Example sentences of "were [adv] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be stressed again , however , that although a specialized function might well exist , many small towns ultimately came to possess a range of functions , not least those which were most conveniently placed to exploit their full urban potential . |
| 2 | Once established , however , this function is likely to have assumed an over-riding importance at those towns which were most suitably placed to exploit its potential . |
| 3 | Hardly any have unmarried daughters , who in the past were most often expected to do the caring . |
| 4 | The institutions themselves , being closer to the work in question , were much better placed to fulfil that responsibility . |
| 5 | The wounds Giles had inflicted were only just beginning to heal . |
| 6 | The standpoint of Coburn 's story was an extrapolation of machine intelligence , written at a time when computers were only just beginning to encroach into the commercial environment of Britain . |
| 7 | " We were only just beginning to listen to Bach " , said one Iranian businessman . |
| 8 | The word pirate was perhaps not so strong a term of condemnation as in later centuries : European rulers were only just beginning to acquire for themselves , on behalf of their states , a monopoly of the use of force . |
| 9 | All the women in the conference planning group had so far been white , and we were only just beginning to respond to Black women 's demands that we examine our racism , and tackle it . |
| 10 | All remembered and periodically still experienced the vicious attacks on them which the Communists were only just beginning to abandon . |
| 11 | There was a red car waiting outside the farmhouse when she reached it ; the car 's wheels had cut deep tracks through the long grass , tracks that were only just beginning to fade as the plains wind breathed across them . |
| 12 | Similarly , few word processing packages can accurately hyphenate and justify text that is proportionally spaced as they were only ever designed to handle monospaced characters . |
| 13 | There was nothing explaining the makeup of the organisation which all of us were so desperately trying to join . |
| 14 | Compared with the previous county elections in 1989 , the Liberal Democrats ' vote rose most in the south of England — where they were generally better placed to win seats . |
| 15 | Prisoners were not normally allowed to visit the library to choose their own books . |
| 16 | They announced they were not even prepared to come in and talk . |
| 17 | It soon became evident that nothing of the kind was forthcoming : the racist strictures of the War Office prevented promotional possibilities , blacks were not even allowed to join in combat with the enemy . |
| 18 | They were not even allowed to take such belongings as they had — pots and stools and the like . |
| 19 | Tourists and journalists , including , to their chagrin , the three American network , were detained in a hotel on the airport road and were not even allowed to watch the cars pass by . |
| 20 | Citizens were not even allowed to sing the Marseillaise for themselves . |
| 21 | In Orkney not only did the parents not see or have any access to their children , they were not even allowed to communicate by letter or telephone . |
| 22 | They were not even allowed to attempt to grow things in tubs in their black area , for reasons vague but peremptory , put forward by their landlady , an octogenarian Mrs Irving , who inhabited the three floors above them in a rank civet fug amongst unnumbered cats , and who kept the garden as bright and wholesome and well-ordered as her living-room was sparse and decomposing . |
| 23 | Since that time , it has become steadily more unbreakable , to the point where the courts were not even allowed to consider reports , written by Commissioners , on which legislation was based . |
| 24 | He saw the Labour Party 's position as a difficult one , and began his conversation with Stamfordham by saying rather patronisingly that in MacDonald 's position , he , Asquith , would decline office ‘ on the grounds that he and his Party were not yet fit to undertake the responsibility ’ . |
| 25 | After the revolution , those authors who were not simply names to fill space on the badly produced jacket were usually sufficiently embarrassed to try to explain away their participation in the cult of Ceauşescu and thereby in lengthening his rule . |
| 26 | The Germans were not simply going to let us walk in . |
| 27 | He claimed the South African federation were not legitimately entitled to conduct the testing , and they had not been conducted according to DLV rules . |
| 28 | Furthermore , evidence was described to support their contention that the events were of formative importance , and were not merely serving to trigger depression in a woman who would shortly have become depressed anyway . |
| 29 | For the most part , parents mistakenly thought their children were not legally entitled to vote , despite having voting cards , or they judged that their children would not understand what it was all about . |
| 30 | They were not legally entitled to do so as teenagers and various factors may trigger their desire to find their birth parents at this stage . |