Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1	Parents were merely using it as a front to hit back at them over the premises issue .
2	Her two sons had watched the scene from a distance and were soon to report it to the authorities .
3	The BBC were thus putting themselves in a very difficult journalistic and legal position .
4	According to a report in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 19 , Mahathir 's position was not being directly challenged , but many senior UMNO leaders were nevertheless positioning themselves for a future succession battle .
5	Bourdieu wonders how structural anthropologists could be seduced into positing the existence of the rule when informants were just using it as a strategy .
6	We were already congratulating ourselves on a smooth and successful ascent , but you must beware .
7	Improvements in firms ' procedures were deemed necessary in many of the firms the Joint Monitoring Unit ( JMU ) visited , but in many cases firms were already implementing them by the time of our visits .
8	We were once promised something of the sort from Anna Ford back at ITN , but it never happened .
9	Fourth , and finally , the rejection of the Athenians by the Spartans makes more sense if the Ephialtic reforms are seen as part of a process rather than as an event , that is , if the qualities which the Spartans feared were gradually manifesting themselves over the whole thirty-year period , 487–457 .
10	The emergent divisions of labour in industrialised society were also a prime means by which modern societies were still sustaining themselves in a relatively conflict-free way .
11	The Communists were busily isolating themselves from the labour movement ; the Independent Labour Party was about to do the same .
12	The key words , which were later to become something of a catch-phrase , were ‘ fresh start ’ .
13	He had to — they were doubtless watching him on the closed-circuit television .

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