Example sentences of "were [art] [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Nov. 15 protests were the largest since the crushing of demonstrations in Bucharest by miners in June [ see pp. 37544-45 ] . |
| 2 | He concluded that , albeit the discretion he had under section 78 of the Act of 1984 might be wider than the discretion at common law , the criteria of unfairness were the same whether the discretion was being exercised at common law or under the statute , that paragraph C10.1 had no application to the situation , and that admission of the challenged evidence would not have an adverse effect on the fairness of the trial within section 78 . |
| 3 | Held , dismissing the appeals , ( 1 ) that , in considering the discretion to exclude evidence on the ground of unfairness , it could not sensibly be judged by different standards depending on the source of the discretion , for the criteria of unfairness were the same whether the discretion arose at common law or under section 78 of the Act of 1984 ; and that , since the judge had considered the operation including obtaining the fingerprints as a whole , the exercise of his discretion was not only not unreasonable but was correct ( post , pp. 234H — 235A , 236A ) . |
| 4 | On the other hand , if Marx , like most of the anthropologists of his time , saw the study of human society as the continuation of biological evolution , he did not , as they did , believe that human historical processes were the same as the processes of natural selection . |
| 5 | In effect , these were the same as the general powers of a parent over a child of less than 14 years . |
| 6 | Mendeleev resisted evolutionary speculations , and also refused to speculate on whether the chemical atoms composing the elements were the same as the physical atoms imagined by natural philosophers , the ultimate building-blocks . |
| 7 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 8 | Those People treated me as if I were no better than an animal . |
| 9 | Picking up the axe as though it were no heavier than a bread-knife , Jos indicated the unsplit wood . |
| 10 | I run one of the self-help groups that one of the ladies mentioned and we looked at an outsize catalogue recently and it went up to size twenty six and in some cases up to a size thirty and the ladies who modelled the clothes were no bigger than a twelve , possibly a fourteen , but a very shapely fourteen ! |
| 11 | Cornish cattle and the Pictish cattle of Orkney in the tenth century were no bigger than the old Iron Age types and were short-horned . |
| 12 | By 1948 , although living standards in general were no higher than a decade previously , the average domestic consumer was using twice as much electricity as then , but paying only half as much for it per kWh in real terms . |
| 13 | You were no worse than the rest of them . |
| 14 | Removed long before the shells had time to form , they were no more than a cluster of marble-sized orange balls in a thick yolky substance . |
| 15 | But this confused political and economic independence , as if politics were no more than a reflex of economics . |
| 16 | You were no more than a boy the last time I saw you … twelve , thirteen at the most . |
| 17 | I were no more than a lad myself . |
| 18 | It was as if she stood in a noisy limbo ; all the yesterdays had gone as if they had never been and all the tomorrows were no more than a tantalising promise . |
| 19 | The tenacity of his loyalty brought him back again and again to the perfect womanliness of Cis and the unmatchable maleness of Ifor , but in his wider field of operation they were no more than a couple of reference points : the rest of the map had to be filled in — by Philip , by Meredith , by rugby heroes , by the poets , but most of all , and as he went along , by himself . |
| 20 | Out across the water , the end of the lake had not yet emerged from the mist , and the mountains above it were no more than a delicate shadow of grey against a deep grey sky . |
| 21 | Donna kept on walking , aware that her two unwanted attendants were no more than a foot or so behind her . |
| 22 | Apart from one or two struggling and shrivelled survivors , the roses were no more than a memory . |
| 23 | It preferred , apparently , to revel blindly in its senses , as though life were no more than a rout of appetite and sensation rather than the dream of gold she sought to share . |
| 24 | But to press into service , as though it were no more than a compendium of useful organs , the body of a servant , a friend — and a friend , at that , who died for a crime attributable to one 's own negligence — well , this moral madness placed him beyond human consideration . |
| 25 | He bent , seized my wrist , and dragged me towards him as if I were no more than a doll . |
| 26 | He carried her as if she were no more than a disobedient child back down the path to the fountain . |
| 27 | With a brief nod , as though she were no more than a casual acquaintance , he closed the door . |
| 28 | And he had spoken of her as though she were no more than a female to be used and then discarded . |
| 29 | as if history were no more than a dream . |
| 30 | The natural resources of Florence were no more than the four elements available to all simple communities since antiquity : earth , air , water and fire . |