Example sentences of "[noun] were [adj] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also throughout this period some members of the House of Commons , though their numbers steadily decreased , owed their election to the influence which the Treasury and Admiralty were able to exert over certain constituencies . |
| 2 | ‘ Martin Edwards then called and suggested that his club were prepared to go very high for Hirst and that other players could be involved if we were interested . |
| 3 | IN the final matches of this year 's Five Nations rugby championship , the Welsh are in Paris tomorrow , where Scotland were unlucky to lose early this year . |
| 4 | The meeting also approved changes to voting arrangements , abolishing certain procedures first employed in 1988 party elections [ see p. 36137 ] , including the controversial queue-voting system ( whereby voters in primary elections queued publicly behind a picture of their preferred candidate ) and the rule under which candidates obtaining 70 per cent of the votes in such primaries were entitled to go forward unopposed . |
| 5 | Gavin Hastings , Iain Morrison , Derek Turnbull and Ian Corcoran were all reported fully fit . |
| 6 | It is clear that one of the reasons why the companies were prepared to invest so much in the provision of housing for their workmen was because they could influence employees living in company houses at the pit gates far more effectively than those living in a more mixed community several miles from their place of work . |
| 7 | Nearly one-sixth of authorities mentioned that the development of training packages , to be used in-house , and preferably developed by themselves , was needed to expand their training , indicating their belief that this was where expansion would need to come from , and that such training packages were likely to achieve more effective training because they would be tailor made . |
| 8 | In the study of middle-class families , Firth , Hubert and Forge were able to find only small numbers of such cases , and then the conflict tended to be expressed as private resentment rather than open hostility ( pp. 373–8 ) . |
| 9 | The first guests were due to arrive around eight , which actually meant that they would begin arriving anytime after nine . |
| 10 | As a result of Kaszubian naivety Polish land-dealers and banks were able to buy up 35,000 acres of Kaszubian-owned land in the years 1896–1905 . |
| 11 | Civil servants were keen to discern how widespread public support was for the new measures , though they were aware , as they euphemistically put it , that there would be ‘ cause for complaint ’ with the government if the bill were blocked . |
| 12 | Quotes of £37 17s 8d. for the bike shed and £145 15s 0d. for a veranda extension were both thought too expensive , but as the bike shed was Minuted as being urgently needed , the next meeting ( three months later ) appointed a sub-committee to consider it with the constraint not to spend more than £15 ! |
| 13 | Already the local people were disposed to make over various small sums for the use of the Schoolmaster . |
| 14 | Help with feeding in the hospital had been poor , mainly because , says Kim , the staff were hard-pressed to give even basic care , let alone the sort of unhurried support often needed to get breastfeeding going . |
| 15 | The captain and the chief and second mates received cargo allotments of value , but officers of junior rank were unlikely to make very substantial profits , even if they were not forced to share their allocation of cargo space with the commander in order to obtain a place at all . |
| 16 | However , the governors were unwilling to leave out any of the head 's recommendations and they decided to treat them all as priorities . |
| 17 | Their employers were quick to stoke up popular envy through the press if players even temporarily forgot their good fortune . |
| 18 | The products were supposed to speed up blood-flow to make people feel more alert . |
| 19 | Some Saudis were shocked to find how small their army was . |
| 20 | Moreover , in some classrooms where teachers asked many questions , their pupils were able to ask relatively few , and having done so they might risk having their questions blocked or marginalized . |
| 21 | This meant that before 1985 societies were able to offer highly competitive interest rates to the typical saver who was liable to income tax . |
| 22 | Only three of the housing departments that provided information were able to state how many households on their waiting or transfer list required wheelchair or mobility adapted housing , and only two of these were able to break this information down by bedroom size . |
| 23 | Last year CAUSE were able to assist nearly 100 families thanks to your generosity . |
| 24 | Jeremy , 30 , and Ruth Leech were due to marry earlier this month but the love-match was called off because Jeremy had to play a tournament in the States . |
| 25 | He describes his own ( very Darwinian ! ) experiment in which he allowed the stolons of Saxifraga sarmentosa ( a classic ‘ guerrilla ’ growth form ) to encounter an artificial vegetation that he had constructed : ‘ Many long pins were next driven rather close together into the sand , so as to form a crowd in front of … two thin lateral branches ; but these easily wound their way through the crowd . |
| 26 | Both of these systems were able to understand relatively unconstrained language for these very narrow domains . |
| 27 | Prior to Feakle , army battalions were able to spend only five months outside Northern Ireland between tours of duty . |
| 28 | And done it well , no smears or skimped corners , and the papers were all bundled up ready for the dustbins , which would soon be full again . |
| 29 | Working with a video camera capable of converting an image into digital form , a computer and a specially designed software programme , the trio were able to create photographically convincing composite portraits . |
| 30 | Some patients in the Special Hospitals could be moved directly to ordinary NHS units if local services were prepared to bear even minimal risks . |