Example sentences of "[adj] were [verb] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah , but the district council had caused letter boxed to be melted down and fashioned into stainless steel tree holders , at a great deal too much extra cost , and these were positioned at every dog-relief point so the housewives could be held in suspension at any point in the area and time . |
| 2 | While loss of learning ability among the elderly appeared primarily linked to difficulties in understanding , recall , and error abandonment , if these were corrected at an early stage ‘ old people can learn much more readily than is commonly supposed ’ ( Welford 1966 : 5 ) . |
| 3 | For those who are wondering why I have this set-up , the three were introduced at a small size when I thought them a male and two females ; and I am unwilling to upset a settled pair by unnecessarily removing the decor and setting two with a net ! |
| 4 | All three were initiated at the 1990 Frankfurt Bookfair Seminars where Asian participants pledged themselves to passing on what they had learnt to their colleagues . |
| 5 | Predictably , vicars tended to conform to more modest standards ; indeed , in Norfolk as many as twelve were rated at a mere £2 . |
| 6 | Only the hide-covered penthouse was occupied , and the three men in that were jammed at the opposite end , craning to watch the brilliant theatre ; the exchange at the gates upon which their survival depended . |
| 7 | Therefore an adjective which has the effect of qualifying a property rather than an entity will not occur in ordinary predicative position ( nor in postnominal attributive position ) ; this prediction is confirmed by the unacceptability of sentences such as : ( 11 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere a scoundrel complete must have taken my umbrella the cousins distant were put at a separate table If the adjectives in ( 12 ) are acceptable , reflexion shows at once that they are adjectives with more than one meaning , and the one which appears in predicative position is not that in which they are sense-qualifiers : ( 12 ) their village is distant and hard to reach burning his licence was wholly lawful the set complete is worth 1500 francs |
| 8 | Apart from this consideration , Soviet spokesmen implied that there was little difference between Gailani 's stand and the essence of the Carrington Plan : both were directed at a thorough recomposition of the Marxist DRA government . |