Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as the words were out Shannon heartily wished them unspoken . |
| 2 | The gang of baddies were originally deer stealers ; and it was The Food programme , discussing the increasing availablity of game in High Street supermarkets , who had pointed out that at one time British prisons held more poachers than all the prisoners in France put together . |
| 3 | By 1928 when the vote was granted to women over 21 , the two sisters had ceased to communicate with each other — their ideas and lifestyles were now poles apart . |
| 4 | Another fifty-four who had been at state schools were also Oxbridge graduates . |
| 5 | By the l950s practically all maintained secondary schools were either grammar schools or modern schools . |
| 6 | Batterbee and his team tested six hypotheses with unimpeachable rigour : the first was that Scotland 's lakes were naturally acid and had not changed ; the second was that acidification was slow and pre-industrial ; the third blamed changes in burning or grazing ; the fourth implicated just conifer planting , and the fifth , decreased agricultural liming ; only the sixth implicated acid deposition from the combustion of fossil fuels . |
| 7 | The dominant religious beliefs among Sinhalese and Tamils were respectively Buddhism and Hinduism , but Christianity had made inroads into both ethnic groups . |
| 8 | As a nation , the Germans were far more formal dressers than the British : the only people around the centre of Osnabrück not wearing ties were obviously foreigners by the rest of their dress . |
| 9 | They added that the foreigners were not hostages ‘ in the normal sense of the word ’ but merely ‘ unable to move because of the rebel presence ’ . |
| 10 | IBM also said unit sales of personal computers were up 40% on a year-to-year basis and the IBM Personal Computer Co was profitable in the first quarter — but does that mean simply that as a quasi-autonomous company , a load of corporate overhead has been lifted from it and dumped elsewhere ? |
| 11 | IBM also said unit sales of personal computers were up 40% on a year-to-year basis and the IBM Personal Computer Co was profitable in the first quarter — but does that mean simply that as a quasi-autonomous company , a load of corporate overhead has been lifted from it and dumped elsewhere ? |
| 12 | Their heads were only inches apart . |
| 13 | Shareholders ' funds were almost £50 million at the year end ( 1991 £41 million ) . |
| 14 | The result of this was that net disinvestment in the colonies took place under the Labour government : inflows of funds were about £40 million , while sterling balances grew by £160 million . |
| 15 | The appointment and overthrow of individual emperors were largely matters of Italian politics , but they had significant repercussions in Gaul , not least because of the close personal connections between Ricimer and the Burgundian royal family , the Gibichungs . |
| 16 | But its governors of the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries were certainly administrators and soldiers , not settlers , and they returned to their English , French or Savoyard estates . |
| 17 | In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries covers were often boards in the true Anglo-Saxon sense , being of oak or beech covered with leather . |
| 18 | Doctors told the 28-year-old that the five slashes were just millimetres away from cutting his jugular vein . |
| 19 | Prolonged temper tantrums were not part of his personality . |
| 20 | To Tilda , however , the fine pictures were only extensions of her life on board . |
| 21 | Many of the urban craftsmen were also zimmi . |
| 22 | ‘ Overall our four shops were about 17% up on last year ’ , though even with this boost , trading in the calendar year will be down on ‘ 91 . |
| 23 | Such prodigies were invariably pupils of the three most prominent schools of the area — Queen 's , Dale and Selborne — whose monumental inter-school rivalries were temporarily suspended when their products did service for the province . |
| 24 | Its interests were imperial and its speakers were always men of distinction : members of the Cabinet , colonial Governors and the like . |
| 25 | The first dinosaurs were also flesh eaters , stalking and killing paramammals and crocodilian . |
| 26 | Other instances offered as giving rise to meritless acquittals were where protestors invaded military bases or private farmlands . |
| 27 | These were the Nicaraguan Social Christian Party ( PSCN ) and the Democratic Conservative Party ( PCD ) , whose presidential candidates were respectively Erick Ramírez Benavente and Eduardo Molina ; the Marxist-Leninist Popular Action Movement ( MAP-ML ) ; the Social Conservative Party ( PCS ) ; the Independent Liberal Party for National Unity ( PLIUN ) ; the ( Trotskyist ) Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) ; the moderate Movement of Revolutionary Unity ( MUR ) with Moisés Hassan as its presidential candidate ; and the Central American Unionist Party ( PUCA ) . |
| 28 | Kings had ‘ possessions ’ and ‘ subjects , ; the majority of subjects were not citizens and had no automatic rights . |
| 29 | It was hard to tell because his face was masked with ribbons of caked blood , and his eyes were just slits in a puffy mess of red and black bruises . |
| 30 | The opening of Sonnet 148 again criticizes his own powers of sight and discrimination : It is not only a failure in perception : as we have seen in 152 , the eyes were merely agents or instruments of the will or judgement , from which self-deception flowed , forcing the organs of perception to see what they are told to see ( as in the political conformity enforced in George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four ) . |