Example sentences of "were [adv] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | This in itself was unusual , as the high-ranking patrons would have been expected to display classical scenes in their houses , leading to the supposition that these intimate portraits of courtesans were most probably on view only in the private apartments . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nimble , quick-witted , playful , pugnacious , slimline , devious , wild at heart , Flanagan 's hares were much more in tune with the dashing entrepreneurial spirit of the Eighties than Henry Moore 's corpulent corporate monoliths , which were the accepted sculptural logos of the Fifties and Sixties . |
| 7 | In the past , human beings lived closer to , and were much more in touch with , nature . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps we were better off with silence . ’ |
| 9 | It was a distressing part of his duty to have to tell people things they were better off without hearing . |
| 10 | Substantial parts of the urban population were better off in material terms and there had been changes in attitudes . |
| 11 | They had checked similar seats that had been subjected to the rough and tumble of Metropolitan Police life , and ones that had supported over 70,000 miles , and they were all right as rain . |
| 12 | I turned round and it were all right at back of my jeans ! |
| 13 | The teachers did n't seem to care about your academic work as long as you were all right in sport . |
| 14 | Nevertheless Turkey and Persia were swiftly back in disagreement . |
| 15 | They were only just in time . |
| 16 | They were only just in time , for a minute or two later a procession appeared at the top of the hill and began to make its way slowly down . |
| 17 | In winter the small heaters were only on at night and the runs were open to the weather all day . |
| 18 | But 50 years is just a fleeting instant , and it would be a major coincidence if another civilization were so closely in step with us . |
| 19 | He referred to Inwood , whose name was to be kept alive at the new hospital , and which had been likened to a ‘ five star hotel ’ , and where patients had particular cause to be grateful to the town 's GP 's who were so conveniently on hand at the Health Centre . |
| 20 | What would our gates be like if our matches were so far from home ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | However , by early Tudor times this had changed , and strangers , though still a substantial element , were generally less in evidence than in rural parts , while natives show few signs of having flocked in to replace them . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Once across , they turned and waved , then were soon out of sight beyond the belvedere . |
| 26 | Italian maritime aircraft were soon out in force searching for the British Fleet , but not until after midday was it at last spotted . |
| 27 | But Wimbledon were soon back in business four minutes after the break . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He led young engineers who were just out of school to perform engineering ‘ miracles ’ — record-time achievements that no one predicted . |
| 30 | 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 |