Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [was/were] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the problems facing physicists who sought to apply general relativity to these newly discovered or hypothetical objects was to make it compatible with quantum mechanics . |
| 2 | In the case of the last round of the Young Cook of Britain competition , to be judged on 17 October , regional finalists were asked which famous person they would like to cook for . |
| 3 | In 1979 , British voters were given their first opportunity to elect representatives . |
| 4 | This is a time period which witnessed rapid change in all spheres of life ; following the migrations ( Arnold 1984a ) rural communities were expanding their social and political networks to form the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms . |
| 5 | Born near Kiev in 1893 , while his American-naturalized parents were visiting their Russian homeland , Mischa Levitzki was sent at seven to Poland 's Alexander Michalowski ( renowned for insistence on a solid technical foundation ) before continuing with Stowjowski in New York and Dohnányi in Berlin . |
| 6 | Perhaps it just grew and matured until it took in all their emotions , but his hands began to smooth her back and shoulders , until in the end his fingers were threaded through her hair and his big , warm hands were holding her steady while he kissed her with mesmerising thoroughness . |
| 7 | The cocoa-brown eyes were scanning her bewildered expression , and a glint of gentle amusement crept into the steady scrutiny . |
| 8 | Er the , the only good thing to come out of these proposals is that erm that he supports the erm the appearance of the public enquiry and the sale of erm that , that erm he suggests for example that we should try the airports policy consortium , well we dealt that five years ago when we realised that Surrey and it 's surrounding areas were getting their own pressure group organised to make sure that Stansted got all of the flack got all the , got all the few other things as well . |
| 9 | If all industrialized countries were to increase their overseas aid to the 0.7 per cent of GNP recommended by the United Nations , it would cost an extra $50 billion a year . |
| 10 | Great moon-daisies were shedding their yellow petals all around us ; a mint grew in the grass which made the air extra sweet . |
| 11 | In the Weald , small farmers were showing their new-found freedoms and minor prosperities with a new type of house-building . |
| 12 | In his speech , De Michelis urged EC countries to devote at least 0.25 per cent of their gross national product ( GNP ) towards investment in the Maghreb countries where demographic pressures were rendering them vulnerable to the forces of Islamic fundamentalism and encouraging mass migration to Europe . |
| 13 | The remaining void shields were doing their best to bleed hostile energies away as heat , but there was n't time for it to radiate away . |
| 14 | He withheld the signal until the range was close enough to be deadly , and the stocky Welsh ponies were stretching their frenzied necks and rigid nostrils for the impact , and then flung up his arm , and waited for the tremendous thrumming in the air , that maddening , intoxicating sound like a thousand wild geese all taking flight at once . |
| 15 | Most of the East Anglian ports were enjoying their first spell of prosperity for many years , employment and trade was booming in the area and more customs staff were required at King 's Lynn , Ipswich and Felixstowe , my old home and a natural first choice . |
| 16 | If Guangdong and other coastal regions were to lose their virtual autonomy in dealing with foreign investors and their privileged access to raw materials and fuel supplies , the effect would be far more damaging to Hong Kong 's confidence in China than the sight of tanks rolling into Tiananmen Square . |
| 17 | It seemed as if these mute faces were crying something terrible , the unbelievable horror of their martyrdom . |
| 18 | The Society of Practitioners of Insolvency 's technical director , Gerry Weiss , said that recent cases were making it easier for administrators to obtain and exchange information . |
| 19 | Classrooms became ever more informal and when new schools were built their very shape and design proclaimed acceptance of a way of thinking about young children 's learning which was often quite alien to the more traditional views of parents . |
| 20 | Until then , every studio had a cast list of thirty or forty top-billing actors and actresses and dozens of contracted young people who were provided with their acting lessons , their dance lessons , their speech lessons , and the young directors were given their directorial tests , and they all went into bat often . |
| 21 | One of Priestley 's main chemical interests was to determine what different kinds of gases ( or ‘ airs ’ ) there were and he advanced both their chemistry and number . |
| 22 | To cast aspersions on the new revolutionaries was to put his own patriotism in question : ‘ if I 'd done that , Bill Casey , Jean Kirkpatrick ( the Ambassador to the United Nations ) and Cap Weinberger would have said I was some kind of a commie . ’ |
| 23 | Peter Challis , chairman of the Association of London Authorities housing committee , stressed that local authorities were having their overall budgets cut , affecting the budgets of the SSDs and housing authorities . |
| 24 | Republican communist parties and local branches were to determine their own fate , but all CPSU property was to be put under the control of local soviets . |
| 25 | My Trial , Cave and the Bad Seeds were staging their own dilapidated equivalents to ‘ By the Time I Get to Phoenix ’ and ‘ Something 's Gotten Hold of My Heart ’ , in the gently obliterating , slowly gathering , morose grandeur of ‘ Sad Waters ’ and ‘ Stranger Than Kindness ’ . |