Example sentences of "[adv] were [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that people were no longer willing to put up with unsatisfactory Church officials ; laymen especially were developing a personal spirituality which gave them a new confidence and commitment to their faith and which also enabled them to form an independent view of theology and Church organisation ; they no longer had to rely on the educated establishment . |
| 2 | L Detachment was thus judged ready for operations , and to wind down were given a few days ' leave to be spent in Cairo . |
| 3 | This grew while the city docks declined and finally were closed a few years ago . |
| 4 | Thus were created the infamous Black Arks of Naggaroth . |
| 5 | Thus were re-echoed the papal teachings of the indissolubility of both Christian and non-Christian marriage and of the state 's obligation to reinforce that indissolubility ( Leo XIII 1903 : 68 , 77 , 78 — Arcanum Divinae 1880 ; Pius XI 1930 : 4 , 16 ; Code of Canon Law 1917 : 1013 ) . |
| 6 | Many of them , however , were attending , or had left , grammar schools , and thus were entering the middle classes . |
| 7 | The hunters accepted , and thus were founded the famous White Lions of Chrace , so called because they were garbed in the furs of the white lion . |
| 8 | Thus were removed the last measures remaining of the state of emergency first imposed in June 1986 and partially lifted in June 1990 [ see pp. 34663 ; 37522 ] . |
| 9 | County cricketers were paid for the summer and only the best were given a reduced wage to see them through the winter . |
| 10 | The proposal was made by the civil engineering firm Rendel Palmer and Tritton who , 30 years later were to play the key role in the Thames Barrier project . |
| 11 | Whether the two little fighting men are pricing themselves out of the market remains to be seen but both were threatening a stand-off . |
| 12 | Do you think you also were hitting the rawest of nerves within the church , and maybe within Archbishop McQuaid himself , by suggesting there may be homosexuality among priests and even implying that people could get pleasure from sex ? |
| 13 | Maybe Sal and Alec really were having a dirty weekend down there with the hedgehogs among the cow-pats ? ’ |
| 14 | Erm the questions you were asking just now were testing a possible implication that this policy is so weak in general , no no not weak , so general in its application that it really does n't get in the way , it 's testing that kind of hypothesis , and erm all I can say is from experience in North Yorkshire that , even without this policy since nineteen eighty , the county has been using its assertion of its need to protect the countryside generally as its policy position to stop things happening outside towns and villages and that with this policy in place we could see that a general position of the county maintained and then reinforced . |
| 15 | His actions from now on were to show an increasing ambivalence . |
| 16 | Erm there was a picture of a starving person in Ethiopia and on top of all those there were superimposed the opposite words love , joy , peace , forgiveness , happiness . |
| 17 | Fashions change , and the hulk-like diesels that were so unwelcome as steam replacements twenty-five years previously were given a massive send-off from the new generation of enthusiasts . |
| 18 | If the Cytherean greenhouse effect were ‘ switched off ’ but everything else were left the same the average surface temperature would fall from 730 K to 230 K. For the Earth , the corresponding temperatures are 288 K and 253 K. Thus , though Venus is closer to the Sun than the Earth its surface temperature would actually fall below that of the Earth . |
| 19 | Our airports too were reporting a rapid growth in drug offences by passengers , some of these on a very large scale . |
| 20 | Astropaths and defence officers were forever on duty in the librarium ; and within too were stored the original codices of the chapter 's ten thousand year heritage . |
| 21 | As Sheila told the story , everyone joined in her laughter , as though they too were remembering a shared experience , Annie too . |