Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main reasons for the changes were economic and the increasing redundancy of certain features like hedgerows . |
| 2 | He was a yuppie decades before the word was invented , and his stated objects in life were self-promotion and a settled life . |
| 3 | The stewards were satisfied that both were accidental and the prized trophy was on its way back to Buckingham Palace on the eve of Royal Ascot . |
| 4 | In Spain , conditions have been extremely difficult with the beer market in significant decline due to economic circumstances ; as a result volumes overall were lower than the previous year . |
| 5 | Urban amenities available to workers — transport , education , health and leisure facilities — were derisory and the overcrowded housing conditions of the major cities were sordid and degrading . |
| 6 | This gave the sociology of knowledge a specific task in studying the sociological features on which systems of knowledge were dependent but the critical edge and the proposition of relationism had disappeared . |
| 7 | The stagnation would have been much worse had the banks , with whom the sheiks deposited their unspent dollars , not quickly recycled them to governments and enterprises in developing countries where rates of return on invested capital were high and the potential growth seemed relatively high , at least initially . |
| 8 | Half the doors , tables , beds and chairs were wooden and the other half metal . |
| 9 | Bevin and Dalton agreed with Attlee 's views , although at this late stage they were doubtful whether the National Executive would agree . |
| 10 | Shopkeepers there were staggered when a particular brand of noodles sold out within days — until they discovered its high score in the barcode points stakes . |
| 11 | However much they may have disliked such labels they were unavoidable as the dramatic jump in their lifestyle was to have an equally powerful , and highly visible , effect on the company . |
| 12 | Planning as a local authority responsibility has its origins in the public health and housing policies of the nineteenth century , but from the outset the objectives were broader than a simple emphasis on the efficient use of land . |
| 13 | Price rises were similar whether the illegal trade was detected by a stock exchange — which looks out for unusually large price jumps — or by tip-offs from jilted mistresses and the like , who probably do not . |
| 14 | They were convinced that the Catholic Church needed a credible account of how God 's word acts in history , from the first formulation in human language through the gradual process of understanding , under changing historical conditions and as the Holy Spirit gives new insights . |
| 15 | In any case nobody wanted to reverse the process ; tobacco had been a pleasant commercial curtain-raiser but by the second half of the seventeenth century people in England were convinced that the real attraction of possessions overseas lay in the sugar islands . |
| 16 | The idea shocked many people who were convinced that the only cause must be genetic , or chemical , or a virus , something they could put under a microscope . |
| 17 | Marx and Engels were convinced that the capitalist mode of production , even without ruling class policy , systematically engenders false perceptions amongst the individuals within specific class locations . |
| 18 | Others , particularly socialists , were convinced that the downward trend in population growth was not , in itself , a problem since the key to the future prosperity of Britain was to be found in the redistribution of income to ensure that all enjoyed an income sufficient to enjoy healthy life . |
| 19 | When Victorian naturalists first studied the African elephant in the field they were convinced that the dominant member of the herd must be the oldest bull . |
| 20 | The Left claimed that the government and police were prejudiced in favour of Mosley , and were convinced that the National Government was favourable to fascism . |
| 21 | And within the vertebrates , the fish were the ‘ lowest ’ class and the mammals the ‘ highest ’ — since we ourselves are mammals and the Victorians were convinced that the human race was the pinnacle of creation . |
| 22 | CARE workers at a children 's home were unaware that a 15-year-old girl in their charge was going out to work as a prostitute . |
| 23 | However , the Interim Technical Report on the Piper Alpha explosion , published last October , raised the strong possibility that the incoming shift were unaware that a vital valve had been removed . |
| 24 | Although most people were relieved that the waiting game was over , the first days and nights were nerve-racking . |
| 25 | Soviet officials were relieved when the Iranian government replaced this extremist plan in July 1982 with the view that a settlement of the situation around Afghanistan should be based on ‘ the principles of Islam and non-alignment ’ . |
| 26 | In patrilineal descent groups , he argued , the individual family and private property were prominent and the communal principle already moribund . |
| 27 | His toes were warm and a good colour , and there was no sign of swelling above or below the plaster . |
| 28 | It did n't have a chorus and the bass line was frug heaven and guitars were abstract-sounding while the new thing , digital sampling , was in there somewhere too . |
| 29 | Neither were visible and the heavy spray made them undetectable by radar . |
| 30 | But the windows were bigger than a small cottage would hold . |