Example sentences of "were [adv] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its cover was black and the plastic envelopes inside were rather smaller so that each page was displayed edged with black like a mourning card . |
| 2 | The church visitors were intensely embarrassed shortly after we had agreed to have door-to-door visitation for a forthcoming town mission . |
| 3 | Things were much easier then but th all these running boards were , were interpreted , if that 's the right word , on the master scheduling . |
| 4 | Gooch became the only player to score a fifty in the match and put on 95 for the first wicket with Boycott , but when the fifth wicket fell just before tea they were only 72 ahead and could still have lost . |
| 5 | You were only young too and perhaps you 'd found it difficult that first time , to avoid having to make another date . |
| 6 | Sgt Hayter 's problems were only half over as the height of the museum building was too low to allow assembly inside the building , so R5868 had to be assembled outside . |
| 7 | Hampshire were only 66 ahead when he took earnest guard , but he shared in stands of 170 with Brown , and 70 with Stuart Boyce , and remained undefeated on the Friday morning with 110 . |
| 8 | How can you now suddenly decide that this is the truth when you were so convinced before that I was guilty of every form of unscrupulous dealing possible ? ’ |
| 9 | The huge drops were so close together that they reflected the light , and the rain billowed and rippled like a silver-white curtain . |
| 10 | Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim so that he could not see ’ ( 27.1 ) . |
| 11 | We would like to point out that many people at the centre told us that the attitudes we had encountered were less prevalent now than they had been in the past , and would continue to diminish . |
| 12 | Quite frequently therefore a soldier might be appointed to head a mission in Berlin or St Petersburg in the justified belief that military men were especially welcome there and likely to be effective representatives . |
| 13 | Obviously many arts teachers are not entirely happy that the arts are examined at all , but in my interviews the majority of teachers were generally happier now that the new examination had replaced the old system — the most obvious benefit being the removal of the need to discriminate between the two former examinations . |
| 14 | Essentials that were not available locally and the growing desire for non-essentials must have been satisfied by surplus produce . |
| 15 | The ballot results had been unsatisfactory and results were not decisive enough as too few people responded . |
| 16 | Pleistocene changes of sea level were not simple up and down movements with reversion to a pre-existing level , but oscillations superimposed on a generally downward movement . |
| 17 | Even in the fifties my mother was still so relieved they were not poor anymore that she found spending money reassuring . |
| 18 | Mrs Browning did not wish to hold him , saying she feared her arms were not strong enough and that her cough might disturb him . |
| 19 | Upon taking up his new post , he discovered that the bearings were not strong enough and put great strains upon the axles which broke regularly . |
| 20 | They had seen no tracks and sighted nothing in the land below them , which Ratagan said was unusual for deer were not uncommon here as well as hill foxes and hares . |
| 21 | About half a sample of consumers who had used the Building Societies Ombudsman or the Insurance Ombudsman felt their schemes were not fair enough and nearly a third questioned their independence . |
| 22 | The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense . |
| 23 | She left the bitch in possession and took her evening meal up on deck — the evenings were just warm enough and light enough . |
| 24 | However , the Independent Television Commission ruled that the adverts were more tongue-in-cheek rather than sinister or sexist and that , in any , case the Naomi Campbell one had been moved to a post-9pm slot . |
| 25 | On the other hand , they were more optimistic yesterday than for many months that the long legislative process to make the single market a reality by December 31 , 1992 would be finished on time . |
| 26 | On the other hand , they were more optimistic yesterday than for many months that the long legislative process to make the single market a reality by December 31 , 1992 would be finished on time . |
| 27 | Higgs believed that the services of a working man 's wife were more valuable economically when they were employed at home than in the labour market . |
| 28 | The evidence from Charles the Bald 's reign is surprisingly clear : he could and did intervene thus — on numerous occasions and in counties that were vitally important politically and militarily . |
| 29 | At that time , the continents of North America and Europe were still close together and the Atlantic was no more than a narrow strip of sea between the two . |
| 30 | The heavy rain had subsided during the morning , but the pavements were still wet underfoot and a fine haze of moisture hung on the wintry air . |