Example sentences of "were [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the third quarter of 1991 there were 5717 company insolvencies in England and Wales . |
| 2 | There were nineteenth century memoirs and occasionally they were quite revealing but it 's Lloyd George 's memoirs of the Great War , the First World War that set in many ways the modern pattern for old battles to be re-fought . |
| 3 | We were respectable Home Counties middle class , but nothing special , nothing to brag about . |
| 4 | When the Fens was mainly marshland , people clustered on the small humps or islands of boulder clay which were dry point sites . |
| 5 | In Australia news of the split came at 3am Sydney time , and soon after talk-back radio shows were inviting comment from night-owl listeners . |
| 6 | I told you there were mini roast potatoes . |
| 7 | There were 525 ETA prisoners serving prison sentences thoughout Spain . |
| 8 | Equally , not all the big Healeys were Alpine Rally competitors or howling club racers , and British as the car was , the majority of the 17,700 or so MkIIIs that completed the series also went to the US , where the sun shone a bit more often . |
| 9 | Even stilled , the great pistons were ample evidence of the power it could unleash , driving it like the mighty wheels of a train . |
| 10 | The bloody attempt to kidnap Princess Anne on the Mall just yards from Buckingham Palace and the successful break-in to the Queen 's bedroom by an unemployed labourer , Michael Fagan were ample proof of the constant danger the royal family faced . |
| 11 | Outside , doing their best to frighten the cat spitless with their howling , were fifty sledge dogs , each chained to a kennel , well separated to stop their most frequent game , that of tearing lumps out of each other . |
| 12 | The Wimbledon Courts seem small and friendly when you 're actually in them , and the finals , though tense tennis were terrific tennis . |
| 13 | JR sent for the latest aged debt report , quickly extracted from it the top 20 customers and found what he now expected to find — that more than 80% ; of the total debts were due form these , although by number they amounted to considerably less than 20% ; of the total customer file . |
| 14 | The lodges and bridge were solid stone and flint classical , the stable early Victorian . |
| 15 | The tyres were solid rubber and the seats hard . |
| 16 | These were solid leather and weighed so much that , not surprisingly , we were allowed only a further 9lb each to include all essentials for the next six days and five nights . |
| 17 | And er when it come to a vote to try and get anything passed or changed the wee branches were solid voting for the national agreement . |
| 18 | The women were seated straight-backed on the edge of two big cane armchairs , and Robert , his back turned , was looking out of a high arched window . |
| 19 | The indications for reservoir surgery were ulcerative colitis in 20 patients and FAP in three . |
| 20 | On Sept. 6 President Fernando Collor de Mello ordered Justice Minister Bernardo Cabral to investigate charges by the human rights organization Amnesty International that death squads , some of them secretly operated by the police , were murdering street children . |
| 21 | Principal trading partners in 1989 were European Community countries and the United States . |
| 22 | Leeds were European Cup Winners ' Cup finalists in 1973 , European Cup finalists in 1975 and won the Old Fairs Cup in 1968 and 1971 . |
| 23 | Last year for the first time there were European dressage titles in two categories : Werth won the conventional Special , while Rothenberger took the freestyle . |
| 24 | I said that I had had rather more than that , and I referred to having had about 800 , the large majority of which were tear-out newspaper slips , and a large majority of those would have been influenced by the leaflet , the Labour party ’ Standard ’ , with its misleading , scaremongering , alarmist nonsense . |
| 25 | There were 1948 tax receipts from the Municipal Corporation of Jaffa and rental agreements for the lease of land to the Royal Air Force . |
| 26 | Doctor and The Crippens were also scheduled to appear , as were Sore Throat , and the guest list seemed likely to be something of a hardcore Who 's Who ? — or at any rate , a hardcore Who 's That ? |
| 27 | SSP is straightforward to operate and is paid by you , the employer , as if it were normal pay . |
| 28 | There was communists , there was I M Ps , there were Labour Party men , and at that time there was a unity campaign . |
| 29 | Most of the women who attended the conference were Labour Party members . |
| 30 | It seems to me that the judgment must be read as a whole , and that paragraphs 19 to 20 , dealing with question 2(b) are completely inconsistent with Mr. Beazley 's construction , seeing that if he were right article 5(3) would become a ‘ catch-all ’ provision , and liability not based on tort , delict or quasi-delict would fall within it , notwithstanding the explicit statement to the contrary in the last two lines of paragraph 19 . |