? |
| 6 | ‘ I should have recognised that you were a stronger character than that , and accepted your delight in the presents my father gave you for what it was — sheer , innocent pleasure . ’ |
| 7 | Judge Rivlin , sentencing Darby , said : ‘ I have no doubt that you were a leading light in the organisation of the first party and that you were the leading light in the second and third parties . ’ |
| 8 | And I heard him read from your notes that you were an only child , with no brothers or sisters . |
| 9 | Or could it be that you were the first rebel in the household and that Suzie 's only following your example ? ’ |
| 10 | So when , when you were working at Squires the fact that you were the first woman ? |
| 11 | You might very well say that you were the greatest law lecturer in the world , because people tend to say these things about themselves . |
| 12 | ‘ When I first saw you , ’ he murmured into her ear , ‘ I made the mistake of thinking that you were the eternal butterfly . |
| 13 | It would be unlikely that you would say that you were the worst law lecturer in the world unless you were . |
| 14 | Judge Rivlin , sentencing Darby , said : ‘ I have no doubt that you were a leading light in the organisation of the first party and that you were the leading light in the second and third parties . ’ |
| 15 | And it was true , over the long term you were finished if the malais took it into their heads that you were the wrong kind of Danuese . |
| 16 | ‘ It seems likely that you were the last person to see Glynn alive , apart from his murderer , but at the moment I am more interested in what you can tell me about him — the sort of man he was — and about his friends and his enemies as far as you can . |
| 17 | Although we were the biggest employer in Britain , we had no serious employee-involvement policies . |
| 18 | That was one of the reasons why , when we set up Headline , I called myself sales and publicity director , as opposed to marketing director , because I wanted to make it perfectly clear that we were a combined department . |
| 19 | And I griped to her about a certain person at work , I lamented the fact that we were a second-rate company when we could be a first-rate company , the usual junk . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's Captain America 's big birthday in 1992 , 50 years or something , so we were the last thing Marvel wanted around . |
| 21 | Once we were the desired distance away we had to stand perfectly still , reach slowly into our pockets for the food , turn side-on to the bird , look back at it over our shoulders and wiggle the meat . |
| 22 | Although they were the same age , they thought the Russells Hall pupils would be much bigger than them . |
| 23 | Now , their own story-teller had shown that they were no mere bunch of tramps . |
| 24 | So be it but , remaining as I am of the view that they were a correct expression of the law , I repeat them as part of the ratio of my decision in this case . |
| 25 | ‘ All I can say about them is that they were a real joy , ’ Bill Pertwee remembers . |
| 26 | Many suspected that they were a dying race , slowly passing into extinction . |
| 27 | Articulate , easy to be with ; filled with ideas and knowledge ; nor could anyone say that they were a bad-looking lot , the young men got their sun-burn , the girls were pretty and well-turned out . |
| 28 | ‘ We recognized that they were a new club , that they had obtained a good holding in a Rugby area and that the club had bright prospects , but our case was clear — Leeds were defiant , and could be defiant through one cause — fear of the papers giving away certain secrets . ’ |
| 29 | Comparisons between the favonoid levels of Antarctic moss taken between 1964-1986 and ground based measurements of South Pole ozone levels revealed that they were a near mirror image of each other . |
| 30 | Cos someone said that they were a whole week and you just literally have the week but I ca n't |