Example sentences of "[adj] were [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if there were a sea change , and they became the majority that meat eaters are at present , and if this were fuelled by the arguments of Regan or Singer , then surely it would be reasonable to expect a knock-on effect in the other contentious areas . |
| 2 | If this were done in the City , the IRA could simply switch their targets to prestigious offices in the provinces . |
| 3 | Such posts as this were intended for the sons of the well-heeled or at least the well-connected . |
| 4 | The original enquiries about this were directed to the County Surveyor 's Department , but I now understand that the work on the boundary sign was done on behalf of the County Planning Department . |
| 5 | In the mid-1940s , explanations for this were offered in the form of theories which presented anatomical features as the cause of the blacks ' advantages . |
| 6 | Some interesting reasons for this were suggested in The Observer in 1986 . |
| 7 | Children whose first language was not English were excluded from the sample . |
| 8 | His skilful efforts to put the Assembly in the wrong were abetted by the deputies ' seeming determination to alienate the masses from the regime , attempts which culminated in an electoral law of 1850 which disenfranchised some 3,000,000 voters on the basis of a residence qualification . |
| 9 | The apostles and the communities of the faithful were driven by the Spirit , faith and the knowledge of the Risen Lord . |
| 10 | Only four men aged between eighteen and forty-five were described in the returns as farmers . |
| 11 | I am not drawing comparisons here , I am just making the point that 500-plus were lost in the Battle of Britain and nearly 700 were lost at Nuremburg on one raid . |
| 12 | Two people died and 542 were injured in the London terminus accident . |
| 13 | It was not officially ‘ discovered ’ until the 1970s , when a few were brought to the United States . |
| 14 | A number of documents concerning trading contacts between the two countries in 1993 were signed at the meeting . |
| 15 | For the time being at least this was almost exactly how the French were regarded by the Americans in Vietnam : of little or no account and if not exactly in the ‘ out ’ tray at best their position was ‘ pending ’ . |
| 16 | Wilson claimed that at least 30 were promoted by the Shipping Federation alone . |
| 17 | In her research into the effects of divorce on children , Mitchell ( 1985 ) found that some siblings had been divided between the two parents , though some were reunited after the divorce . |
| 18 | The rings were used in a variety of ways : some were worn on the arm or wrist ; others appear to be the frames for the mouths of pouches which are often found to contain small metal items ; a third use was as a girdle hanger . |
| 19 | For example , some were moved to the edges of the older urban cores as a result of the construction of peripheral public-housing schemes in the 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 20 | Subsequently , while the total number of 110mph trains was retained some were withdrawn from the Glasgow service in favour of key Manchester and Liverpool business trains . |
| 21 | Even big tough men have teddies hidden away somewhere , and some were brought into the open at the Didcot Railway Centre Teddy Bears Picnic . |
| 22 | Some were buried with the Pharaoh Tutankhamun ( about 1350 BC ) . |
| 23 | No I think just dedication and we , if we made an appearance maybe something would come to a head , things would get sorted , if we just said forget it then stay at home , then the quarry managers would say right forget it , we 'll get another workforce in , you know it was , I think it was just I think some were dedicated to the job and sort of gave it their best , whereas others were slightly you know , willy nilly about it and well I 'll turn up today cos it the weather looks nice , or I 'll turn up today because the wife is n't off and or the gas has run out or whatever . |
| 24 | All the spectacular demonstrations of the unemployed were organized by the NUWM , including the Hunger Marches of 1932 , 1934 , and 1936 . |
| 25 | At the very moment that the weak and young and old were brought from the Sprinkleroom to the railway station , as good as new , so their menfolk completed the appointed term of labour service and ventured forth to claim them , on the ramp , a trifle dishevelled to be sure , but strong and sleek from their regime of hard work and strict diet . |
| 26 | Of 64 men with NGU , half were infected with the bacterium ; compared with one out of seven men with gonococcal urethritis and four out of 30 controls . |
| 27 | He thought the British were angered by the extent to which the Shah had criticized British sloth in recent years . |
| 28 | The British were squeezed by the tax-man until the pips squeaked — Aneurin Bevan 's phrase . |
| 29 | The Punjab had stood firm in 1857 ; the emirs of Northern Nigeria , it was noted with pride , stood firm in 1914 , when the British were forced by the outbreak of war with Germany to denude the area of troops . |
| 30 | By the 1970s , hundreds were employed in the manufacture of articles from a variety of polymeric materials . |