Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus were explained anatomically the enormous jaws , high cheek bones , prominent superciliary arches , solitary lines on the palms , extreme size of the orbits , handle-shaped or sessile ears found in criminals , savages and apes , insensibility of pain , extremely acute sight , tattooing , excessive idleness , love of orgies and the irresistible craving for evil for its own sake … |
| 2 | By the end of this period the political groupings which were to carry out the great changes of the next century in Britain , though very far from having assumed their late-Victorian form , were slowly evolving . |
| 3 | It was to be another twelve months before the inhabitants of the valley , including the people settled here at Halling , were to see again the Roman Armies , with the local menfolk Possibly among the British force opposing them . |
| 4 | Little did we know that G P T did n't actually write the software properly , and what was happening was that people writing new numbers in were knocking out the old numbers , alright ? |
| 5 | The intentions behind the important reforms of 1988 were to tighten up the social security system in order to reduce the disincentives to work recognized as inherent in the poverty and unemployment ‘ traps ’ ( see Tables 16.7 and 16 . |
| 6 | As they were walking down the paved way to the Union building , Reynolds asked , ‘ How 's Michael , these days ? ’ |
| 7 | In Ancient Egypt , pig footprints were considered just the right depth for sowing corn , and at planting time , the farmer would walk behind a pig , dropping seeds in the impressions . |
| 8 | they were lying down the other day |
| 9 | ( If more volume really were needed then the direct outputs could be fed to a stereo power amp and then to additional speakers , but I 'm sure Marshall have aimed the S80 at a specific player who would find its volume adequate and who , if he or she needed more , would probably upgrade to a more powerful Marshall product . ) |
| 10 | As we were clattering down the worn red tiles of the corridor , a junior aide bumped into De Gaulle , apologising with great profuseness . |
| 11 | Before the New World was discovered and Australian resources were opened up the only source of opals known was situated in the Libanka and Simonka mountains north of Kosice in eastern Slovakia . |
| 12 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 13 | They were getting there the cheap way and combining adventure with the bonus of having their cars with them at the end . |
| 14 | Looking our of the aircraft window , we were flying down the Red Seat coast , the water aquamarine , coral reefs pale and shimmering beneath the water surface . |
| 15 | Yeah if you follow the sort of logic you were saying though the main business comes from wedding fairs , just three in the Autumn and three in the Winter . |
| 16 | The rebels briefly took control of much of Dushanbe on Oct. 25 , including the parliament , the presidential palace , the main mosque and the broadcasting facilities , but were driven out the following day by government forces . |
| 17 | If grammar schools were introduced then the existing comprehensives would suffer . ’ |
| 18 | In a moment the two of them were running up the wide curved stairs . |
| 19 | Then came the two incidents that were to echo down the long ages of Elf history and set the stage for the great dramas that were to follow . |
| 20 | By early evening the company second in command had exchanged his helicopter for a Land-Rover , and was out visiting the platoons in their trenches again , before returning to barracks to brief the part-time soldiers who were taking over the mobile patrolling tasks for the night . |
| 21 | Ryzhkov told Prunskiene that the Soviet authorities were to allow unconditionally the partial resumption of natural gas and raw material supplies to selected Lithuanian enterprises ( the gas supplies resumed on June 16 ) . |
| 22 | Almost before the mooring was completed the beaching party were towing out the beaching legs in order to get the aircraft into the hangar as soon as possible . |
| 23 | The readings were taken on the right arm of the seated subject after a minimum of 10 minutes ' rest . |
| 24 | MAJOR-GENERAL Michael Skinner , who has died aged 60 , was Director General , Weapons , from 1986 to 1988 , when many important decisions were taken on the future equipment of the Army . |
| 25 | Well , me and Andrew Love were talking backstage the other day , listening to our drummer and keyboard player having a jam out front , and I was humming this made-up saxophone solo , and he was going , ‘ Oh , God — if you were a sax player , watch out ! ’ |
| 26 | The Lincoln Red was at first known as the Lincolnshire Red Shorthorn : it originated when eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Durham and Yorkshire Shorthorn bulls were put on the large , rugged , pied Old Lincolnshire short-horned draught cows which could withstand all the weather thrown at this east coast county by the cold North Sea winds . |
| 27 | as if a finger were put on the naked soul ! |
| 28 | You were sitting right the other side of the stairs |
| 29 | Erm but I felt because we were sitting there the appropriate sociability went on longer . |
| 30 | THOSE who insisted that the Queen pay income tax were barking up the wrong tree . |