Example sentences of "were [pron] of the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I told 'em — -them — you were nothing of the kind . |
2 | The Report criticised the crew of the Croydon for not doing more to rectify the compass problems which they had experienced and for relying too heavily on D/F bearings , but it implied that the Darwin W/T station should not have stated the bearings of ‘ night error ’ , they should have known they were nothing of the sort . |
3 | On these walls were none of the usual posters bidding young mothers to drink milk in pregnancy and bring their toddlers for a twice-yearly check-up . |
4 | Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution . |
5 | Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite . |
6 | The permanent staff was gradually purged to other camps until there were none of the original ‘ old people ’ left . |
7 | There were none of the crowds that had been there during the day and we could really pray . |
8 | Moreover , the papers were run as political ventures ; there were none of the commercial , management , planning and sales activities that were to be found at the Standard . |
9 | There were none of the demonstrations or obstructions which he had feared , and in fact such was the success of the play that he was featured on the cover of Time magazine on 6 March . |
10 | This was another of those naked spaces , so exposed it was useless — putting a chair out there to sit in the sun seemed unthinkable , there were none of the nooks and crannies or spaces that invited use . |
11 | There were none of the battered paperbacks usually left abandoned after rainy afternoons in holiday houses , no near pornography and , she thought , no detective stories , until she remembered the Sherlock Holmes collection beside the bed . |
12 | Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay . |
13 | Er there were none of the incubators and this sort of thing for them like we 've got today . |
14 | There were none of the comforts we take for granted now . |
15 | We doggedly persevered in our pursuit of consumer acceptance , so convinced were we of the superiority of our product , but , as always , ultimately the customer is king , and our product was rejected and has joined the ranks of many other good ideas whose time may come one day , but certainly is not with us now . |
16 | Other signalmen had similar stories to tell and some refused to work the box , so frightened were they of the strange events . |
17 | They would lie like flatfish to protect each other from parental awareness , and so certain were they of the rightness of their cause — which was , in many cases , the pursuit of uninterrupted idleness and pleasure — that no one could disbelieve them . |
18 | Many of the prehistoric and early historic sites protected by the 1882 act — earthworks , hill-forts , megaliths , and burial mounds — were our of the mainstream of archaeological interest , which was concentrated on more recent and more artistic relics . |