Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] were [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 46 cross-border deals involved in the German total were valued at $3.7 billion . |
| 2 | Any dregs of left-over resentment were directed at Alain Lemarchand , the man who had forced her into this , the man who had forced both of them into it . |
| 3 | Of the family only she and her 17-year-old brother were left at home . |
| 4 | Data on smoking habit and social class were collected at recruitment , at which time 48% of pill users smoked compared with 42% of the controls . |
| 5 | THE VIRTUES of good old-fashioned wing-play were underlined at Bolton where Hulme Grammar School , Oldham , beat their hosts 2-0 . |
| 6 | The Russian government has published a report acknowledging that large quantities of Soviet nuclear waste were dumped at sea , in violation of international standards . |
| 7 | potential defects and doubts about long-term durability were discussed at length . |
| 8 | At the time the L & B railway was built there were no railway carriage building firms so that underframes for original stock were constructed at Euston or , as it was then called , Euston Grove Station , while bodies were built by a West End road vehicle builder and carted from his works to the station . |
| 9 | Second , as noted above , the various high officers of the learned profession were entitled at intervals to invest a stipulated number of students , whether their own or those of others , with the right to become enrolled as . |