Example sentences of "were [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marion Howells and her daughter Kayleigh were asleep just a few feet from a window which was shattered by the blasts . |
| 2 | Ironically perhaps , supplies of some semiconductors which were popular only a few years ago seem to have completely dried up , whereas most valves of around 50 years ago are still available . |
| 3 | The atrocities against people referred to in the letter were horrific yet the point you used to ‘ highlight ’ them was ‘ what man would want women or girls that had been raped ? ’ |
| 4 | The way it was done , with absolutely no warning , was traumatic for the staff and startling for its subscribers , of whom there were well over a million . |
| 5 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 6 | LEFT Home computers were unheard-of only a couple of decades ago ; now they have become routine magic' . |
| 7 | ‘ I was in agony earlier in the week ; my eyes were stuck together every morning ! |
| 8 | If this were true then the fact of having to report the indicators may encourage managers to achieve their targets . |