Example sentences of "were [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I am concerned , four-day cricket is worth a go , and the committee were right to endorse it as a means to aid the development of future England cricketers . |
| 2 | Few of us have the time , training , or expertise to do this job properly , even if it were possible to do it for a population as small as 10 000 people — which it is not . |
| 3 | Can I come with you ? ’ by people who were keen to see what happened and who were prepared to treat it as a spectator sport . |
| 4 | But do you agree that we should put diplomatic pressure that George Bush should , the Europeans should , Douglas Hurd should , and say look guys whatever you do , if it , though were prepared to recognise you as an independent state , do n't take it out on the Russians ? |
| 5 | It 's a measure of the esteem in which Altman is held that many of the close to 70 stars who appear were willing to commit themselves to a project which so ruthlessly satirizes their very existence . |
| 6 | Nothing could be worse than the life I was leading at present , I thought , where the pressures from being homeless and unemployed were likely to force me into a series of criminal acts which would result in prison , or vagrancy at the least . |
| 7 | The following details of courses were sent to us recently but we were unable to include them in an earlier issue . |
| 8 | This is due largely to the fact that doctors were able to organize themselves into a professional group before the state intervened in medicine and became a major employer of medical practitioners . |
| 9 | Although the language was a bit complicated you were able to understand it after a while through the actors way of raising and lowering their voices . |
| 10 | The day-to-day operation of power stations remained under the control of the six National Grid Control Centres , which ( now they were freed from the financial provisions which had governed their relationship to the independent undertakings ) were able to run them in a more efficient merit order , reducing the cost of generation . |
| 11 | in the studies described earlier , those who were most proficient in BSL were those learning it as a first language ( albeit with English as another first language ) . |
| 12 | The Jones boys were busy preparing themselves for a whistle-stop tour of Texas , fuelled by the news from their American promoters that they 'd be playing Dallas and Houston the same nights as GENESIS , and that they were out-selling PHIL ‘ Two Houses ’ COLLINS and his Tory mates by three tickets to one . |
| 13 | The CDU and SPD had seemed close enough since 1960 on domestic and international issues to work together and the CDU were keen to rebuild themselves after a troubled period since 1961 . |
| 14 | At the other end the teachers were ready to hoist it onto a trolley for transportation to the basket lift . |