Example sentences of "were [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And none of them had the arranged marriages which were normal just one generation earlier . |
| 2 | They noted that asylums had a tendency to provide employment on farms and in workshops for the most competent and socially organized patients and there were some remarkably successful asylum farming ventures ; for example , in the early twentieth century Cane Hill Hospital became famous for its herd of pedigree pigs . |
| 3 | Lady Grubb had fallen easily into the habit of behaving to her children as if she were some doggedly snobbish godmother , inviting them home every few months to look into their marriage prospects and treating the occasion as if it were a country weekend that put her to a lot of trouble , though her house was actually in the middle of London and fully staffed with unhappy au-pair girls . |
| 4 | ( I never cease to marvel at the continued confusion in the public mind between nuclear power and weapons : too many people stare at me as if I were some unnaturally hybrid creature when I mention to them that I am both a member of CND and a strident advocate of nuclear power stations to produce electricity . |
| 5 | And your man would come up to us afterwards and say , ‘ Those were some very obscure cover versions you were playing tonight , but I liked a few of them … yeah , quite interesting . |
| 6 | In addition in the Jurassic there were some truly great coelurosaur types with fearsome talons . |
| 7 | Er further to what John said about the er , Young Inventor , we were fortunate enough last year to have er our competitor , or we had a , we held a competition locally |
| 8 | The people from the highest paid to the lowest paid were all just one unit . |
| 9 | But erm when I lost my sight then he had to close that down and come back so we were all under one roof again . |
| 10 | We were all so busy making plans , living dreams , that somehow Clare and I — and perhaps Mother too — were blinded to the truth , so evident around us : the unemployment figures , the era of mass production , a new industrial revolution in which machines did the work of thousands of men ; even the fact that ‘ wireless ’ was no longer a novelty . |
| 11 | His own ideals were ecclesiastical rather then Roman . |
| 12 | The Andes of Peru , for example , provided animals like the llama and alpaca which were domesticated approximately 7 kyr BP , and in the Tehuacán Valley of Mexico the first permanent agricultural systems of the Americas were developed c. 8 or 9 kyr BP . |
| 13 | Walpole got full environmental approval , but it already has a state prison , and local residents were successful twice last year in lobbying the legislature to reject bills that would have made the land available for the harbour clean-up . |
| 14 | But thoughts of the administrative foul-up were far away last month when Mr Wright handed over Darlington 's peace offering and also gave sets of Kwik Cricket to schoolchildren at two Bridgetown primary schools . |
| 15 | There were there were four there this morning when I went to work . |
| 16 | But the giant meccano structures further inland were two half finished oil rigs , the guide reassured . |
| 17 | were cheap then eighteen pound were n't it ? |
| 18 | I gather from the visitors ’ book that you were both there this afternoon , that 's the only reason for this visit . |