Example sentences of "[adj] were [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French were thus one hour from victory ; just one hour from separating the allied armies , yet as the sun climbed higher and as the smoke of the dying fires thinned , the French made no move to advance on the crossroads . |
| 2 | Some of the other letters in the box ( the typed ones ) were much less elegant , and seemed to have come from strangers ; they contained advice of a different sort , instructions about where to get sex and how much to pay for it if necessary , often these were just plain filth like I 'd like to do this to you and then I 'd like to do that to you , be at the top of the park in your grey school trousers and I 'll show you what a real man can do for you . |
| 3 | These were often displaced nurse managers who no longer had line management responsibilities at district level . |
| 4 | Five of these were fairly typical strip buildings , at least three with a room or cellar to the rear ; two others were open walled enclosures ; while there was also a possible shrine and a stone barn replacing a timber predecessor . |
| 5 | Now these were perfectly fine eating establishments that served wholesome food on crisp white table cloths , but were not the usual sort of house favoured by top stars . |
| 6 | These were usually private charter specials from Dolgellau to Rhyl , and in the main were worked by Collett 0–6–0 tender engines of the 2251 class . |
| 7 | Physique : Muscle-bound , and , sadly , dumper-bound were this hunky trio . |
| 8 | Most of these new rich were only one step removed from village life , and to have a brand new ‘ cottage style ’ house , and on an enormous scale , was for them extremely appealing . |
| 9 | It is not hard to portray the BR of the eighties Monty Python style with such stupidities as creating a semi-autonomous Cornish Railways with great enthusiasm one year only to abandon them the next as though that were equally great progress . |
| 10 | Five bishops during the course of 1326 suffered such confiscation ; four were under similar threat for the way in which they had earlier filled their royal offices . |
| 11 | And given that it was Godolphin himself who supplied these items — most were simply terrestrial trivia , revered in the Dominions because of their place of origin — and given that he would not cease to do so as long as the fever of collection was upon him and he could exchange such items for artifacts from the Imajica , Peccable 's business would flourish . |
| 12 | One of the two ribbon cables was damaged , a wire had broken off at the joint between the cable and the plug , and both were rather short making installation harder than it should have been . |