Example sentences of "[noun] were [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of her gentleman clients were foreign and even the odd Arab prince had come to her office . |
| 2 | The discussions at the end of each lecture were animated and sometimes a little heated , for Hindu students , Muslims and Buddhists were a little critical at having to attend any Christian lecture and were very emphatic that they much preferred their own religion to that of Christianity . |
| 3 | Environmental concern mushroomed during the 1960s and was stimulated by warnings about the impact of human activity and by debates about the extent to which earth resources were finite and therefore the basis for a pessimistic or optimistic future for spaceship earth . |
| 4 | Originally the horns were lyre-shaped and traditionally the animals were horn-tethered . |
| 5 | The dangers were clear and ultimately no one benefited , least of all the students . |
| 6 | On the whole the roads were good and also the Inns — the latter however are extravagantly high in their charges . |
| 7 | Her movements as she set the inverted cups upright on their saucers and manipulated milk jug , teapot and hot water jug were precise and just a little fussy . |
| 8 | Three subsequent balloon dilations were unsuccessful and finally the patient was referred to our institution . |
| 9 | However , the skills required to build such systems were rare and also the required combinations of software and computer hardware were expensive . |
| 10 | Benefits were low because only a minute proportion of copulations result in a reared cub in the next generation ( Journal of Zoology , vol 177 , p 463 ) . |