Example sentences of "were [adj] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyhow I thought the team had a pretty good crimble period , despite the number of draws which were due mainly to bad luck and some inept finishing . |
| 2 | The outbreak of war found the Army wearing uniforms which had evolved during the Indian Wars , and which were unsuitable both for tropical campaigning , and for the dawning age of modern warfare . |
| 3 | Mr Vincent said that Medway Ports were interested only in new freight customers , now using English ports , for Rosyth . |
| 4 | Sometimes she wished a burglar would come and take them away , but the burglars were interested only in electrical equipment , credit cards and cash . |
| 5 | The French , for their part , were interested only in American help to achieve some honourable compromise in Indo-China , whereas the militants in Washington were looking for combined military action to inflict a decisive defeat on the communists . |
| 6 | Perhaps just one more éclair — God , they were minute enough in all conscience . |
| 7 | After 1574 there was little money to be had from Antwerp in any case , and Elizabeth had to rely upon domestic resources , which were adequate only for private borrowing . |
| 8 | Privately , he hoped the clergy were unfamiliar enough with this sort of thing not to ask too many questions about the incompetence of all concerned . |
| 9 | The idea that mind and body were separate yet in some sense connected has dominated European thought . |
| 10 | The vote represented an achievement for Engholm 's new leadership , since many rank and file members were suspicious even of this level of German military activity internationally . |
| 11 | The bunch were 3.30 behind at this stage but the gaps widened hugely over the final miles , the chasers finishing over three minutes back and the third group , led in by Norman Campbell , over 13 minutes down . |
| 12 | They were sure only of one thing : that somehow his life explained his stand for an independent Scotland . |
| 13 | And of course that was the best way to treat me because we were all there for one reason and that was to get over our addiction and to cure ourselves and be better . |
| 14 | The neon quality vanished and they were all together as one flesh with three faces . |
| 15 | Elected assemblies were uncommon enough in English life to encourage the Virginia assembly to treat the House of Commons as the natural parallel to its own position and to look to Commons precedents as a guide to its rights and duties . |
| 16 | Originally , loans that carried interest were illegal virtually throughout Western society . |
| 17 | It should not be thought that Labour Ministers were concerned only with domestic policy , although Morrison was Home Secretary , Bevin was Minister of Labour , and Dalton ( from early 1942 ) President of the Board of Trade . |
| 18 | All Bullen 's writing and lectures derived from his sea experience , keen observation , and a good memory , and were concerned mainly with marine science and sea life . |
| 19 | Inevitably , the two species interbred , and now , in the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago and on New Guinea there is a new kind of wild pig that is the descendant of two species that were not only domesticated , but were domesticated independently of each other . |
| 20 | When Hannah was a child , running water meant the stream in the field and such things as electricity , the internal combustion engine and even the wireless were available only on another planet or so it must have seemed to the average resident of this remote and lovely but intensely deprived valley . |
| 21 | By half-time , though , the Ernst and Young North Premier League champions were 2–1 ahead with short corner goals from Peter Skates and Carl Bennett . |
| 22 | In theory , if we were skilled enough at genetic engineering , we could move from any point in animal space to any other point . |
| 23 | His eyes were bright now with suppressed passion and pain . |
| 24 | His later years were devoted largely to charitable work , to which he contributed much in an unostentatious manner . |
| 25 | Mr. and Mrs. Harvey , the master and matron , were both away on sick leave in the early months of 1900 , and the Board received a letter from their general practitioner , Mr. C. G.Johnson , to say that they were making good progress and that he recommended continuing the champagne which had contributed to their recovery . |