Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BEFORE the Oakland Athletics began their American League Championship series against the Toronto Blue Jays it was said that the team had a crucial flaw : when their celebrated home-run hitters were not peppering the upper decks , the A 's supposedly found it tough to manufacture runs base by base with base hits , steals and sacrifice flies . |
| 2 | As these teachers realized they were not to get the major posts of responsibility , that their objective career progression had come to an end , that their own subject expertise was being compared unfavourably with that of their colleagues from former grammar schools , and that they were to be allocated the ‘ dirty work ’ of teaching the lower-ability groups in the lower streams — they formed a staff counterculture which set about resisting the initiatives of the head , and they withdrew that commitment and enthusiasm in the classroom that had previously been a major part of their secondary modern identity : |
| 3 | To these offences were soon added the brutal measures which the Bolsheviks took to cling to power , the barbarous excesses of the ‘ Red Terror ’ during the Civil War ( 1918–20 ) , the suppression of all rival parties , the curtailment of liberties as basic as freedom of speech and conscience . |
| 4 | Yet twenty-five miles to the south the French were already pushing the Prussian forces eastwards , away from the British . |
| 5 | January 29th , 1947 : Entrepreneurs were already investigating the extraordinary benefits of a prototype mobile-phone … |
| 6 | She laughed as she watched the dove soar above the chestnut trees , which were already showing the first flecks of green . |
| 7 | Now , the mechanical coal-cutter , the conveyor belt , and the steel arch for roof support were quickly supplanting the old hand-methods , and for the stalls were substituting the long face where the coal-cutter undercut a greater length of the coal-seam , and the colliers , instead of working in pairs , now worked in groups , filling the coal on to the moving conveyor belt that ran parallel to the face . |
| 8 | PEOPLE mopping up their homes were yesterday warned the heavy rains could continue until after the weekend . |
| 9 | At that time they say the Apaches were forever raiding the little pueblos and carrying off whatever they needed , clothes , weapons , some women and sometimes boys young enough to be brought up Apache-style . |
| 10 | The Allied guns were still shelling the German positions and there was a lot of activity going on . |
| 11 | From this one can infer that it belongs chronologically to that transition period in Spanish ceramics when the displaced potters of Malaga had set up afresh in Valencia but were still using the traditional designs of Andalusia in their new environment . |
| 12 | Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over |
| 13 | Fortunately they asked no more questions , and were still discussing the wonderful things I had seen , when Joe came in from the forge . |
| 14 | Glencoe were still putting the finishing touches to their new chairlift . |
| 15 | The two leaders were also discussing the American plans to deliver humanitarian aid by air to Bosnia , which Britain has welcomed but declined to join . |
| 16 | Very quickly , Polanski and Nicholson became darlings of the west coast film and rock-music communities , who were also selecting the new heroes of the screen — anti-heroes in fact — because it was old values that had kept those handsome , pristine hulks of the last generation at the top and old values were now strictly taboo amongst the young and trendy . |
| 17 | If we were now to consider the many sonnets of celebration of the Friend where the Thou outweighs the I we would find a similar dedication to the other without , I feel , any disabling by modern tastes — self-abnegation . |
| 18 | But I think Colin your main concern was n't it that perhaps we were n't hitting the right slots and ? |
| 19 | My wife Herta paid her first visit to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944 , which was perhaps unfortunate : we were then doing the Hungarian Jews , and at an incredible rate , something like 10,000 a day . |
| 20 | The implication drawn seemed to be that these two groups were irrevocably separated the practical men being for ever excluded from the highest mystical experiences . |
| 21 | They had just returned to the courtyard and were about to examine the various outbuildings when they heard the sound of running footsteps . |
| 22 | He was white and his eyes were anxiously watching the three horses , who had now separated . |
| 23 | Changes of some significance were evidently affecting the established dynasties of the northern and Mercian Angles as new princes emerged to dominate the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the early eighth century . |
| 24 | Although Self and Citrine lacked the confidence and knowledge to pressure the engineers on technical questions , both Hacking and Woodward on the Central Authority began asking increasingly awkward questions about whether they were unnecessarily foregoing the potential benefits of more advanced sets . |
| 25 | It was difficult to tell if those who had already risen were trying to help their fellows , or if those still recumbent were actually pulling the feistier ones back down , into the grave . |