Example sentences of "[verb] were the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his case words and the mental images that they created were the only available means of communication with his people . |
| 2 | The three groups rejected were the Jordanian Communist Party ; the Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party ; and the Jordan People 's Democratic Party.The five groups approved were the Jordan National Alliance ( a coalition of central and southern Bedouin tribes ) ; the rightist Pledge ( al-Ahd ) Party ; the Islamic Action Party ( which was backed by the Moslem Brotherhood ) ; and two pan-Arab centrist groups , the Popular Union Party and the Future ( Mustaqbal ) Party . |
| 3 | right , popcorn starts off as little , like little brown seedy things and when it gets heated up it all pops up into fluffy white stuff , those little brown bits that nobody ate were the hard little bead things that did n't pop up , sometimes they do n't pop up you see |
| 4 | They were persons who had been brain-washed by years of experience of disengaging from colonies and saw Northern Ireland as another external colony from which Great Britain was destined to disengage in order to hand it back to the natives whom they assumed were the republican Irish of the island as a whole . |
| 5 | The largest single shipload so far discovered were the 524 Chinese passengers on the East Wood which had to call for help when it broke down near the Marshall Islands earlier this year . |
| 6 | Guns were only a small part of the Sussex output , and much better known were the ornamental cast-iron firebacks much in demand for the more sophisticated housing of the middling and upper ranks . |
| 7 | What I would say is that the power of the local planning authority to resist development on these sites would be materially reduced were the initial negative presumption against development afforded by greenbelt status removed from them . |
| 8 | Meantime , all that mattered were the fifteen hundred marching men who , however tired they might be , would still be able to save them . |
| 9 | Gone were the colourful historical scenes that had been so much in favour with the Hung Mao . |
| 10 | When all I could reply were the two forlorn words , ‘ No English , ’ he asked me if I knew French . |
| 11 | She was roundly defeated by a ratio of two votes to one and the only Actionists elected were the two sitting members in the St George 's ward , which took in the fiercely loyalist area of Sandy Row . |
| 12 | ‘ Why did you go to the trouble of hiring me if what you wanted were the same drab old styles of before ? ’ |
| 13 | However , environmental regulation was only one of the reasons for the closures , for many firms which closed were the older inefficient or obsolete plants ( Harris , 1981 ) . |