Example sentences of "were [adv] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its inhabitants were predominantly the members of the Issaq clan , and the SNM had been formed there in May 1988 . |
| 2 | Statesmen were rarely the tools of business in this period ; sometimes they made businessmen do their work for them and they were alive to the possibility of political influence being spread through such economic channels as chartered companies . |
| 3 | In the case of Chinn v Hochstrasser 54 TC 311 at 351 and 357 , the Court of Appeal held that an appointment by the trustees of a settlement under a special power did not contain an element of bounty since they were merely the agents of a settlor whose bounty had been exhausted on the creation of the settlement . |
| 4 | From the respectable view , these rogues were merely the dregs of civilization — potentially dangerous , it is true , but in no way a part of the true social order . |
| 5 | They were so the cabbages at |
| 6 | The summer visitors to Trebetherick were generally the families of retired headmasters of minor public schools , of ex Indian Civil servants or of Harley Street doctors . |
| 7 | Although built on customs and habits , institutions were nevertheless the repositories of ideas of the common good ; the challenge was to avoid institutional sclerosis by ensuring that they continued to meet contemporary needs . |
| 8 | ‘ Good , because those were exactly the orders for both of us this morning . |
| 9 | But 240–200 B.C. were exactly the years in which Greek epics , tragedy , comedy and historiography became part of the Roman way of life . |
| 10 | For a lord this meant securing the service of men who were already the servants of others . |
| 11 | For a lord this meant securing the service of men who were already the servants of others . |
| 12 | They were already the centres of civil administration , often derived from earlier minor kingdoms or tribal units , they usually possessed an early minster church and so were centres of ecclesiastical administration and they had already acquired some marketing functions more important than those of their neighbours . |
| 13 | I was once or twice approached by stony-faced nuns begging for charities , but I gave nothing because I felt sure that some of those nuns were fakes , possibly men in drag , for their big , dark , hollow eyes , dyspeptic noses bright red in chalk-white faces , compressed , colourless lips and faint moustaches were hardly the signs of religious penance , and they were all wearing rather large boots . |
| 14 | In Africa they were the hybrid offspring of an eagle and a wolf , and were usually the guardians of a fortune in gems , hidden in mountain caves or underground tunnels . |
| 15 | But if the company of the Yanks was ‘ out ’ for most of us , there were always the concerts in the Town Hall . |
| 16 | But there were always the acres of parkland , garden , and water , and always friends happy to come and stay . |
| 17 | We were always the guests of some local parish priest , and our outings were great fun as we were allowed to run more or less wild once we had arrived . |
| 18 | These cottages were once the abodes of the workers in the famous glove-making industry on which the town first prospered , yet it is probably tourism that is the town 's major attraction now . |
| 19 | IF the Swiss were once the masters of miniaturisation , they have surely been overtaken by the Japanese . |
| 20 | Medieval Scottish castles were once the homes of kings , queens and local lairds , but a three year ecological survey , commissioned by the Government agency Historic Scotland and undertaken by Northern Ecological Services , is finding new castle inhabitants . |
| 21 | The Bishop quotes , with approval , G. Bennett on spider webs : It is impossible for one who has watched the work for many hours to have any doubt that neither the present spiders of this species nor their ancestors were ever the architects of the web or that it could conceivably have been produced step by step through random variation ; it would be as absurd to suppose that the intricate and exact proportions of the Parthenon were produced by piling together bits of marble . |
| 22 | Despite the promises of the October manifesto in the spring of 1906 , there were still no guarantees of political freedom . |
| 23 | There were still no signs of flagging or giving up . |
| 24 | THE South African selectors , having dumped their previous three captains , relented slightly by including Peter Kirsten in their final World Cup squad of 14 , but there were still no places for prolific opener Jimmy Cook , 38 , and 42-year-old Clive Rice . |
| 25 | Rank and ABPC were still the powers in the land but , when it came |
| 26 | But for most , persistence and endurance were still the prerequisites of educational advance . |
| 27 | It is futile to judge by modern standards the Abyssinians ' treatment of their prisoners : theirs were still the standards of the Middle Ages . |
| 28 | There were also the dangers of salmonella entering the food chain and the emission of methane , 30 times more damaging than carbon dioxide . |
| 29 | Lear 's letters to Gould in the years after they parted company were long , funny , warm and chatty ; but they were also the letters of a nostalgic and lonely expatriate . |
| 30 | There were also the matters of the recalcitrance of the English baronage , following the condemnation by the pope of Magna Carta on 24 August 1215 , and the recognition of the Emperor Frederick II to be considered . |