Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj] [prep] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Optics provides a superb locus for examining the art-science relationship since optical problems , theories and constructions were integral to both science and art . |
| 2 | Paris-based computer services and distribution group Metrologie International SA said it had an operating loss in the first quarter of 1993 due to a drop in activity and pressures to reduce gross margins : the loss was equivalent to about $3.6m and turnover on a like-for-like basis fell 15.9% to $73.5m . |
| 3 | The railway industry was huge in both size and geographical extent . |
| 4 | Cousins was eighth in both figures and original programme , with Martin last in each . |
| 5 | ‘ We learned so much about the suppliers and how they could help us or not that the results were n't so important ’ , said Hubbard , who claimed that the process was beneficial to both supplier and customer , taking some of the guesswork out of sizing and selecting the final systems . |
| 6 | Many of these people were conservative by either party or inclination — or both . |
| 7 | When PLR was introduced in 1981 , loans were constant at around 650m . |
| 8 | For clinicians without access to bone densitometry , these results are helpful in showing that the improvement with HRT was similar in both Crohn 's disease and ulcerative colitis ; in addition , the response to oestrogens was not related to the patients age or the number of postmenopausal years . |
| 9 | In reality , the story of Lebanon was one of both implosion and explosion , of internal conflict and external pressure , but its tragedy — its history — was one of constantly invading armies , negotiating , cajoling , intimidating , storming their way into Beirut . |
| 10 | However Dateline was right about both compatibility and chemistry , and Barry and Jean married earlier this year . |
| 11 | After American troops joined the Allied occupation of Iran , he observed that American policies were independent of both Britain and Russia and so he appealed to President Roosevelt for help . |
| 12 | Three of the six lymph nodes affected by sarcoid and four out of nine of the lung specimens affected by sarcoid were positive for both M tuberculosis complex specific DNA and the sequence from the 65 kilodalton gene . |
| 13 | Neither the salts nor the drug were illegal in either Scotland or England and Johnson , along with other team-mates , had taken them as part of their pre-match rituals on many occasions . |
| 14 | In all , some 8,000 to 10,000 peasants were involved in both Slovenia and Croatia . |
| 15 | As was expected , scores were higher for both aids and amenities in the middle-class group ( 8.0 and 3.8 as opposed to 7.0 and 2.4 in the working-class group ) . |
| 16 | Along with Johanson , White maintains that A afarensis was common to both Homo and the Australopithecus line that died out some 1–5 million years ago . |
| 17 | Munich dealer Bruce Levie sold four Menzel drawings , and French drawings were well-featured by both Neil Fiertag and Nicholas Joly/Yves Mikaeloff , the latter offering perhaps the widest range , from an unusually fine Guiseppe Passeri pen-and-red chalk ‘ Standing Soldier ’ to two Art Deco designs for silver covered dishes by the French designers Sue et Mare , bought by the Cooper Union Museum , New York . |
| 18 | Dositej was minister of education in Karadjordje 's administration and Vuk was involved with both Karadjordje and Miloš . |
| 19 | Inheritance was the normal form in which individual rights over land ( or other resources , such as water ) were obtained : sale of land was unknown in both Polynesia and Micronesia , and in most parts of Melanesia too . |
| 20 | Conservative treatment with long term cyclophosphamide was effective in both stage I and stage IV disease , and all the patents are alive after a median follow up of 4.5 years . |
| 21 | After Kingman there was a growing consensus that some kind of explicit knowledge about language was necessary for both teachers and pupils . |
| 22 | In a house facing there and her son was one of then Caernarfon er what do you call them er militia like and they had to go talking with me and a little One of the first little motor cars like this . |