Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] were [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour activists were rooted in particular localities and political traditions , and these were to provide the basis for labourist hegemony in the formal political arena of West Ham throughout the interwar period . |
| 2 | In one study a random group of residents in a home for the elderly and infirm were given a house plant to own and look after . |
| 3 | One has transferred to the communications department and all were offered the opportunity to work for the new contract firm . |
| 4 | Just as Britain pumped the proceeds of North Sea Oil into the US economy , the Dutch in the 1960s and 1970s were investing the proceeds of North Sea gas . |
| 5 | The children in the junior school aged between seven and 11 were given a talk on Swan Lake and a demonstration of the ballet . |
| 6 | Part of the street was thronged with teenagers , and more were arriving every instant on their mopeds . |
| 7 | Profitt , Michael Cook , 18 , Adrian Sinclair , 19 , and Lee Scrivens , 19 , all from Birmingham , admitted theft charges ; another six City supporters were also remanded in custody or on bail , and 23 were fined a total of £8,600 for admitting charges arising from a weekend in the Lancashire resort which a Football Association inquiry may punish by banning City supporters from remaining away games ; all their away matches were made all-ticket for an indefinite period after trouble last season at Crystal Palace . |
| 8 | The years 1544 and 1545 were to see a number of English invasions , of which those of May 1544 and the autumn of 1545 — timed for the destruction of the harvest — were by far the worst . |
| 9 | This is not to say the women artists chosen were only figurative painters — they were in the minority ; but many were re-interpreting the system of symbols . |