Example sentences of "were [adv] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you accept as a Euro enthusiast , that the opinion poll published by the commission three weeks ago , showed that the Labour party in their tepid support for Maastricht , were wholly out of line with the average Labour voter and in fact it shows quite clearly the majority of people in Britain , not only were opposed to Maastricht , they were also opposed to the idea that the E C was a good idea at all . |
| 2 | It was an often spectacular bus ride on which the waters of Lake Titicaca were rarely out of sight . |
| 3 | The problem with that was that every time me and James played , we played with varying degrees of attack on our guitars so we were constantly out of tune with each other because the strings were flapping around so much . ’ |
| 4 | That raid on Berlin of the 25/26 August pulled a psychological trigger in Nazi minds , and produced results that were entirely out of proportion to the military resources employed on that particular raid . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps we were better off with silence . ’ |
| 6 | It was a distressing part of his duty to have to tell people things they were better off without hearing . |
| 7 | Substantial parts of the urban population were better off in material terms and there had been changes in attitudes . |
| 8 | Nevertheless Turkey and Persia were swiftly back in disagreement . |
| 9 | In winter the small heaters were only on at night and the runs were open to the weather all day . |
| 10 | I did not want that , but I believed that the top salary awards were so out of line with what we were proposing in the rest of the public sector that in the real world of industrial relations it made my job infinitely more difficult . |
| 11 | In February 1991 , he was offered the manager 's job at Birmingham City , an English Third Division club , who at the time were so down at heel they resembled an inveterate gambler staggering from one bad bet to another . |
| 12 | We say Lake Rotoroa several thousand feet below , walked over the lip of a long , smooth slope and were suddenly back among trees . |
| 13 | When I was much younger , and not as religious as I am today , I thought that religious Jews had sex through a hole in a sheet , wore clothes from the last century , and were generally out of touch with life and the world we live in . |
| 14 | Pakistan hit back with claims that the England umpires were not up to standard , repeating calls for neutral officials in future . |
| 15 | Because its results were not up to expectations Rentokil is paying $2m less for the business than planned . |
| 16 | A letter was considered regarding a tutor whose students were not registered and who were not up to examination standard . |
| 17 | I hope , Madam Deputy Speaker , that my comments were not out of order or tasteless , but I shall rephrase them . |
| 18 | At the time , the Treasury forecasts were not out of line with the consensus , so most businesses were making production and investment plans based on projections of slow but positive growth in the economy . |
| 19 | In a statement tonight , the Hunt said the hounds were not hunting at the time of incident and were not out of control . |
| 20 | Once across , they turned and waved , then were soon out of sight beyond the belvedere . |
| 21 | Italian maritime aircraft were soon out in force searching for the British Fleet , but not until after midday was it at last spotted . |
| 22 | But Wimbledon were soon back in business four minutes after the break . |
| 23 | They were finally off to Italy and wanted to make an early start . |
| 24 | A chuchet storm was the time we were just in from April when the peesies were laying and there 'd just a come a flurry of snow . |
| 25 | Ditches old and new kept the new arrivals from too close an approach to the massive town walls , but , to be sure , this also applied in reverse ; the enemy were just out of range of Berwick 's cannon . |
| 26 | He led young engineers who were just out of school to perform engineering ‘ miracles ’ — record-time achievements that no one predicted . |
| 27 | ooh , they were n't there alright , I thought they were just out of order cos it was road repairs and a policeman was supposed to be on duty because it was this great big wide Upper Parliament Street , and going across it , if I look at Liverpool |
| 28 | With Okapi '86 we were already up against hardware constraints , as much due to disk access times as to CPU speed . |
| 29 | He would reach the Via Roma soon with its elegant shops many of which were already back in business after the War . |
| 30 | But they were quickly on to Mr Schwartz , who had paid young Freddy large sums of money for running errands for his shoeshine business . |