Example sentences of "were [adj] [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meaning , the accentuation , and the form , of , for instance , early British music hall , early syncopated dance music , early rock 'n' roll , were subject to precisely this kind of struggle . |
| 2 | During its existence , the structure and functions of the MSC were subject to virtually continuous review and reorganisation . |
| 3 | These deposits on the Barrier and Korosi volcanoes were contemporaneous with very high lake levels that occurred throughout the Kenya rift between about 12kyr and 7kyr ago , and correspond to a humid climate associated with the latest glacial-to-interglacial transition of stages 2 to 1 in the marine 18 O record . |
| 4 | Lenin clashed with the most intransigent Bolsheviks , led by the philosopher A.A. Bogdanov , who were hostile to even minimal use of such legal outlets as Duma representation and favoured concentration upon preparation for a new armed uprising . |
| 5 | Neither was very successful because the characters were not fully defined and the plots were confused by too much use of stage effects . |
| 6 | These workshops were responsible for only that part of the production process or those components of the final product most sensitive to labour cost differentials , and have been located principally in South-East Asia and parts of Latin America ( Grunwald and Flamm , 1985 ) . |
| 7 | That the Nene Valley potters were capable of much finer work than the Wisbech example is clear from a fine figure on a large vessel from Bannaventa ( fig. 14.26a ) . |
| 8 | Average milk yields of 6,000–6,500 litres per lactation were common with fairly detailed recording being used as a management aid at two of the farms . |
| 9 | But one banking source involved in the NAB syndicate said : ‘ It has been a long-running saga and banks were worried about yet another swing of assets from one part of the Bond organisation to another . ’ |
| 10 | The Shiite-generated Amal and Hezbollah , underpinned by Syria and Iran respectively , were inclined to sometimes violent disagreement with one another . |
| 11 | As they were certain about only one thing , their fourth child was not going to Holland Park Comprehensive , they followed the psychologist 's advice and Emma , from eight years onwards , had a happy , if conventional education at boarding school , first at Knighton House in Dorset and then , at thirteen , moving to the more traditional Cranborne Chase . |
| 12 | Perspiration was streaming down the senator 's face and his eyes were bleary with too much quinine . |
| 13 | The couple — Mr. and Mrs. Reeves — were both of very short stature , hardly touching five feet in height . |