Example sentences of "were [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we were , how we were gon na combat it , and in the very next room were or rather holding a conference on how to do us in . |
| 2 | Bradshaw and Millar found that 24 per cent of lone mothers who were or ever had been on income support said they had been , or would be , unwilling to give such information to the DSS . |
| 3 | From mid-May to late June , though , the bats were nor particularly concentrated round the street lights . |
| 4 | They were not creative artists but they were and still remain for the most part arbiters of technique and the niceties of perfect performance . |
| 5 | Welsh Wales , in Wales and in the Lake District they found that the er level of nuclear activity on the surface of , of the field as it were and therefore reached the animals is higher than it has been , how would they manage to do that ? |
| 6 | For the second time in her life , she says , he had appeared out of the blue as it were and too charge . |
| 7 | Some august partnerships , such as Herbert Smith , long disdained the idea of working out what their profitable strengths were and then marketing them hard . |
| 8 | ‘ He saw how unhappy they were and always said when he grew up , he 'd love to take care of children . ’ |
| 9 | This is not to say that a science and technological education had to take on this character , for clearly there were and always have been those who are committed to inspiring in students a love of , and a care for , their subjects in those disciplines . |
| 10 | They and the neighbours were but mildly impressed and Maria clearly disbelieving . |
| 11 | Not only having gone to higher standards of were but also looking to account a motion which has already been passed by the Environment Committee on the fourteenth of September nineteen ninety three and what I was basically saying was that erm incinerator should come to That 's Life that the current E E C proposals on erm that that and I know that 's not a rule but in fact when Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution is actually considering this want to draw their attention to a motion which in some cases were saying that we would expect the highest possible standards if those developments were to go ahead with the . |
| 12 | Anne wondered if Ella knew just how queer they were but only said , ‘ I think it would be better all round if Cormac tried to get a job . |
| 13 | While marriage represented the only means to a livelihood for a majority of middle class women , most of whom were but poorly educated , it was nevertheless not ‘ done ’ for a young woman to solicit male attention . |
| 14 | Equally they were as well placed as anyone to know about the extent of the delays by the emergency services . |
| 15 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 16 | Indeed , if the Canterbury claims were as well founded as Anselm believed , anything less than a general authority over the whole British Isles would have done a violence to the early history of the see as it was understood at Canterbury , and to the large geographical and historical conceptions which lay behind these claims . |
| 17 | Phage buffer , complete LB medium , M9 medium , L-amino acids , vitamin supplements were as previously described [ 3 ] . |
| 18 | Transcription conditions employed were as previously described ( 12 ) . |
| 19 | The techniques of DNA and RNA isolation , Southern and Northern blotting , and cDNA cloning were as previously described ( 24 ) . |