Example sentences of "[adj] were [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons for this were linked to the financial relationship between central and local government . |
| 2 | Exceptions to this were found in the older family where the wife had always been active and continued to work into her 70's , and where a specialised product like cheese was being produced for farm gate sales . |
| 3 | The English were faced by the different physical conditions and social organisation of the countries which they invaded . |
| 4 | Very few were included in the initial lists of historic buildings and as a result a very large number have been demolished . |
| 5 | The French were crushed by the native forces and the Americans were forced to move in to take their place in order to safe-guard their investment , going a little deeper into the quicksand . |
| 6 | False atrocity stories , misguidedly spread to encourage a spirit of resistance , and well-founded rumours that the French were waiting on the far side of the Channel to launch a second invasion added to the prevailing gloom and when , on what the diarist Horace Walpole described as ‘ Black Friday ’ , people in London learned that the Jacobites were already at Derby something approaching panic swept the capital . |
| 7 | Some were based on the pre-war zaibatsu family-run conglomerates , others are centred on a big manufacturer such as Toyota , Nippon Steel or Matsushita . |
| 8 | Measurements of remanent magnetism in a variety of volcanic rocks found on the continents had shown that some were magnetized in the opposite direction to the Earth 's present magnetic field . |
| 9 | Many of the vehicles found their way back to the West , some were delivered to the Middle East and some to the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | The following were listed as the key points in economic construction during the coming decade and the eighth five-year plan period : strengthening agriculture ; strengthening the basic industries and infrastructure and reorganizing and transforming the processing industry ; and strengthening educational , scientific and technological undertakings . |
| 11 | The other Nobel prizes for 1991 were announced by the relevant Swedish academies between Oct. 3 and Oct. 16 : ( i ) Literature — Nadine Gordimer , the South African novelist whose " magnificent epic writing " had as its central theme the consequences of apartheid ; ( ii ) Medicine — Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann , German scientists working on the function of single ion channels in cell physiology ; ( iii ) Economics — Ronald Coase , the veteran UK-born member of the Chicago school and theorist of transaction costs and property rights , relevant to how buyers and sellers are brought together in the free market ; ( iv ) Physics — Pierre-Gilles de Gennes , the French scientist , for his work on applying the study of order and behavioural similarities in molecules to a range of complex materials ; and ( v ) Chemistry — Richard R. Ernst , the Swiss researcher , for contributions to high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance ( NMR ) spectroscopy . |
| 12 | One person died and 26 were injured in the 1985 bombings . |
| 13 | A further six were excluded from the audiometric analysis because of unreliable preoperative audiometric data , leaving 118 in the adenoidectomy group and 73 in the other . |
| 14 | Alas , they failed to make a complete list and about 60 names of the fallen were left off the temporary plaque . |
| 15 | Also , although some of the demands which had been made in 1381 were echoed in the later risings , in none of them was there anything so clear-cut in the way of a social programme as the demands put forward at Mile End and Smithfield . |
| 16 | ‘ The Catholic Church … was unique among the larger religious bodies by the fact that so many of the most devout were drawn from the working-class and even from the poor . ’ |
| 17 | For 1969–83 registrations at age 15–24 were obtained from the Northern Region Cancer Registry and ( for 1969–73 in what is now South Cumbria ) the North Western Regional Cancer Registry ; in general , no further effort was made to ascertain cases . |
| 18 | These were built by the United Electric Car Company of Preston , and were luxurious in comparison with the rest of the fleet , with their basket seats . |
| 19 | Many of these were written under the direct , sometimes very direct , influence of Gastoldi 's balletti , ‘ fa-la ’ refrains and all — ‘ Tantzen und springen ’ , ‘ Unter all'n auf dieser Erden ’ , ‘ All Lust und Freud ’ while others such as ‘ Ihr Musici , frisch auf ’ are masterpieces of the German madrigal . |
| 20 | Pickups are Höfner 's ‘ Super Response ’ double-pole types , with their slightly ‘ art deco ’ look ; these were fitted to the early versions only , and were subsequently changed around 1961 to the DeLuxe versions , which resembled the generic American humbucker … |
| 21 | In generic terms , these were regarded as the operational functions of the College , ie those primarily concerned with delivering the end product . |
| 22 | These were enumerated by the European Court in its judgment in the CILFIT case in the following terms : |
| 23 | These were met by the disciplined , well-trained armies of the Phoenix King , many of whom were veterans of the wars with the Dwarfs . |
| 24 | These were situated on the first floor of the Pavillon de Flore which formed the angle of the Tuileries palace with the Quays and the Seine . |
| 25 | These were averaged for the six subjects and the SEM was calculated . |
| 26 | These were completed in the inter-war years , by which time the Lobito Bay railway in Angola and the Central African railway from Mozambique to Nyasaland were in operation . |
| 27 | Over a quarter of these were handled by the Big Four , who dominated the top end of the market , being responsible for over 50% of searches for the $100 000 + positions . |
| 28 | These were placed in the upper course , tributary valleys where the steep gradients of the rivers made it easy to divert the water for only short distances to allow a sufficient fall to drive the water wheels . |
| 29 | Marriage was obviously not simply a religious union but had profound social consequences and these were recognised in the formal legal changes of the nineteenth century . |
| 30 | These were stated in the 1987 consultation document to be : |