Example sentences of "were [det] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arsenal 's breaks were few but always threatening and Oldham , after a first flurry , found openings increasingly elusive . |
| 2 | Passage controls were few and well spaced out , so most crews reached Dover with a fairly uneventful run . |
| 3 | Portholes were few and usually hatched over with leering daemon masks . |
| 4 | By implication , of course , those who chose not to become part of the ‘ generalized other ’ were less than fully developed . |
| 5 | The demands of the workers were more than ever focused upon political change . |
| 6 | This remaining wing was built in about 1640 , a time when local builders were more than ever turning their craft into a conscious art . |
| 7 | I believe that his suspicions in this regard were more than amply fuelled by the activities of Marcia Williams , who also was a great believer in the conspiracy theory . |