Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Flag printed New Year messages in 1914 from Lansdowne , Bonar Law , Selborne , Austen Chamberlain , Long , Carson , Smith , Steel-Maitland , Lord Edmund Talbot , and George Younger , in that order ; the last three were presumably included as Party Chairman , Chief Whip and Scottish Whip , but the rest of the list may be taken as indicative of a rough order of precedence at that time . |
| 2 | However , Paine 's observations were duly recognized when Florey and his colleagues published their substantial text on antibiotics in 1949 . |
| 3 | The arrival of ‘ Alcibiades ’ with his partying revellers is a bit of an anticlimax — a touch jaded rhythmically , almost as if Boughton and his crew were rather wishing that Bernstein 's Greeks had been philosophers first and swingers second . |
| 4 | The absence of Essex and Lancashire brought a new look to the boys ' championship and matches were keenly contested before Kent claimed the title . |
| 5 | Losses from the PCW case were eventually settled after contributions were made by Lloyd 's , the syndicate investors , brokers and other agents in the London insurance market . |
| 6 | Miss Elizabeth Brown , whose flat overlooks the alley where the dogs were eventually cornered and shot , said : ‘ I looked into the alleyway and saw the dogs going mad . |
| 7 | The other Met girls , Sheila , Marjorie , Babs , Dora and Jean were all very easy to get on with , and the Met Office was custom built for the job , with benches that were properly lit and stools the right height for us to work from . |
| 8 | The media were widely distrusted as agents of the white power structure , too willing to accept the accounts of white officials in preference to accredited black representatives . |
| 9 | Garages fire : A caravan and car were badly damaged when fire broke out in two garages on allotments at Sherburn village , Durham , yesterday . |
| 10 | Approximately 20 million healthy young Africans were forcibly transported as slaves to the ‘ new world ’ between the sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries , and this had a critical effect on Africa 's own development . |
| 11 | In the north , the Ping Tiao were effectively destroyed and Mach 's Yu were primed to step into the resultant power vacuum . |
| 12 | Even women who were constantly abused as children by fathers , stepfathers , uncles or family ‘ friends ’ can grow up with the idea that they 're somehow guilty themselves . |
| 13 | the landlords in Saigon are if you like more commercial , more capitalist , it might be they were better organized than landlords in the north . |
| 14 | I CA N'T believe the reader who claimed animals were better protected than humans . |
| 15 | The former did not invariably experience substantial development as commercial centres — some railway centres were better located than others — but were better placed to market their own products and to develop economically , even though Le Mans developed at the expense of Alençon , for example , and Orlèans , Besançon and Montpellier all lost some of their traditional importance in the wine trade , the last losing out to Béziers and Nîmes which were at junctions in the railway network . |
| 16 | Machismo was still very evident , for many people felt that men were better suited than women to lead and , in some cases , women had been forbidden by male relatives from entering politics . |
| 17 | Several Bolshevik commissars favoured such a compromise , but Lenin and Trotsky were adamantly opposed and negotiations broke down . |
| 18 | It seemed to suggest that the GLC and the LTE must try to break even , a course which was certainly feasible if fares were sufficiently increased and services sufficiently reduced , but which was politically as unacceptable to the government as it was anathema to the GLC . |
| 19 | Much time would have been invested in making these fine vessels , and many were apparently viewed as prestige items fit to be placed with burials of the period ( fig. 7.9 ) . |
| 20 | The Tôd cups were apparently offered as tribute from a Syrian king , perhaps the king of Byblos , which implies that there were complex and long-distance exchanges of goods in the twentieth century BC . |
| 21 | However , any thoughts of having to scan anxiously other team 's results at the end of the game , were swiftly banished as Heriot 's went 29-3 up after only 20 minutes . |
| 22 | The peasants were only to serve as conscripts , an unpopular exercise that was to prove a continuing weakness of Mohamed Ali 's army . |
| 23 | Lizzie became the focal point of Marjorie and Bill 's life ; holidays were only taken if Lizzie could go too . |
| 24 | His prints , produced at a furious rate , were eagerly bought and crowds would gather outside his publishers whenever a new etching was displayed . |
| 25 | His classification of organic reagents as anionic and cationic paved the way for the electronic theory of organic reactions , but , as the electronic formulations of ( Sir ) C. K. Ingold [ q.v. ] were simpler , these were generally adopted and Lapworth 's pioneering work was largely forgotten until the late 1940s . |
| 26 | The villages were patrolled by company uniformed ‘ policemen ’ whose ‘ duties were primarily concerned with the maintenance of the appearance of the village , keeping the lawns tidy and litter off the streets , for example ’ ( Waller , 1983 , p. 98 ) , but Waller 's respondents also reported company ‘ policemen ’ who watched over children 's play , recorded untidy properties ( ‘ It seems clear that the threat of dismissal was thought to hang over men who did not keep their gardens tidy in several villages ’ — p. 100 ) , and ensured that dogs were not kept as pets ( thus preventing the men from engaging in the popular contemporary sport among miners of training and racing greyhounds and whippets ) . |
| 27 | PCR products were not detected if RNA or reverse transcriptase was omitted from the reaction tubes . |
| 28 | Grabow and Elliott therefore carried out an experiment similar to that of McAdam and Whitaker and found that movements of the tongue to left or right induced asymmetric scalp potentials which were not observed when subjects merely had to think of a word . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , baser appetites were not neglected and Miss Lewis vouchsafes that ‘ Steve is also a brilliant lover , the very best I have ever known . ’ |
| 30 | But the successes of the 1340s and 1350s created expectations which were not fulfilled when war was renewed in 1369 . |