Example sentences of "were [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jeez , how on earth d' ya take a bath and how is your love life ’ were presumably part of the empathy process from Gerry and his audience almost comatose with voyeurism and in need of splints for drop-jaw . |
| 2 | Hoffmann J. took the robust course of solving this problem on the basis that all the relevant facts were properly matters of judicial notice . |
| 3 | For the law applied to smugglers , and they were rarely men of property . |
| 4 | Mr Kerr said the TEC 's private sector board members fell into two categories : some were senior employees of industrial companies with bases on Teesside , while others were effectively owner-managers with large equity stakes in their companies . |
| 5 | Dockers and warehousemen were trying to drown the fire with what were effectively thimble-fulls of water . |
| 6 | The defendants who manufactured similar valves and were effectively competitors of the plaintiff company offered work to the plaintiff 's employees on Sundays . |
| 7 | The ‘ friends ’ were mostly girls at work : she had to have those independently of Ken . |
| 8 | And what they did were mostly bills of the unpaid variety . |
| 9 | The men , who were mostly Sudanis from the south , ignored them but looked uneasy . |
| 10 | In fact it allowed very few off-worlders on to the planet , and they were mostly technicians with special skills — who were required to live restricted lives in special compounds , hardly ever mixing with the local population . |
| 11 | They were mostly men of about 25 . |
| 12 | Erm were most people in those days poor ? |
| 13 | Of course in doing this we were inadvertently upwind of the rabbits then out to feed , and numbers would head for the main wood . |
| 14 | so people were constantly sort of shoving this aside and walking through . |
| 15 | There were constantly laments about ministerial income and the ‘ poverty , indifference [ and ] unappreciated labour ’ of many men . |
| 16 | In fact he and his wife Rosemary were extremely kind to me when they lived in South Yorkshire and later when I stayed with then , in North Yorkshire whilst working in that area . |
| 17 | Kinloss was a pleasant environment and the locals were extremely kind to the alien invasion , but one felt so very much out of the hurly burly of wartime England , this was made particularly clear when pupils I had trained returned for their rest period , and one did get the message that my operational background was no longer valid or right to pass on to the crews coming forward for conversion to twin-engined aircraft . |
| 18 | There were long shifts on the road without a break , and wives used to bring their husband 's lunch out to them on the road . |
| 19 | There were long faces among the British contingent as study of the replay showed Carroll House deviating from a straight line . |
| 20 | However such farmers were necessarily exceptions within a farming community where shortening bush/fallow cycles were retained ; they did not provide a solution to the underlying problem . |
| 21 | They were merely bits of paper . |
| 22 | The boats and their equipment were merely instruments with which to carry out our prime duties of protecting the revenue . |
| 23 | The spots and patches visible on the Moon were merely reflections of the Earth 's imperfect relief in the Moon 's smooth and crystalline surface . |
| 24 | These questions were , to a greater or lesser degree , part and parcel of the armed confrontation , in so far as each side had opposing views on them , but they were merely strands in the overall picture , not the underlying design . |
| 25 | His wrong-headedness resided in his failure to recognize that the attitudes and expenditures of which he made so much fun were merely symbols of achievement , the kind of achievement which has in fact given rise to every civilization and marked stages in the development of each one . |
| 26 | The theme running through Victorian Darwinistic science was that women were merely vehicles for reproduction and were thus nearer nature ( and the lower animals ) than men , but towards the end of the century a more positive view of motherhood emerged , largely as a result of eugenic concern about the quality of the race . |
| 27 | Illnesses did not require names in his scheme of things : they were merely misfortunes to be endured . |
| 28 | These failures , however , were merely symptoms of a larger failing in Soviet society . |
| 29 | All the subsequent writings were merely glosses on an established text . |
| 30 | It was assumed by the NRS that the belted and white-faced patterns were merely varieties of the black pied and red pied breeds , with their unusual patterns fixed by selection . |