Example sentences of "were [adv] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chester traincrew concerned were duly relieved about 11.15 am and hitched a lift onto the LM shed from the station . |
| 2 | But when Bob Cliff placed a numerous replica owls on the roof the noisy birds were successfully frightened away . |
| 3 | It were right funny though . |
| 4 | erm those of you who had mothers who were young in the twenties will probably recall seeing them because they were rather tubular almost like a rubber tube , with small holes punched in for circulation . |
| 5 | Its cover was black and the plastic envelopes inside were rather smaller so that each page was displayed edged with black like a mourning card . |
| 6 | Yeah , what I like about , what I liked about them was that they were dead flat like , you know if you , imagine it a sweet the weight for a sweet were from say ten ounces to twenty kilos |
| 7 | PLAYER : Yes , we were dead lucky there . |
| 8 | The church visitors were intensely embarrassed shortly after we had agreed to have door-to-door visitation for a forthcoming town mission . |
| 9 | The average adult body contains about 6 litres of blood and if all the innumerable blood vessels were widely open simultaneously , there would be insufficient blood to fill them . |
| 10 | Scottish kings were rarely powerful enough , or could muster an army large and united enough to keep permanent guard along the frontier against major English invasions . |
| 11 | The reasons people gave for not using the form of credit ( very few were actually refused it , by lenders ) were rarely concerned specifically with cost — they were generally things like ‘ changed my mind ’ or ‘ thought of a better method ’ . |
| 12 | Pomponianus and his companions were badly worried both by the ash-fall , and by the frequent tremors which were now shaking the house . |
| 13 | These duties were also listed by the assistants as the ones which they felt were most helpful both to the child and the teacher and were also the ones which they enjoyed most and felt most competent in completing . |
| 14 | As you know , we were most disappointed not to have been invited to give our views on the above consultation paper earlier this year . |
| 15 | There were also several heads which were most attractive especially those of children . |
| 16 | Three names were remarkably absent i.e. Strachan ( a bit absent ) Deane ( a bit more absent ) & Hodge ( quite a lot absent ) . |
| 17 | The contour lines on the map were remarkably close together for the final descent but we decided it could n't be as bad as it looked . |
| 18 | But erm they were you know they were exceedingly kind really . |
| 19 | Even the Darwinian theory of evolution was impressive , not because the concept of evolution was new — it had been familiar for decades — but because it provided for the first time a satisfactory explanatory model for the origin of species , and did so in terms which were entirely familiar even to non-scientists , since they echoed the most familiar concept of the liberal economy , competition . |
| 20 | I do n't think my parents were entirely happy together . |
| 21 | Those incredible eyes were extremely prominent too in the bright sunlight . |
| 22 | Zuwaya men , for instance were extremely careful not to touch the marriageable daughters of their kin , friends and neighbours . |
| 23 | how we were back to our best and they were extremely lucky not to get a good hiding . |
| 24 | ‘ Villa totally outclassed us in the first half and we were extremely lucky only to be a goal down . |
| 25 | The people doing the latter were extremely excited yet also very apprehensive . |
| 26 | These were highly controversial so far as the implementation of the Regulation is concerned , with the British Department of National Heritage fearing an increase by 250,000 in export documents required by the antiquities trade , as all archaeological goods , even of no value , are required to have export papers . |
| 27 | In a survey of dreams reported by university students , they found that dream images which were highly vivid also tended to be " surprising " , and at the centre of the visual field . |
| 28 | The experiments were repeated many times with similar results which were highly significant statistically . |
| 29 | He was dryly informed that conditions were much worse farther up . |
| 30 | Things were much easier then but th all these running boards were , were interpreted , if that 's the right word , on the master scheduling . |