Example sentences of "were [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , the solutions to the problems were rarely of the government 's devising . |
| 2 | Some were only on a month 's loan . |
| 3 | Those of them which were not about the Englishman 's standard of living ( no peasant wooden shoes and no Irish potatoes ) were shared by many of the " middling people " ; these were the issues and they were more important than any lingering popular Jacobitism , although that sentiment certainly existed . |
| 4 | But I think it 's fair to say that the changes in the n nine , early nineteen eighties particularly those which gave the unions a predominant position in choosing the leader , were not of the unions ' making , certainly not of the G M B's making , as I know from personal experience at the time . |
| 5 | Perhaps the jeweller she kept house for could read , but the things Sarah wanted to say were not for a stranger 's eyes . |
| 6 | As far as I know , the all the people who voted er for the amendment , will continue to do so and a great many of of those who voted against it and were quite unaw were not at the time a fully aware of what is proposed , er may well change their mind . |
| 7 | I did , you 'll have to forgive me , I mean I think for the sake of those who were not at the meeting erm what we should really say is that actually said that he wanted to hear what kind of a parish we are so that he could attempt to match the , the incoming priest with you know the need of the parish . |
| 8 | Two students in particular , Jane and Mark , embody many of the problems encountered by those students who were not amongst the department 's high-flyers . |
| 9 | In both cases their parents took decisions for them which , in my view , were not in the boys ' best interests . |
| 10 | If the consignor wanted to ensure that no person other than the consignee or the lawful holder of the bill could claim delivery , he could stipulate that delivery required production of all the copies or parts of the set that were not in the master 's possession . |
| 11 | In 1739 , for example , the Duke of Montrose was advised that the gentlemen of Stirlingshire had determined to enliven the normal Michaelmas proceedings with an assembly and race meeting , a project whose promoters were not among the duke 's political friends . |
| 12 | Obviously these latter disasters were largely outside the President 's control , but the generally poor state of his relations with congress was not inevitable . |
| 13 | She nursed his ailments too , and with a needle from a certain yucca picked out the chigoes from his feet , neatly , so as not to burst the sac in which the nits were hatching and release them into his flesh : the insects between his pink and white toes were just like a shrimp 's roe . |
| 14 | So you were always , you were always faced with this er coming from the membership you know , that we were always like the cow 's tail you know , we 'll always be behind . |
| 15 | Last night Carol 's distraught parents , from Southport , Merseyside , were still at the newly-weds ' home in Los Angeles . |
| 16 | If , if the barriers were down er and you were still on the railway er th ah there 's only way you can escape . |
| 17 | When Jarvis came to take over the house , although a good many people had been inside it and others had lived in it , the chair and the stool were still in the bellringer 's room . |
| 18 | Alexandra Loyd , her cousin Diana Wake-Walker and Claire Pratt , the daughter of her godmother Sarah Pratt , were also at the all-girls ' boarding-school near Diss in Norfolk . |
| 19 | A 22-year-old man , from Bath , who suffered serious head injuries , a 16-year-old girl , from Keynsham , a man , aged 24 , from Saltford , and a woman from Brislington , Bristol , were also in the city 's Royal Infirmary . |
| 20 | No , you were out in the kitchen erm he went and I thought oh do n't you dare |
| 21 | Three weeks went by and we were back at the vet 's surgery . |
| 22 | Two hours later we were back at the Aiguille du Midi . |
| 23 | In fact , if it were n't for the program 's stunning speed , you could easily believe you were running a Windows application . |
| 24 | One or two people said that you were n't in the Americans ' league . ‘ |
| 25 | You did n't have to be a genius to work out they were n't from the Lord 's Day Observance Society . |
| 26 | The Swedes at one time , they designed er a stabilizer which was er a type hydraulic rather than a mechanical hydraulic er er stabilizer , and subsequently all the materials that I was talking about , the levers and you know , all the rest of it , were not required , and it shrunk the size of the thing er so low you know , that er the British manufacturers had to look , because the Swedes were then in the market er in a competitive way to take on Brothers or anybody else who were prepared to er produce them under licence . |
| 27 | The reasons for referral were either at the patient 's request because of an unwillingness to undergo an operation ( 70% ) or because the patient was a high operative risk ( 30% ) . |
| 28 | He achieved this only by disobeying his firm 's orders that he should sell certain stocks at certain times , and by slipping in bargains here and there that were actually in the client 's interest . |