Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The staff were used to the rigours of war … |
| 2 | He ruled that damages were due for the effects of surfactants but not for a small presence of phosphates . |
| 3 | They had reason to hate the Turks , who had driven them from their homes ; they were grateful for the grants of land which enabled them to settle down in their new homes , and they owed no allegiance to the Croatian and Hungarian nobles . |
| 4 | Both to armchair academics , and , though museum displays , to the population as a whole , objects were representative of the peoples of distant cultures . |
| 5 | The chair was , however , under the control of the archbishop of Canterbury , Tillotson , and the bishop of Worcester , Stillingfleet , both of whom were alive to the dangers of unbridled scientific speculation . |
| 6 | All thoughtful Victorians were alive to the implications of industrialism . |
| 7 | Not that they were unmindful of the dangers of a diluted and ‘ revised ’ version of Marxism which so preoccupied Lenin . |
| 8 | Subordinate males , on the other hand , were friendlier towards the infants of high-ranking females , perhaps because their own rank might increase if they managed to associate themselves with such females . |
| 9 | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , sociologists and anthropologists , including Émile Durkheim , were interested in the reports of travellers and missionaries who had been to parts of Australasia . |
| 10 | Neither Charles Booth nor Seebohm Rowntree were sociologists ; they were just wealthy men with strong social consciences who were interested in the problems of poverty and were able enough to carry out quite sophisticated studies of this phenomenon in London and York at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | The court stressed the mutuality of the partnership contract by which the restriction was applied to all partners who together were interested in the profits of the firm as a single practice . |
| 12 | Till the Union made them acquainted with English manners , the culture of their lands was unskilful , and their domestic life unformed ; their tables were coarse as the feasts of Eskimeaux , and their houses as filthy as the cottages of Hottentots . ’ |
| 13 | Once again , however , defensiveness won the day and when the Strathclyde Centre circulated forces asking them to co-operate in the venture , a decision was taken to withhold co-operation and a circular went round to this effect , suggesting the existing Home Office funded PRSU ( Police Research Services Unit ) and the Home Office Research and Planning Unit were adequate for the needs of the service . |
| 14 | And the forty-three forces in England and Wales now contain some formidable units , amalgamated out of the small borough , city , and county forces of the pre-1960s , many of which were prone to the whims of corrupt local politicians ( Simey 1988 ) . |
| 15 | were some of the directors of P L C also directors of developments ? |
| 16 | In general Keynesians recognized that changes in W could occur from time to time , but the factors influencing these changes were extrinsic to the equations of the income-expenditure model . |
| 17 | Of course another result of the withholding of the statements was that the trial judge and in their turn the Court of Appeal were ignorant of the contents of the statements and of the very existence of the May addendum . |
| 18 | These alliances were similar to the games of dice much favoured at the time : the marriages might or might not be successful ; they might or might not have political consequences . |
| 19 | These findings were similar to the results of an earlier retrospective study by the same research team of forty-eight families who had a child ( aged five to eight years ) admitted into residential care ( Quinton and Rutter , 1984a ; 1984b ) . |
| 20 | Both Josephine Butler , who was happily married and a strong feminist , and Florence Nightingale , who decided to reject middle class family life entirely and was scornful of feminism , were convinced of the possibilities of women 's spiritual leadership . |
| 21 | Neither the writers of that period nor their audience were unaware of the rewards of madness as a subject . |
| 22 | In many instances social workers picked up practical points such as those mentioned above , and dealt with them immediately : arrangements were hastily made to provide counselling for those young people who were unaware of the dangers of AIDS and the importance of using contraceptives . |
| 23 | At the same time , researchers who were unaware of the results of the lead tests interviewed the mothers , gave them intelligence tests and looked for social factors that might be affecting their children . |
| 24 | The consequences of unrestricted outward growth of cities were stark to the observers of the late 1930s . |
| 25 | The decline of liberal institutions and the use of bureaucratic authoritarianism were consistent with the interests of German industry . |
| 26 | In a Commons statement on Nov. 30 , 1989 , Nicholas Ridley , the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , said that the government took the view that the concessions were consistent with the terms of EC approval and that these arrangements were the least which were necessary to secure the successful transfer of the Rover Group to the private sector . |
| 27 | For the rest , standards of literacy were offered which were appropriate to the needs of an industrial workforce . |
| 28 | In 1962 the terms of the Net Book Agreement were upheld following examination in the Restrictive Practices Court , and it was agreed that books were exempt from the terms of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act of 1956 . |
| 29 | Purists had of course drawn on medical and evolutionary concepts , but always with the proviso that they were subordinate to the dictates of a higher morality . |
| 30 | Although well acquainted with rejection notices , we were unprepared for the criticisms of this paper . |