Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The air-conditioning ducts serving his quarters and bureaux as well as the politburo 's chamber and other appropriate parts of the building were ripped out in a most difficult , complicated exercise . |
| 2 | Although at the time they were made up of an apparently infinite chain of familiar days , I can think of them now only as a whole . |
| 3 | It is noticeable that parents often react against their own experience so that , for example , if they were brought up in a too restrictive atmosphere with little spoiling , they may spoil and leave their children without enough boundaries and routine . |
| 4 | Who were brought in at a very level . |
| 5 | Thomist theology and philosophy were laid down in a rather ossified form as the normative Catholic intellectual system , drawn from the Middle Ages and therefore free of any taint of modern influence . |
| 6 | He charts an unfolding if uncertain logic which goes back to the way in which the welfare state was put together after the war , as pieces were tacked on in a rather haphazard way to existing state institutions . |
| 7 | Perhaps , like the mudskipper , they were tempted out by a hitherto untapped source of food , for already at this period there were abundant worms , snails and the ancestors of insects . |