Example sentences of "[adj] were [verb] for [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Execution warrants for March 7 were issued for two prisoners on death row , despite international calls for clemency . |
| 2 | Those made redundant were to wait for 26 weeks before being entitled to unemployment benefit . |
| 3 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 4 | TOP Northern jockey Kevin Darley and apprentice Jason Weaver incurred the wrath of the stewards at Newcastle yesterday and both were suspended for 10 days ( November 11-20 inclusive ) after being found guilty of causing ‘ intentional interference ’ . |
| 5 | Both were suspended for 18 months . |