Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the words were almost a line long and all looked the same . |
| 2 | The words were less a request than an order . |
| 3 | Lin McLean , a Strathclyde University student counsellor and AUT activist , said she had not had anyone come to her with problems over a tutor-student relationships in eight years , and that the guidelines were only a guide to help union members in a delicate area of their work . |
| 4 | my legs were never the least bit apart — |
| 5 | Indeed , one wonders sometimes whether the apparent simplicity of such political remedies has , in some peculiar way , affected the diagnosis of the supposed ‘ sickness ’ in the first place ( undesirable qualities , low levels of skill , weak subject expertise ) to which those remedies were presumably a response ; whether the remedies have produced the sickness , rather than vice versa . |
| 6 | The readers were simply an unlooked-for hazard . |
| 7 | Journalists were also the targets of violence in other countries such as Pakistan , India , Togo , Sudan and the USA . |
| 8 | European traders were really no problem ; they usually negotiated with his direct vassals or with princes lower in the scale . |
| 9 | Our battlefields were once a cathedral , silent until the congregation of mankind entered . |
| 10 | Medieval Scottish castles were once the homes of kings , queens and local lairds , but a three year ecological survey , commissioned by the Government agency Historic Scotland and undertaken by Northern Ecological Services , is finding new castle inhabitants . |
| 11 | Maybe this is because Wodehouse 's country house settings were always a never-never land which defy visual translation , whereas his view of America , however far he sent up his adopted country , had closer links with reality . |
| 12 | The shortages were primarily a consequence of a blockade by Azerbaijan — itself a result of the dispute over Nagorny-Karabakh — which had forced the closure of pipelines bringing Turkmen gas to Armenia via Azerbaijan . |
| 13 | The shortages were primarily a consequence of an Azerbaijani blockade — itself a result of the territorial dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 14 | The shortages were partly the result of reduced capacity at two main refineries which helped process the 1,700,000 barrels of crude oil produced per day . |
| 15 | While Japanese computers were hardly a factor in the boom years , they were to become a major force in the 1980s . |
| 16 | Jews were supposedly a nation within a nation who owed allegiance to an international community rather than to the British State . |
| 17 | The colourful pictures were much the same , the number of PWRs around the world had increased , but there was one major difference . |
| 18 | By November 1985 it became apparent that the real antagonists were neither the Westland company nor British Aerospace , but Michael Heseltine , as a vigorous champion of the European link , and Mrs Thatcher . |
| 19 | ‘ The shops were rather a home from home , not the most efficient of places , ’ says Major Bourne-Arton . |
| 20 | But , increasingly , their own shops were also a highly successful means of serving this end ; many young couples were buying the lightweight fabrics , because they were so cheap , and using them for furnishing . |
| 21 | Among the authors were also the Deputy Interior and Defence Ministers , Gen. Gromov and Varennikov , leading some commentators to see in it the veiled threat of a military coup . |
| 22 | It was about a week later and my leathers were still a little ruffled after the grating incident when I saw him sitting all alone in the waiting room . |
| 23 | And which is natural because you know , the very early motor cars were only a sort of toy for the rich as it were and er when it came to you see er grocer 's vans or , or er laundry vans made out of old pr private cars . |
| 24 | Its working methods were almost a caricature of those prevailing in high political bodies in Moscow . |
| 25 | The trouble was , all these methods were now the staple diet of Radio 4 plays . |
| 26 | The great rat 's eyes were exactly the same . |
| 27 | With a squeal , a scantily clad girl whose eyes were twice the normal human size scampered out , to be caught by one of those guards and led away . |
| 28 | Among the sinecures were chiefly the remaining canonries in cathedrals and colleges . |
| 29 | These images were precisely the same as those invoked by Tory propaganda . |
| 30 | The Scots were also the first home union to introduce a fully competitive league programme , which they did in season 1973/74 . |