Example sentences of "[adj] were [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For if this were really the case , a communicative approach would have little or nothing to commend it . |
| 2 | The late Hans Keller , the most peppery and venerable writer on music since George Bernard Shaw , dearly wished that this were still the case . |
| 3 | Mr Kirkland said : ‘ If this were so the Safety Authority would not let us go ahead and build the tunnel . |
| 4 | Yet if this were indeed the law , then surely the Act must have had as its object something of greater moment than the nudie magazines and nude pamphlets which British juries were asked so regularly to assess for depravity . |
| 5 | These were either the study of technology integrated within a general study of human adaption to the environment , which presupposed a particularly immediate relationship between society and the environment , or alternatively an anthropology of art which , by contrast , emphasized the greatest possible distance between people and their environment , in order to focus upon exotic and esoteric practices . |
| 6 | Shanks 's name is permanently associated with the system of vats , known as ‘ Shanks 's vats ’ , introduced in 1861 for the extraction of the soda from black ash in the Leblanc industry for the production of alkali , but these were never the subject of a patent . |
| 7 | For a long time , it seemed as if these were merely the ranting of a bitter exile . |
| 8 | Wright acted as Chairman with two principals , John Haddon and Samuel Davis , and these three were probably the founder members . |
| 9 | The initial allocations of Partnership spending in the late 1970s were often the result of the large , better-prepared and more politically-aware departments putting forward their cases more persuasively than the others . |
| 10 | Sometimes she had the strangest feeling he knew her better than she knew herself , and if that were truly the case then how on earth was she to go on protecting herself ? |
| 11 | If that were indeed the case their Englishness was certainly no impediment to involvement in a cosmopolitan , international world in which French speech and culture was dominant . |
| 12 | Professor Dolley argued that raids on western England in the 980s were partly the responsibility of Scandinavians who had settled in Ireland , and that Æthelred 's expedition into Cumberland in 1000 , and the activities of his fleet in the Irish Sea , were in all likelihood the result of provocation in that area . |