Example sentences of "[adj] were the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The broad reasons for this were the difficulties in adopting his ontology of social being and knowledge and his espousal of ‘ relationism ’ . |
| 2 | One example of this were the experiments of Edward L. Thorndyke who put an animal , usually a cat , in a wooden puzzle box where it had to learn a response , e.g. stepping on a lever to unlock the door and get out . |
| 3 | What the older Michael mostly remembered about this were the games — croquet in which the parents joined the children , tennis , a sort of squash with his brother hitting a tennis ball against a veranda wall , expeditions up the river through the Backs and then up to the village of Grantchester . |
| 4 | Two crucial stages in this were the formation of an alliance with the Emperor Alexius I Comnenus of Byzantium against the Norman empire threatening to spread into Venice 's Adriatic and Byzantine Greece in the 1080s ; and the role Venice came increasingly to play in the crusading adventures of the twelfth century . |
| 5 | The most immediate casualty of this were the talks aimed at sending a single Korean team to compete in the Asian Games in China in September . |
| 6 | The more conspicuous results of this were the Centre Pompidou and the Musée d'Orsay ; a law of 1978 earmarked FFr363 million over 1978–82 for the the latter out of a total FFr1.407 billion to all museums , representing a five-fold increase relative to the previous five years and 64% of the total budget for culture . |
| 7 | If this were the case , most people , whose call is to marriage , would be able to pick up one message and one message only from celibates . |
| 8 | If this were the case it would explain why they had not held meetings on this occasion . |
| 9 | If this were the case , then the implications for our society would be enormous and worthy of more than passing comment . |
| 10 | Exceptions to this were the case of the Chilean urban poor before and during the Allende period and Peruvian collective action during the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 11 | Even if this were the case , there would still be the social problems experienced by mentally handicapped people who may have spent most of their lives in a hospital and find it difficult to cope with a completely new environment . |
| 12 | If this were the case , it would follow that the meme for celibacy could have greater survival value than the meme for marriage . |
| 13 | But if this were the case why has the local-central state system been subject to continuous conflict and occasional crisis ? |
| 14 | The validity of this intuition awaits the report of the experiment , but if this were the case , what foundation could it have ? |
| 15 | If this were the case , would it not be best to tackle them in terms of the theory of games ? |
| 16 | If this were the case , the council must have been rapidly undeceived . |
| 17 | But if this were the case , then the fleas had taken a terrible revenge for the loss of their erstwhile companion through history , their life-support system . |
| 18 | There is a possibility that minister here refers to Ealdhun and that Offa was angered because Ealdhun had given his lands to Christ Church , Canterbury , without King Ecgberht 's permission , but even if this were the case , it is clear that Offa 's reaction was to the way in which Ecgberht also had made grants of land without his permission ; he revoked both Ealdhun 's donations and Ecgberht 's , not only to Canterbury but to Rochester . |
| 19 | If this were the case in driving it would have important implications for peoples ’ ability to learn to avoid danger . |
| 20 | If this were the case then a junction would only be more likely to be recalled if the subject had actually felt at risk even if they knew it to be a generally dangerous junction . |
| 21 | If this were the case then within an individual junction we would expect risk related information to be best remembered for risky exemplars and peripheral information to be best remembered for the less risky exemplars . |
| 22 | If this were the case there would be no need to propose that risk has any effect on memory or attention at all in these situations . |
| 23 | If this were the case one would also expect to find increased basal secretion in smokers — in our study this was not the case . |
| 24 | If this were the case , the drop in population in the first half of the period could have been deeper and the subsequent recovery slower than existing replacement figures suggest . |
| 25 | If this were the case , why was there a change in the 1370s ? |
| 26 | If this were the case , the council must have been rapidly undeceived . |
| 27 | If this were the case there would be no need for a working memory . |
| 28 | Thus while both Higgenbotham ( 1983 : 124 ) and Palmer ( 1988 : 189 ) feel that a sentence such as John was seen to leave has the reporting " see that " meaning ( i.e. " Somebody saw that John left " ) , Mittwoch ( 1990 : 121 ) points out that if this were the case one would expect the perfect form of the infinitive to be completely acceptable and complement negation to be considerably better in a passive sentence than in the corresponding active one , which is not the case in ( 61 ) and ( 62 ) : ( 61 ) ? |
| 29 | If this were the case , then one of two points must follow ; either Childeric himself never ruled over the whole of Belgica Secunda , or Syagrius established his kingdom after Childeric 's death . |
| 30 | Linked with this were the revival of the economy through a change to a market system , the restoration of the environment , improvement and protection of social conditions , linking the country to pan-European structures , and relations between Czechs and Slovaks . |