Example sentences of "were [adv] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the East these restrictions were either almost unknown , as in the Ottoman Empire , or were only slowly winning acceptance , as in Russia . |
| 2 | In the early days of computers , printers were basically electrically controlled typewriters . |
| 3 | You can still hear the resentment engendered in the villages by these schemes because of the way they were so clearly causing poverty and creating severe labour bottlenecks on the farm . |
| 4 | There was an improvement in the literacy levels amongst women , but they were handicapped by the fact that they were generally not taught Latin . |
| 5 | Mohamed Ali 's aims were not just to protect Egypt but to make her an expansionist power in the Eastern Mediterranean . |
| 6 | Details of the peace plan were also communicated to coalition leaders and to Iran , but were not immediately made public . |
| 7 | The Thwaites obviously did not subscribe to this tradition ( after all , they were not even considered Baldersdalians ! ) since John met his future bride when she was fifteen and in service at a farm in Lunedale . |
| 8 | The Mozarts were not only granted leave , but on this occasion presented with money by the Prince Archbishop . |
| 9 | During this time the bishops were not only rubbing shoulders with the experts in the coffee shop ( known as the Bar-Jonah ) , but they were also attending lectures by the periti . |
| 10 | It was a demonstration of what would happen if Franco were not there to impose order . |
| 11 | These were not necessarily rape trials . |
| 12 | Last night a spokesman for Scottish Enterprise denied there was any question of either its or LiS 's abusing power and insisted that they were not actively marketing Rosyth and it had been the market that has sought out the opportunities . |
| 13 | The Girls were not highly trained dancers and were frankly terrified of him . |
| 14 | A CPSU central committee resolution of July 3 , 1989 , complained that local officials were not fully implementing January decisions to erect memorials to such victims . |
| 15 | Certain authorities , originally identified by Sir Geoffrey Howe as potential recipients of enterprise zones in the 1980 Budget speech — notably Sheffield and Wolverhampton — were unable to reach agreement with the Treasury over this issue , and were thus not granted zones . |
| 16 | Arrests might rouse public sympathy for those who were thus apparently denied freedom of speech : |
| 17 | They were just about reaching exhaustion |
| 18 | The Men were progressing up towards them and were just about to reach Woil who , as usual , was swaying back and forth on his stance with a pleasant expression on his face as he intoned , ‘ Lovely Men , so good to me , so generous to Woil who is good and never tries to hurt you . |
| 19 | Well tell me what it was like for you , from your point of view , erm , erm coming to a New Town with a teenage son because most of the couples who came either did n't have any children or were just about to have baby |
| 20 | Encouraged by the words of the pop songs and those who were already well established users of various natural and manufactured mind-expanding substances , youth took a wrong turn — or the right one , depending on your stance at the time . |
| 21 | There were always freshly cut flowers in a blue vase on the table . |
| 22 | Dealers were always out to make money on the side . |
| 23 | CHANNEL 4 and independent programme makers Box Productions were yesterday jointly fined £75,000 over their controversial documentary on Loyalist murder squads in Ulster . |
| 24 | We were once more experiencing difficulties hopefully they would all be out before too long . |
| 25 | When they were once more walking side by side in the dusk , Julia said gently : |
| 26 | They were more commonly called plough-bullocks from the fact that they pulled the plough in the procession . |
| 27 | The problem of supervision was not limited to Stockport : in 1652 the Goldsmiths were still regularly paying Read 's £10 to the school in Cromer , but they had no idea whether it was still a Grammar School . |
| 28 | As to Hugh , his complete disappearance could best be explained if he were still doggedly pursuing Marian through the deep tangles of the forest ; if he had lost track of her he would presumably find his way back to the highway and rejoin them later . |
| 29 | Some of us were still there to see Oxford when the lights came on again : V.E. night saw floodlighting return not only to some of the ancient buildings but also ( with apparatus hastily improvised by members of the university ) to a magnificent horse chestnut tree in Parks Road in full blossom , its blaze of floodlit white ‘ candles ’ making a spectacular welcome to the return of peace and light . |
| 30 | It was two minutes past midnight when he walked through into the Chapters Bar , where a dozen or so late-night ( early-morning ) drinkers were still happily signing bills . |