Example sentences of "[adj] were [adj] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , given the level of activity within the Six at this time and the patent way in which Britain 's Grand Design seemed to go against everything they were working for , it is surprising that the Six were willing to discuss the scheme in the first place . |
| 2 | In the meantime , news of the vote needed explaining to a specially convened bondholders ' meeting on May 16th when 19 of their total number of 47 were present to hear the Report explained . |
| 3 | The construction of this block comprised a ground-storey brickwork plinth , perforated with a handful of windows where these were necessary to light the interior , surmounted by a timber-framed and boarded upper-storey structure , a third ‘ attic ’ storey being accommodated largely in the void formed by the steep-sided pitched roof . |
| 4 | Fox in 1792 and Romilly in 1806 were prepared to take the risk . |
| 5 | All were concerned to establish the possibility of discontinuity in a history , as Althusser described it , no longer ‘ steeped in the ideology of the philosophy of the Enlightenment , i.e. in a teleological and therefore idealist rationalism ’ . |
| 6 | The American bishops in particular were eager to have the issue debated , and petitioned the pope . |
| 7 | But most were happy to use the well , taking a share of the 700 gallons of water raised daily from it . |
| 8 | Both were essential to ensure the stability of the regime . |