Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But three in every four Vietnamese-Americans arrived or were born in the past decade . |
| 2 | During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries many villages were industrialized in the sense that the majority of their inhabitants worked as nailmakers or weavers , for example , or at some other ancient hand-craft or were employed in the new mills , ironworks , quarries and coalmines which had transformed so many parts of the English countryside . |
| 3 | An estimated 2,000,000 people either fled or were evacuated from the coastal regions in advance of the hurricane . |
| 4 | However by 1941 , almost the entire membership had either found war work or was employed in the surviving Edinburgh printing offices , and by then only 2 members were listed as out of work . |
| 5 | They arrived safely and were met by the royal purveyor from Kinghorn ( also called Alexander ) who had brought horses down to the beach for the royal party ; these included the King 's favourite , a white mare called Tamesin which he had left at Kinghorn for the Queen 's own use . |
| 6 | , and I flew to Agra in the evening , and were met by the British Council driver . |
| 7 | Her expression was wistful , reminiscent , as she recalled how , once they had gone up endless stairs and were seated on the hard wooden benches , an attendant had come along and pushed them all closer and closer together so that as many spectators as possible could be packed in . |
| 8 | Perhaps those who came in repentance and were prepared for the running waters of Jordan to flow over their heads in judgment were thought of as undergoing the judgment of God in symbol so that they would not have to undergo it in its awful reality on the Day of Judgment . |
| 9 | Within minutes , five or six men had taken off their shoes , rolled up their trousers and were wading in the icy water . |
| 10 | We were both young enough and old enough to have vivid wartime memories of the Second World War , and were fascinated by the ominous array of masts and dark shapes in the bay . |
| 11 | Reductions in manufacturing employment were even more dramatic at the LLMA level , 1971–87 ( Table 5.6 ) , and were compounded by the disproportionate dependence on manufacturing of many of Britain 's provincial cities , especially Birmingham and Sheffield . |
| 12 | This is not the place to review housing policy since the war , except to note that market criteria asserted themselves again during the 1950s under the Conservative governments and were accepted by the Labour government in the mid-1960s . |
| 13 | They had already been parachute-trained at Ringway near Manchester and were led by the redoubtable Commandant Bergé , whom Stirling later acknowledged as a co-founder of the SAS . |
| 14 | We had filled our tank , and were eating at the open food-stall , or " warong " , just across the street when a dilapidated petrol-truck pulled in to top up the filling-station 's reservoir . |
| 15 | Some very wide wheels 16 inch diameter were fitted to One Ten and Forward Control vehicles and 15 inch diameter were an option with sand tyres and were fitted to the Pink Panthers . |
| 16 | We were warmly invited to stay with them for the duration of the festival , and were conducted to the top floor for a rather formal preliminary audience with Ranteallo and his elders . |
| 17 | The championships ended in 1984 and were replaced by the new Formula 3000 Championship . |
| 18 | All the then existing councils , with the exception of parish councils in England , ceased to exist , and were replaced by the following : — |
| 19 | The great compressional movements of colliding plates subsided and were replaced by the vertical movements of tension and isostatic readjustment . |
| 20 | For that last half-hour of the day , the dunes became a deeper gold and were scored with the long shadows of palm trees , whose tops were so green that I fancied that if my arm had been long enough I could have plucked a leaf and eaten it as if it had been parsley . |
| 21 | All the children were at that time highly disturbed and were placed with the foster mother on a long term fostering basis . |
| 22 | Humanistic hands These styles started in Italy in the fifteenth century and were based on the Carolingian minuscule . |
| 23 | 9.86 million hectares of land in the UK ( 48% of its total land area and 51% of its agricultural land ) are designated under Article 3(4) of the Directive ( see Chapter 3 ) , i.e. ‘ less favoured areas in danger of depopulation , ’ but with the tiny-exception of the Isles of Scilly which are designated under Article 3(5) , i.e. ‘ other less favoured areas affected by specific handicaps. ’ 8.65 million hectares were designated in 1974 with adjustments in 1976 , and were based on the old ‘ hill areas ’ under the 1946 Hill Farming Act and already receiving special support measures from the British government . |
| 24 | C Company were the UK Key Company for Exercise Avenue Express , and were based in the coastal town of Hofoaek , fifty kilometres west of Copenhagen . |
| 25 | We visited both city and rural programmes and were struck by the amazing capacity of the people to overcome adversity , both natural disasters and the extremes of poverty . |
| 26 | In December 1982 Jim 's family started squatting in council housing and were referred to the social work department by the housing department . |
| 27 | All 18 appeared before magistrates in Kampala on May 7 and were referred to the High Court . |
| 28 | ‘ Try a window , ’ shouted someone , and within a matter of minutes two men had stout stakes and were breaking in the ground-floor windows . |
| 29 | However , during the first Two Periods of the development of the Created God , the pleasures of life were confined to those of a purely physical nature and were born of the ruthless competition for life . |
| 30 | The suddenly rendered-visible women who attracted attention were working with anti-sculptural , anti-formal , alternative strategies and were mobilised around the hyperactive Lucy Lippard ( who , until then , had been very partial to male artists in her exhibition projects and writings ) . |