Example sentences of "[adj] were [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Baddam indicates , the French were translating the Philosophical Transactions simultaneously ( de Brémond , and then Demours , for the 1731–40 period ) . |
| 2 | The French were preparing a great attack on the heights of the Aisne for the end of the month , and so it was , he claimed , essential to keep the Germans occupied in Flanders . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the French were mounting a major attack on Boulogne . |
| 4 | The French were to win the final set by a combination of factors . |
| 5 | This time the flood tide of ‘ forward and backward Cs in which the French so much delight ’ was flowing inexplicably at a time when we and the French were fighting the Seven Years War and French fashions , like French bottle makers and garlic , were desperately unpopular . |
| 6 | Some were allowed a relative degree of freedom , but others , like the Dutch East Indies , were kept under direct military rule , largely due to the importance of their natural resources . |
| 7 | Seven of the 26 subjects known to have non-insulin dependent diabetes were receiving insulin , 13 were taking sulphonylureas , and six were taking a specific diet . |
| 8 | With the installation of the new organ , the Headmaster took the opportunity to introduce monthly non-denominational services in the Hallam Hall , and these were to become a regular feature of School life for many years . |
| 9 | During his rapid exit from the balloon carriage Sadler had lost both his signal flags , but these were found the next day in a field near Burton Pedwardine by Mr Edward Robinson , together with Sadler 's hat , cushion and , understandably , his broken thermometer ! |
| 10 | Of seminal significance , one quarter of these were to provide a new tenure group for British housing : the local authority council house . |
| 11 | Probably the incident to receive the greatest publicity , at least in Britain , involved the shooting-up of two British Warrior armoured personnel carriers by an American A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft while all three were pursuing the retreating Iraqis , resulting in nine British infantrymen being killed . |
| 12 | All three were fined a total equivalent to US$25,000 million in compensation damages to the state and were to be held in solitary confinement at the naval base on San Lorenzo , an island off the port of Callao near the capital , Lima , where they had been tried . |
| 13 | The other church leaders were released after several hours in custody , although three were re-arrested the following day . |
| 14 | The bar room was warm and inviting as always , and just enough people to be comfortable were enjoying the cosy environment . |
| 15 | All were given a 20p-off coupon to buy round teabags , and members of three panels also received free samples , of four , eight and 16 teabags respectively . |
| 16 | After initial instruction , familiarisation and a detailed briefing , all were given a mock simulator practice . |
| 17 | All were to have a profound influence on British landscape painting . |
| 18 | The Which ? survey found many were providing a limited holiday-selection and biased information , thanks to a virtual stranglehold by the major tour operators . |
| 19 | The Which ? survey found many were providing a limited holiday-selection and biased information , thanks to a virtual stranglehold by the major tour operators . |
| 20 | While training schoolchildren to deal with threatening situations , they found many were making the wrong decisions . |
| 21 | Many were following the old General ( later Combined ) Degree which allowed them to study three subjects for finals . |
| 22 | We shall discuss the reasons in more detail shortly , but in essence there were two : first , many more were adopting a reservation sales strategy ( no sales at all on 235 occasions , total sales on 341 occasions , and some non-zero/non-unit proportion on just 96 occasions , out of a grand total of 672 occasions , excluding the final period ) ; second , many were adopting a declining output strategy , in broad agreement with the optimal strategy . |
| 23 | First-timers in their millions were backing the saxophone-playing candidate from the baby-boom years they could identify with . |
| 24 | Thus the Kandyan Sinhalese were denied a full share of the renewed prosperity . |
| 25 | The only group claiming responsibility was the hitherto unknown " Mohammed El Boukhima " , and about 15 people detained for questioning in the Albi area on May 23 were freed the same day . |
| 26 | The hardships in the countryside in the 1930s were given an added bitterness by official rhetoric on the virtues of rural life . |
| 27 | At one end of the Square , presided over by the statue of Beethoven , a group of Vietnamese were staging an anti-communist demonstration complete with public address system . |
| 28 | Organisers of the French Open were dealt a double blow by the news that Wimbledon champion Andre Agassi has also pulled out due to a wrist injury . |
| 29 | Two were unrolling a 30-foot banner which read ‘ It takes 53 dumb animals to make this coat but only one to wear it . ’ |
| 30 | Around 1.7 million of these were looking after someone in the same household ; 1.4 million were providing help or supervision for at least twenty hours a week ; and 3.7 million were carrying the main responsibility for providing that help ( Green , 1988 ) . |