Example sentences of "were [adj] [verb] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negotiations over Chilean membership of the group were due to resume in the second half of 1991 . |
| 2 | They were lucky to survive in the 40th minute when Taylor headed against the crossbar , but Wycombe 's Steve Thompson saw a 49th-minute header was cleared off the line by Paul Raven . |
| 3 | A few months earlier , West Indies had encountered any number of problems in Australia and had lost the series 5–1 ; they had then beaten India 2–1 at home , the last match being won when no fewer than five Indians were unable to bat in the second innings . |
| 4 | However , if you were able to travel in the third dimension , you could cut straight across . |
| 5 | Post Mills were first built in the twelfth century and there is little difference in design between the early examples and those constructed in the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | The Severnside cheese cattle were first documented in the thirteenth century and there is a theory that there might be a Norman ancestry , though the evidence is circumstantial : a certain Norman baron owned large parts of the two counties in about 1100 and is known to have imported cattle from Normandy . |
| 7 | The last five tables listed in Figure 14.2 were first introduced in the eighteenth edition . |
| 8 | ‘ Is that one of the reasons why you were keen to invest in the first place , even one of the reasons why you decided to back the new housing development ? ’ |