Example sentences of "were [adv] [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he realised that they were presumably so poor that even a choice of cornflakes or lumpy porridge , along with underdone toast and margarine , had the overwhelming attraction of being free . |
| 2 | She was wearing what she considered to be an ageless garment — a hip-length coat of black watered taffeta ; the shoulders were rather too narrow and too sharply defined to be precisely fashionable , but the material was of most superior quality . |
| 3 | With him the courts were rarely wholly open and never , except occasionally at Aix , wholly shut . |
| 4 | In the earlier period the reports were much less explicit than now . |
| 5 | The sea powers around the Mediterranean used bronze cannon which were much more elegant and probably more accurate but cost about four times as much . |
| 6 | Her second visit could not be accounted a complete success , though we were much more intimate than before , and wept a lot together about the baby . |
| 7 | They were much more enlightened as well . |
| 8 | Some of the strategies entered in Axelrod 's tournament were much more sophisticated than either Remorseful Prober or Naive Prober , but they too ended up with fewer points , on average , than simple Tit for Tat . |
| 9 | When direct dealing costs , brokerage and VAT were included they tended to help filter out the trades that were only marginally profitable and hence raised the overall profitability . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been isolated for so long and we all thought we were so bloody good but now we have to accept the reality that we are not . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She and Elizabeth , they were just so talented and so go-getting . |
| 12 | The Marxist Left drew attention to the fact that the sources of industrial conflict were just as explosive as ever . |
| 13 | For these reasons , and also because elderly patients were usually less mobile and less likely to leave the area , key workers for elderly patients were sometimes seen as redundant . |
| 14 | However , our impression is that committees in the Major Project schools were usually more participatory and less dominated by key senior staff than the examples of these two schools might suggest . |
| 15 | It was as if a light had been extinguished ; the colours which were once so bright and clear had grown blurred and faded . |
| 16 | And then , leaning back in his chair , lounging like all the gentry seemed to do , as if they were permanently half asleep and just about to put their spurred and booted feet on the table , he 'd said , " If the new government won t play your way then you 'll have to stir it up a little , wo n't you ? " |
| 17 | Three initiatives in particular " confirmed " their fears : a seminar series held in 1954 and entitled " Encounters between Poetry and the University " , which were ostensibly purely cultural but always became highly politicized ; a projected " Congress of Young University Writers " , planned for November 1955 by pro-democratic students and progressive Falangists , but banned by the Ministry of the Interior ; and the idea of a " National Congress of Students " , in preparation for which a manifesto calling for the abolition of the SEU monopoly of student representation was circulated in universities throughout Spain in early 1956 . |
| 18 | One school , deciding that extra space for resource-based learning was a priority , took over a classroom for use in unstructured individualized work , with the result that other classrooms including some specialist rooms were more heavily used than before ; teachers complained that they could not get in to put up work on the blackboard beforehand , and were introduced to the more thorough use of the overhead projector ; the timetabler had to bear in mind the needs of some practical subjects where the previous laying-out of equipment was vital , but the exercise was valuable in focusing attention on such priorities and making them clear to everyone . |
| 19 | Consequently , economy-wide bargaining units were more organisationally practicable and easier to establish . |
| 20 | ‘ She shot up the field and then paused , stood her ground although we were still quite close and suddenly began to eat grass . ’ |
| 21 | On the way north to China they were still quite healthy and well fed , but on the return , the pass comes near the end , when both ponies and men were weak from hunger and exhaustion . |
| 22 | Whitton 's and Fitzormonde 's deaths at the Tower were still as unfathomable as ever . |
| 23 | GIST teachers were slightly less traditional and more in favour of equality of the sexes than other teachers . |
| 24 | Some employers became aware that the efficiency of the workforce could be increased not only by capital investment and technological improvement , but by ‘ increasing the efficiency of human capital ’ , i.e. by improving working conditions and providing welfare benefits for workers , so that they were both physically stronger and psychologically more secure and hence able to work harder . |
| 25 | Even to speak of those by-now famous evenings as a coterie is to imply that they were both more formal and more enclosed than was the case . |
| 26 | They were both very demanding but always rejected something in such a way that it did n't upset you . |
| 27 | We were both very wet and still not quite in agreement by the end of the day . |
| 28 | Estabrook said , glancing towards the kite-fliers , who were both too distant and too involved in their sport to be eavesdropping . |
| 29 | They were both too old and too worn to read such nonsense , that princess , this frog . |
| 30 | And we have counselled many women who were both mentally bright and physically beautiful , whose personal assessment was that they were stupid and ugly . |