Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such questions occupied developmental research workers for a long while , and their results were eventually pulled together in a number of reviews , such as that by Bettye Caldwell . |
| 2 | ‘ They were apparently going away for a long weekend vacation . |
| 3 | THESE four happy boys were eagerly looking forward to a fun-filled family Christmas . |
| 4 | Some preferred to suffer occupation for longer , than to achieve freedom before local institutions were robust enough to ensure that they were not swept aside by a newly installed government of ‘ outsiders ’ . |
| 5 | There has also seemed to be a tendency among excavators either to cling rigidly to the date of a coin , or in the case of a pottery assemblage , to aim at an average date ; perhaps in some of the excavations of the thirties , the methods used were not refined enough for a director even to be sure that all the pottery came from a particular stratified layer , and if , therefore , a few sherds appeared which were out of dating context with the main assemblage , they could be put aside as ‘ intrusions ’ and ignored . |
| 6 | Their house was not searched at the time of the dawn raid ; they were not driven away to a police station for questioning . |
| 7 | The South Metropolitan tramways were not brought completely to a standstill and Sutton depôt kept cars on the road . |
| 8 | The reason why this rebellion was successful was in large measure due to the allegiance which the King was able to command from a people who were already bound together by a common language , system of law and form of government . |
| 9 | Indeed these immense powers were once criticised sharply in a pamphlet entitled ‘ The Permanent Coup d'Etat ’ by a young socialist deputé in the 1960s , François Mitterrand . |
| 10 | This book was the first natural history book known to have been published in Australia , where the engravings were also done probably by a transported forger . |
| 11 | It is , however , unlikely that the people fished ; the few fish remains archaeologists found at the site were probably washed ashore after a high tide . |
| 12 | But yesterday Teesside Crown Court was told that the pair were now living together as a family with their daughter . |
| 13 | They watched in silence until he came closer , then , as he swooped between the grey walls of the drawbridge and came clattering into the courtyard over cobblestones that were now covered only by a thin film of slush , Marc deliberately removed his arm from around her waist . |
| 14 | Her pups were now piled together in a cardboard box lined with an old woollen jumper and several sheets of brown paper . |
| 15 | The young couple were now secluded together for a week in a specially decorated apartment . |
| 16 | An identity of interest between rulers was set out here , even though those rulers were now bound together in a ‘ feudal ’ relationship whereby one was a liegeman of the other . |
| 17 | We arrived rather exhausted at Peking airport , but were immediately met enthusiastically by a rather formidable delegation of ministry of education officials , people from this or that Revolutionary committee , and members of the Peking Language Institute . |
| 18 | ‘ You probably were n't smacked enough as a child . |
| 19 | Alfred was nowhere to be seen , Emily and Heinrich were bickering over the mayonnaise , and James Pegg and Alice were silently working together on a salad . |
| 20 | Any patient characteristics which gave a p value of ≤0.1 or less were then used together in a multifactorial model in an analysis of variance with each index of oesophageal function being the dependent variable . |