Example sentences of "were [adv] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some , like the building on Site 3 , were little more than flag floors , presumably supporting a timber superstructure , while others had stone foundations and concrete flooring ; good examples of this type include the two buildings on Sites 5 and 6 , fronted by a common veranda . |
| 2 | The generators were individually tested , but unfortunately , during the tests of all but the Aero3gen and the Forgen , the winds were rarely more than Force 4 . |
| 3 | The specific protests against soil conservation policies and other related issues ( such as the taking away of land for settlers , plantations or the removal of forests ) have tended to follow the same pattern — of violent , politically primitive , and usually short-lived protest involving marches on towns or centres of perceived political power of their oppressors and occasional guerrilla warfare ( e.g. the Mau Mau movement in Kenya , although the issues involved were much wider than soil conservation ) . |
| 4 | Recent calculations with doubled CO 2 using a low-resolution general circulation model failed to produce an Arctic ozone hole partly , it appears , because the modelled January zonal mean temperatures in the Arctic lower stratosphere with current CO 2 were much higher than climatology . |
| 5 | Fashions change , and the hulk-like diesels that were so unwelcome as steam replacements twenty-five years previously were given a massive send-off from the new generation of enthusiasts . |
| 6 | Students studying on specialist IT programmes were less likely than conversion students to be in employment or to be seeking work ( Table 4.3 ) . |
| 7 | The most significant finding of these reports was of the over-representation of black youths on mode B schemes — or on schemes that were less likely than mode A schemes to lead to a job . |
| 8 | The rapid acceleration of house prices during the late 1980s ( which received added impetus from the rush by house buyers to beat the ending of multiple mortgage tax relief in August 1988 ) meant that highly geared first-time buyers were especially vulnerable when interest rates began rising during 1988 , and their exposure increased when house prices began falling at the end of 1989 . |
| 9 | Several researchers joined the group , masquerading as believers , and were thus present when midnight came and went without the prophecy being fulfilled . |
| 10 | What modules of data were already available as building blocks for computer programs without a major investment in new software ? 2 . |
| 11 | Because he was just doing the same job as he 'd been doing under the private under the L N E R. Management were more conciliatory when nationalization came on . |
| 12 | Other things , such as SCOTVEC were more worrying than NVQ 's . |
| 13 | conversion students were more likely than IT specialists to be both in work and to be seeking employment . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , ex-care women were much less likely to experience the protective effect of a non-deviant supportive spouse , firstly because they were more likely than comparison women to marry men with problems , and secondly because they were much more likely to be without any kind of spouse . |
| 15 | In the one such study reported , 91 women who had had a hysterectomy were more likely than age matched controls to report infrequent defecation and to have consulted a doctor for constipation . |
| 16 | This is highlighted in Gittins 's ( 1986 ) study of a Devon town in the years 1850–1930 , where she argues that relationships with kin were more important than marriage for the women in terms of the structures of support within which they were engaged . |
| 17 | Friends were more important than money . |
| 18 | So , slowly , Creggan came to learn the routine and the lore of the Zoo and , without realizing it , to let his world , which had once been so wide and full of hope and freedom , close in and grow small ; a place in which the trivial things like the way Woil talked to the Men , or where the vultures were , were more important than flight , freedom , the sky and the winds they were banned from . |
| 19 | The mythic animals are an even stronger reminder that the fresco artists were depicting another world than the everyday one ; it is a symbolic world where general concepts such as fecundity were more important than accuracy of detail . |
| 20 | Soup kitchens were more numerous than blast furnaces , and Coalbrookdale declined almost into an industrial ghost town . |
| 21 | Social services workers were more optimistic than health colleagues about the extent to which GPs and residential providers were actively involved in community care planning . |
| 22 | However , the increase in oil prices in the 1970s gave fresh support to the coal industry , major new pits were initiated in North Yorkshire and Leicestershire and job losses were still moderate when manufacturing fell under the impact of recession in 1980 . |
| 23 | Equally straitened is Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp , which reported plunging profits that were still better than forecast : it is cutting its bonus for executives by 20% in the year to March 31 1994 , Reuter reports from Tokyo , adding that it is also considering reducing bonuses for senior managers as well as stopping increases of wages of those above section manager ; the company sees intense competition . |
| 24 | She looked warm and comely but her eyes were still black as night and her face spoilt by that false , simpering smile . |
| 25 | Her little hand trembled in his much larger one , but Guy was too stunned to notice that she did n't pull away , although he continued to hold her as though she were as fragile as glass . |
| 26 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 27 | As matchmakers , we did n't know the meaning of the word failure ; on the ramp , stunning successes were as cheap as spit . |
| 28 | And added my own selfish after-thought that the whores in Paris were the most skilled in the world , whilst cups of claret were as cheap as water there ! |
| 29 | IF BUSINESS were as simple as sport it would now be possible to present a league table for the 1989 season , showing games played and points won and leaving one company out on top . |
| 30 | As accessories , the Libyans who supplied those components were as guilty as hell , as guilty morally and legally as anyone directly involved in commissioning or committing mass murder . |