Example sentences of "[adj] were in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith . |
| 2 | In 1987 , the number of new houses added to the total stock was only 212,000 , and of this number only 34,000 were in the public sector . |
| 3 | That 's alright , that 's ok were in the garden |
| 4 | Forms are stored in separate boxes according to their accession ( ’ D ’ ) numbers ; thus all of the D 21,000 series were in one box , and the D ‘ , 000s were in the next one , and so on . |
| 5 | Few were in the market for the Kuwaiti shares , but few were in the market at all with such an overhang : only 2.9m shares changed hands compared with Tuesday 's 30m . |
| 6 | Few were in the market for the Kuwaiti shares , but few were in the market at all with such an overhang : only 2.9m shares changed hands compared with Tuesday 's 30m . |
| 7 | A few were in the hands of private companies , but the majority were owned either by the Federal or state governments . |
| 8 | Quite a few were in the printing and paper trades as folders , envelope makers , envelope stampers etc . |
| 9 | Some of the organisations studied had upgraded the status of large numbers of their temporary workers for this reason in the past , some were in the process of doing so . |
| 10 | Surgical causes were mostly postoperative but some were in the category of acute surgical admissions . |
| 11 | Three of the Birmingham Six were in the public gallery to hear the judgement . |
| 12 | At the district scale in South Devon , 531 of the 734 completions of local authority dwellings between 1976 and 1979 were in the three main towns of Kingsbridge , Totnes and Ivybridge and only 51 completions were in parishes outside the seven main settlements ( Phillips and Williams 1982a ) . |
| 13 | Capitalist activity in the nineteenth century , for the reasons discussed above , was mainly associated with new types of activity , such as cocoa production or mineral mining , whether these were in the hands of European or African entrepreneurs . |
| 14 | Far too many of these were in the motor industry . |
| 15 | Thus only about 70 or 80 of the brides were marrying skilled manual workers ; and 42 of these were in the printing trade , massively skewing the figures . |
| 16 | I had the odd George II and George III copper , but these were in the minority and it was the 17th century coinage that was popping up with some regularity . |
| 17 | Only nine oesophageal perforations occurred during a total of 1373 dilatation treatments ( procedure related incidence 0.58% ) , and eight of these were in the corrosive stricture group . |
| 18 | Only nine perforations occurred during a total of 1373 dilatation sessions ( procedure related incidence of perforation 0.58% ) in the whole group ; eight of these were in the corrosive group ( total number of dilatation sessions 990 , procedure related incidence of perforation 0.8% ) . |
| 19 | Of the final 222 children , 139 were in the adenoidectomy and adenotonsillectomy group and 83 in the no surgery group . |
| 20 | In the 1760s most of England 's high-wage counties were in the south-east and the greatest concentration of low-wage counties was in the north ; by the 1790s , eight out of the eleven highest-wage counties were in the north and midlands and only three were in the south-east . |
| 21 | This right was often exercised and mean that by 1983 many were in the hands of individuals with no interest in golf , but who had inherited bonds by assignment through parents or grandparents . |
| 22 | He showed a box of matches , shook them and asked a volunteer to guess how many were in the box . |
| 23 | Gazza 's goal was worth the wait and all the confusion but only 5,000 were in the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan stadium to witness it . |
| 24 | His wife , Gabrielle , and their four children including girls aged seven , ten and 11 were in the living room at the time . |
| 25 | That 's right , all those were in the yard , that 's right , yes . |
| 26 | Of the total , 3,525 were in the UK and 2,301 overseas . |
| 27 | Counties with some of the highest growth rates up to 1978 were in the rural extremities of southern England , Wales , and Scotland , a most unusual situation for the twentieth century . |
| 28 | Of the 127 seats at stake ( one through a by-election ) , 77 were in 47 prefectural districts , where candidates were chosen by name , while the remaining 50 were in the national constituency and were allocated between the parties on the basis of proportional representation . |
| 29 | Serum samples for measurement of bismuth were collected from 46 patients of whom 25 were in the bismuth group ; only those from the bismuth group were analysed at the end of the study . |
| 30 | Seventeen were in the building trade ; mostly in skilled trades such as mason , painter or bricklayer . |