Example sentences of "[was/were] they [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor , obviously , were they a simple expression of Indian resistance to this assault . |
| 2 | Erm I w I was going to say , going back to China , erm they 're a bit frightened of China now in , in what was the Soviet Union I heard the other day , were th were they a little bit anti China 's type of communism before er the Soviet Union fell or were they all , all pals together ? |
| 3 | Were they the only agent or were there other agents ? |
| 4 | Were they the only people that used to use it like that ? |
| 5 | Elections were not the only occasions when those below the level of the elite could give voice to their political inclinations , nor were they the only points of contact between the world " out-of-doors " and that of Westminster . |
| 6 | The moral discourses of purity feminism were neither a reactionary barrier to feminist progress nor were they the simple expression of militant feminist consciousness . |
| 7 | Now what were they the other week from |
| 8 | Nor were they the same top three from one decade to the next : groups such as Kemsley disappeared , and the market share of a survivor such as Associated Newspapers fluctuated quite widely . |
| 9 | Not only were they the longest hours they had ever been called upon to endure , but the coldest . |