Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] were [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The native slaves owned by Russians of all social classes were in the first place either prisoners-of-war or women and children captured after the men of a native community had been killed . |
| 2 | The hand-loom weavers were among the last to be driven into the factories . |
| 3 | National governments and international organisations were among the first institutions to adopt electronic processing of large datasets ( e.g. census data , tax records ) . |
| 4 | The Greek philosophers were among the first to grapple with language . |
| 5 | American firms were among the first to confront a national mass market since the market for consumer goods was huge , the whole of the country being a free trade area for business firms . |