Example sentences of "were [adv] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Golf employed a far larger number of professionals but these men were rarely tournament competitors . |
| 2 | Early oil engines were mostly semi-diesel engines and had to be started by heating the ‘ hot bulb ’ — part of the cylinder head — with a blowlamp . |
| 3 | Council housing rents were subsidized , as were most house prices for owner-occupiers until 1931 , but both were beyond the reach of the unskilled . |
| 4 | If these apply and if , for example , the loans are redeemed using equal annual instalments of principal , then the revenue charge will be exactly the same as if an asset was depreciated using straight-line depreciation and any loan repayments were merely balance sheet transfers . |
| 5 | Well now I , Bull 's Eye Lamps , that we carried at night , they were merely paraffin oil lamps . |
| 6 | Haeckel reconstructed the tree of life to give it a main trunk or stem with the human race at the top : all developments in other directions were merely side branches of little real importance . |
| 7 | Many of the people in our picture were only window shopping and kept a tight hold on their cash , according to disappointed traders . |
| 8 | And indeed it would seem that it was only at about this time , in the Europe of the late-sixteenth century , that a few thoughtful men first began to think seriously about the moral nature of mankind as a whole , as against the older , narrower concept of the moral nature of " ourselves " , God 's chosen people , ranged against " the others " , the barbarians , who were only part men , unnatural monsters , beasts . |
| 9 | How could she compare the task of dusting and polishing the magnificent English furniture to the drudgery of cleaning our house , where there were only tom rags , a broom and a pail of water , and you had to go down on your knees to scrub the floor and do the endless piles of washing by hand ? |
| 10 | When the first elected Emperor was enthroned there were only Elector Counts , but later on other powerful individuals won the right to cast their vote and help decide which count would become Emperor . |
| 11 | Apart from the house there were only pine trees for miles … and that high stone wall … |
| 12 | The direct questions we needed to ask of deaf people could not be asked adequately , since we were only language learners . |
| 13 | And then people started bringing material in : Stan Kentford for instance with You Forgot To Remember and I 'm Left , You 're Right , which were basically country songs . ’ |
| 14 | You see , they were just more or less sort of , I thought they were just sea merchants . |
| 15 | I worked in quite a few departments in the Co-op erm and I was secretary to the education er in those days , whereas Miss member relations er in the , when I was there we were just education department with an educational secretary and erm then , he , we did all the staff training as well . |
| 16 | Where peasants were already working areas larger than the maximum , landowners were allowed to trim their holdings . |
| 17 | When Bonnie Prince Charlie 's ragged army marched into Glasgow there were already steam engines pounding away in the mines , but those early beam engines were as crude as the Young Pretender 's understanding of popular democracy . |
| 18 | This decision was a formal one , since many Christians , including the well-known historian and director of the Museum of Havana , Eusebio Leal Spengler , were already party members . |
| 19 | Both were already war widows — little Anne Raymond , rosy-cheeked , with too-bright eyes , which when glimpsed unwary were full of sorrow . |
| 20 | The first Alpine skiers were regarded as rather eccentric , but the sport gradually took hold where there were already mountain resorts such as Davos in Switzerland . |
| 21 | Masques were usually court entertainments , but Milton 's untypical Comus ( 1634 ) with music by Henry Lawes was performed at Ludlow Castle . |
| 22 | Denominational year books were featuring ‘ Gothic ’ chapels : these were usually brick buildings of traditional rectangular shape but with pinnacles , mullioned windows , buttresses and arches . |
| 23 | The women were usually office cleaners or domestic helps ; sometimes they worked in rather poor neighbourhood shops for low wages , being unable to get work in the better city centre stores like Boots or the British Home Stores , where labour was unionized . |
| 24 | For those citing domestic responsibilities as the most important reason , specific responses were usually childcare demands and being the only wage earner in the family ( which also overlaps with financial difficulties ) . |
| 25 | The club 's planes were usually Tiger Moths in the main , and as I remember the main airport building adjacent to the main road , pre war , were building Swallow side-cars for motorbikes . |
| 26 | Probably the greatest number were always corn mills , those more distant being used to provide a steady income . |
| 27 | They took us a few at a time and there were always prison officers with us . |
| 28 | I did n't really understand what it was all about except that there were always sugar lumps in my pocket for when I did n't feel very well . |
| 29 | So anyway , at Khabarovsk we were eating ice-cream — there were always ice-cream sellers on the platform — and I was taking pictures of David and sneaking pictures of the soldiers who were on the platform with us but , unfortunately , they caught us at it . |
| 30 | There were always cabaret acts novelties and competitions . |