Example sentences of "[adj] were [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russian frontier , running some 1,450km/900mls from Memel on the Baltic Sea to the Bukovina in northern Romania , was highly vulnerable to a German attack southward from East Prussia , especially if this were matched by an Austrian advance northward from Galicia . |
| 2 | Equally , I suspect a good few were left with an uneasy feeling in the pit of their stomachs . |
| 3 | He coached abroad on a number of occasions , always refusing any kind of payment , even for his expenses , and his three visits to Harvard between 1896 and 1898 were rewarded by an honorary degree . |
| 4 | Often , the words alleged against the accused were spoken in an alehouse , and although alcohol might help loosen one 's inhibitions , we surely have to be sceptical about the depth of commitment of someone whose only Jacobite statement was made in a drunken stupor . |
| 5 | Many of these were transferred to an internment camp at Long Kesh near Lisburn . |
| 6 | These were intended as an aid to discussion , a means of stimulating debate . |
| 7 | Indeed , that section is worded exceptionally widely and would empower the Secretary of State to undertake root-and-branch reforms of the whole process of transferring shares , whether or not these were listed on an exchange . |
| 8 | While loss of learning ability among the elderly appeared primarily linked to difficulties in understanding , recall , and error abandonment , if these were corrected at an early stage ‘ old people can learn much more readily than is commonly supposed ’ ( Welford 1966 : 5 ) . |
| 9 | Three people died and fourteen were injured after an explosion at a chemical works in West Yorkshire . |
| 10 | The toast to the Divisions has for some time been a ‘ musical geography tour ’ and this time people present were treated to an extra musical item being the toast to National Office , whereby gave an immaculate rendition of The Hippopotamus Song . |
| 11 | Two people died and 62 were injured in an IRA attack on the 512-bedroom Hilton in 1975 . |
| 12 | During the 1974 and 1975 seasons young supporters of Oxford United were concentrated in an area of terracing known as the ‘ London Road End ’ . |
| 13 | Instead of dying by the age of about 40 , more were living to an age at which they could not continue to work and had to be supported . |
| 14 | Elections for the Kuwaiti Chamber of Commerce and Industry on May 25 were seen as an indicator of the likely outcome of the general election planned for the following October [ see p. 38789 ] . |
| 15 | Complementary pairs of oligonucleotides with the sequences indicated in Figure 1 were synthesized on an Applied Biosystems model 381A oligonucleotide synthesizer . |
| 16 | Attention has also been drawn to the evidence of continuing peasant unrest even after the mass disturbances of 1905–7 were brought to an end . |
| 17 | The 1880s/1890s were marked by an early challenge to the UK 's hegemony by the industrialization of Germany , other European countries and the United States . |
| 18 | After screening more than 360000 men , the 12 000 who were eligible were placed into an experimental or control group . |
| 19 | The more liberal values of the 1960s were sustained in an unobtrusive , yet pervasive , climate of common attitudes shared by Home Office officials , special interest groups , and a respectable body of informed opinion . |
| 20 | When the two were placed in an aquarium the association became clear . |
| 21 | Nine patients ( 12.5% ) underwent a second endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography for duct clearance which was successful in five , seven were done as an elective procedure and two as an emergency , at a median of two months ( range 0.25–7 ) . |
| 22 | Both were escaping from an historicist notion of evolutionary development , traditional to their disciplines . |
| 23 | And , with its disintegration , both were driven to an increasing identification with German nationalism and the proposal for a merger of Austria and Germany . |