Example sentences of "were [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And none of them had the arranged marriages which were normal just one generation earlier . |
| 2 | Er further to what John said about the er , Young Inventor , we were fortunate enough last year to have er our competitor , or we had a , we held a competition locally |
| 3 | His own ideals were ecclesiastical rather then Roman . |
| 4 | The Andes of Peru , for example , provided animals like the llama and alpaca which were domesticated approximately 7 kyr BP , and in the Tehuacán Valley of Mexico the first permanent agricultural systems of the Americas were developed c. 8 or 9 kyr BP . |
| 5 | Walpole got full environmental approval , but it already has a state prison , and local residents were successful twice last year in lobbying the legislature to reject bills that would have made the land available for the harbour clean-up . |
| 6 | But thoughts of the administrative foul-up were far away last month when Mr Wright handed over Darlington 's peace offering and also gave sets of Kwik Cricket to schoolchildren at two Bridgetown primary schools . |
| 7 | were cheap then eighteen pound were n't it ? |