Example sentences of "[adj] were [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These houses ( 140 were identified and illustrated ) still stand , but are neglected and decaying and in desperate need of new owners and new uses . |
| 2 | Of these patients , 2 did not use any steroid , 9 were applying formulations classified in the British National Formulary as ‘ mild ’ , 17 were using ‘ moderately potent ’ compounds , 49 were using ‘ potent ’ compounds , and 4 were applying ‘ very potent ’ topical steroids . |
| 3 | Eight per cent of women aged 18 — 49 were cohabiting in 1988 , and over 20 per cent of those had never been married ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 4 | The meagre by the meagre were devoured , |
| 5 | The findings from this were accepted both by Nether Wyresdale PC and Wyre BC as showing that there is a need for affordable housing in the village . |
| 6 | But if this were to happen , only the rich would benefit . |
| 7 | There is no need for such work to be abandoned because it does not feature explicitly in our programmes of study and , indeed , it would be the opposite of our intention if this were to happen . |
| 8 | If this were to happen , the activation of only a proportion of suspended terms would amount to a heavy extra burden on the prisons . |
| 9 | This does not impose an obligation on employers to create jobs that would not otherwise exist , and , indeed , it would be undesirable if this were to happen , for such jobs would not be " real " jobs . |
| 10 | If this were to happen in the case of the CAB , they would have lost their primary purpose as first tier advisory agencies ; there would be duplication of effort , waste of public money and , in all probability , deterioration in the quality of specialised advice provided . ’ |
| 11 | If this were to happen , our other inquiries would be severely prejudiced . |
| 12 | Right , correction , one lady does n't , but those who do go back to the Property Committee and I would say that erm if this were to happen , and the County Council were to make it a permanent site in that particular position , we could lay a charge of gross negligence , or even mis-appropriation of assets . |
| 13 | If this were to inhibit credit expansion it could lead to lower interest rates . |
| 14 | But if there were a sea change , and they became the majority that meat eaters are at present , and if this were fuelled by the arguments of Regan or Singer , then surely it would be reasonable to expect a knock-on effect in the other contentious areas . |
| 15 | On this were arranged thick candles in red glass jars , two vases of dahlias , a small plaster statue of Our Lady . |
| 16 | If this were felt to be a circular situation a formal decision not to ratify could be deemed to negate signature . |
| 17 | The cloisters surrounding this were begun in 1661 although not finished until 1740 by K. I. Dientzenhofer . |
| 18 | Plans for this were made some years ago , but it has not been possible to proceed with them ( a ) because of lack of funds , and ( b ) because the personnel department has overall responsibility in all departments of the authority ’ … |
| 19 | If this were achieved , it would sever the Warsaw-Kiev railway and also give Austria command of the road to Brest-Litovsk , thus threatening all the Russian positions to the east of Warsaw . |
| 20 | The details of this were given in Part 1 . |
| 21 | Powerful public examples of this were seen in photographs taken after the death of the American president J.F. Kennedy who had become a great folk hero to the American people . |
| 22 | Those radicals ( among whom Gaitskell was , oddly , not numbered ) who wanted to abolish the public schools , or amalgamate them somehow into the maintained system , persuaded themselves for a time that if this were done , and if everyone had a chance to take the 11 + and compete for a place at a grammar school , then justice would have been done and educational standards would be secure . |
| 23 | If this were done in the City , the IRA could simply switch their targets to prestigious offices in the provinces . |
| 24 | The Russian frontier , running some 1,450km/900mls from Memel on the Baltic Sea to the Bukovina in northern Romania , was highly vulnerable to a German attack southward from East Prussia , especially if this were matched by an Austrian advance northward from Galicia . |
| 25 | The contradictions within the Labour Party were quite marked ; many supported a boycott of German goods but were unprepared to consider any international action against fascism if this were to create a danger of war . |
| 26 | Jean Glass and Betty Syrett would be prepared to co-ordinate if this were wanted and it would be appreciated if those teaching in London let either Betty or Jean or the office know if they could help . |
| 27 | The gates to this were kept permanently locked but there was a less conspicuous entrance , hardly more than a mud road , amongst the trees a hundred yards along . |
| 28 | Such posts as this were intended for the sons of the well-heeled or at least the well-connected . |
| 29 | The crofter could apply for the ‘ de-crofting ’ of his land , but if this were approved he would no longer be eligible for the many special rights and privileges enjoyed by crofting tenants . |
| 30 | In the west , a woman could only have an abortion if this were approved by a doctor on medical , genetic or psychological grounds . |