Example sentences of "were [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the workers who remained in the public sector with CalMac were assured continuity of pension provision and that their pension arrangements would be unaffected . |
| 2 | ‘ So I thought if he were that kind of driver I would not get involved . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't think you were that kind of girl , ’ he said , ‘ and I sha n't see you again . |
| 4 | In an advertisement for paperbacks , two books were pictured side by side . |
| 5 | These 34 patients were referred ( 68% by consultants from other hospitals ) for non-operative treatment because they were high risk for surgery . |
| 6 | He only appeared when the boys were half way through supper ( corned-beef hash ) , and by then it was practically time for bed . |
| 7 | The men were granite figures , fearless in the primitive and dangerous under-earth world of coal : the women were half way to heaven — and in command . |
| 8 | It has not proved possible to determine the composition directly , which is difficult for a condensate , but the measured abundance of ammonia in the gaseous phase above the top of these clouds is about what would be expected were this ammonia in equilibrium with solid ammonia at the typical cloud top conditions of 0.5 bar and 148 K. There are thought to be relatively few breaks in the ammonia clouds , though the cloud tops need not be at the same altitude everywhere . |
| 9 | He was studying it reverently , as if it were some breviary of tobacco . |
| 10 | It 's as if his actual presence were some kind of inconvenience , like going to the toilet , as if his body were a mere nuisance . |
| 11 | That was another thing — it did n't help her to maintain her own sense of proportion when the rest of the world treated Luke Hunter as if he were some kind of royalty … |
| 12 | Chapter 14 shows how experts used to have immunity on the ground that they were some kind of arbitrator , until that immunity was swept away in 1975 , but that it is still difficult to sue an expert . |
| 13 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 14 | She had no objection to working for her keep , but if Penry Vaughan went on treating her as if she were some kind of serf she 'd stick to plain , basic cooking from now on , she thought resentfully . |
| 15 | Had she not known Félix so well , Alice thought , touching the necklace at her throat , she might now be feeling as if there were some kind of trap closing slowly about her . |
| 16 | If you photographed a dead Marine with a poncho over his face and got paid for it , you were some kind of parasite . ’ |
| 17 | The site that was identified or potentially identified by by the house builders in York was a site which both the County Council and the District Council considered performed a number of greenbelt functions , I think that it would be accepted that in any development plan land should only be allocated if there were some degree of certainty that it would come forward for development within the plan period , the site that was identified , there had been no objections made to the Southern Ryedale local plan so therefore there were no indications that it would have come forward for development within that plan period anyway , had it been identified , had it been allocated . |
| 18 | Their international position would improve , it was suggested , if there were some form of democracy . |
| 19 | He grazed through the streets as if he were some sort of god , head and shoulders above everyone . |
| 20 | I thought you were some sort of ghoul come to … come to do what ghouls do . ’ |
| 21 | Now priests and even a couple of bishops appeared and Sophia felt a sense of relief , as if their presence were some sort of guarantee of a safe flight . |
| 22 | I knew her for months before she admitted , in a low voice , what her job was — as if she were some sort of traitor to society . |
| 23 | William normally ate as if food were some sort of obstacle between him and the next vital task , an obstacle which had to be demolished in as short a time as possible . |
| 24 | The establishment was ringed with barbed wire , and guarded by men of the R.A.F. Regiment whose N.C.O.s kept discipline by threatening their men that misdemeanours would result in their being sent ‘ inside the Park ’ , as if it were some sort of madhouse . |
| 25 | Company takeovers , where a predator may try to raid the fund , were another area of concern . |
| 26 | The pictures were another source of inspiration . |
| 27 | Gordonians were second bottom of Division Three before Saturday but they came good in the final game , defeating Morgan Academy 29-0 to leap-frog the Dundee club . |
| 28 | Quakers were easy meat at home . |
| 29 | He was shocked to see that this beard , unlike his hair and whiskers which were dark brown in colour , was sprouting with an atheistical tint of ginger , only a little darker than the whiskers of the free-thinking Magistrate . |
| 30 | I were real rubbish at school . |