Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother and the Sheikha were in constant conference . |
| 2 | It is almost certainly true to say that there never was any significant period when god worship and religion were as modern man would wish them to be , but instead , that they have always been corrupted , to some extent , to support greed and excess . |
| 3 | He said my words were of pellucid clarity and great wisdom , but he knew nothing of poison , and if I wished to complain , he would be glad to take sherbet with you , or with Zacco . |
| 4 | Kingdom 's words were like harsh daylight flooding into a photographer 's dark-room . |
| 5 | Pollack & Pickett ( 63 ) , presenting listeners with stretches of conversational speech in a gating experiment , found that samples of about 140 csec ( i.e. about seven words ) were required before intelligibility reached 90% , despite the fact that listeners knew how many words were in each sample , and , for later samples , were hearing repetitions of the initial context . |
| 6 | In many cases , the latter variables were accounted for more than initial variables — ; ‘ first or last words were in many cases influential in my decision making process ’ and ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ . |
| 7 | His reasoning was that none of the men who were conceivable successors were of sufficient stature to reign — he talked privately about his " monarchy " — without the legitimation of popular election . |
| 8 | The cosmids were picked in batches of about 50 from the set of unhit clones ( ie by sampling without replacement ) , and so to ensure that the cosmids in each batch were from different regions on the genome ( and hence to maximize efficiency ) the unhit clones were reordered against the ordered YAC probes . |
| 9 | The home side were at full stretch and with little possession were unable to threaten the RUC line . |
| 10 | He and Jeff were out most of the time , trying to track down the speedboat , for which a popular local search had been mounted , and he was hardly ever at the villa . |
| 11 | It may be that this was done only where there was a public interest , but we have already seen that in the two areas in which trusts involved purely private interests , restitution of property and manumission , the remedies of cognitio were in any case adequate to secure specific performance . |
| 12 | The cylinders were of 15 nm diameter and the hexagon unit cell lattice parameter was 30 nm . |
| 13 | The cylinders were like potential bombs . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm not joking , his leg his legs were about that wide right ? |
| 15 | Even the stables were in perfect balance . |
| 16 | During the nineteenth century , the cattle of Friesland in particular were being selected locally for black-and-white pied coats at a time when the cattle of other provinces were of various colours and types . |
| 17 | About 85pc of SIDs happened to babies aged less than six months , of which 60pc were between one month and four months . |
| 18 | The Technical schools were for those who had a technical , practical bent . |
| 19 | This might be because two schools were below average size for a secondary comprehensive ; the instruction to offer tests to pupils in the lowest sets rounded up to a complete set could have resulted in more higher ability pupils being included than was the case in larger schools with more sets . |
| 20 | I caught the sense of victory in seeing the film of Henry V — just as I had supposed that all schools were like that of Goodbye Mr Chips , which I was taken to see in 1939 . |
| 21 | By the date of the last epidemic it had been understood that the disease was mainly water-borne , and steps were at last being taken to secure a safe supply . |
| 22 | Saville ( 1957 ) observed that the bulk of rural out-migrants were aged 20 — 29 , while Jones ( 1965 ) found in a study of mid-Wales that 38 per cent of all migrants were aged less than 25 . |
| 23 | Schoolteachers , power workers , post office engineers , staff at the Royal Mint and sections of the newspaper industry were among those who either struck or worked to rule in a bid to break the pay policy . |
| 24 | Granada Motorway Services , Asda and the vehicle building and repair industry were among those imposing 12-month freezes . |
| 25 | Remarkably almost a third of the readers were from outside Wales , a similar proportion came from Aberystyth itself , and the rest of Wales accounted for 40pc . |
| 26 | Accusations of republican and Communist domination of NICRA and attempts to link the civil rights movement to subversion and violence were to some extent understandable responses by Unionists to the events in Derry . |
| 27 | By the reign of Henry III their offices were of considerable antiquity . |
| 28 | The Swift offices were of grey marble and gleamed under cool sunlight . |
| 29 | The Scottish and Welsh Offices were in similar positions . |
| 30 | The offices of Lord Warden , Ranger , and other Forest offices were in most cases abolished , and compensation allowed by the Acts to the holders . |