Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adj] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they were similar enough in method and assumption to suggest possible cross-fertilization . |
| 2 | He says : ‘ They were rare even in Binks ’ day , but the strange thing was that there was a tradition among the people who lived up there in those days to make a ball out of clay and cover it with spring gentians . |
| 3 | Cork-stoppers had been used by the Romans as long ago as 500 BC , but were ‘ lost ’ to the French when the Romans left Gaul some twelve hundred years before Dom Pérignon 's day , though they were available elsewhere in Europe . |
| 4 | The P-51s and P-47s in Japan were being replaced by jets ; these might be obsolescent viewed from the highest standards but they were acceptable enough in Korea . |
| 5 | The hints would work only if they were true both in fact and in fiction . |
| 6 | Undoubtedly there were men who made substantial fortunes , but there is not sufficient evidence to say whether they were exceptional merely in the scale of their gains or because they contrived to prosper when others failed . |
| 7 | On neither occasion were the media at all interested in covering the good news ; they were interested only in hyping up the bad news . |
| 8 | He thought they were old already in 991 ; he saw they could be said as well by a heathen as a Christian ; he thought the fierce spirit they expressed was one of the reasons for Beorhtnoth 's rash decision to let the Vikings cross the river and fight on level ground ; they had led to defeat and the death of the innocent . |
| 9 | Perhaps just one more éclair — God , they were minute enough in all conscience . |
| 10 | Arsenal 's jump to the top of the pile — they were last there in May 1991 — is ominous indeed , particularly as they 're on one of their famous rolls . |