Example sentences of "[adj] were [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village youths had taken to roaring round and round of an evening on highly powered Japanese motorcycles from which the silencers had been removed ; those distressed by this were invoking the law , the youths laughed , their friends and relations pointed out that they 'd paid their road-tax , had n't they , like anyone else ? |
| 2 | To this were added the effects of the transformation of the social structure by industrialization and urbanization in the more advanced areas ( Austria , the Czech lands , etc . ) . |
| 3 | If to this were added the effects of a special pension at 60 for those who were unemployed , a new invalidity pension , the raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen and a uniform forty-hour week , a total of 2,000,000 jobs would be redistributed to the unemployed . |
| 4 | If this were to occur the pricing efficiency of the market would worsen . |
| 5 | Perhaps she had been closer to the truth than she had at first suspected with her taunts about Theo Quinn ; and , although she no longer wanted Ben , she felt that , if this were to prove the case , it would be a great waste of promising material . |
| 6 | And it was of no help to the Scottish Protestants that on 8 August , in the instructions given to that experienced diplomat of the 1540s , Sir Ralph Sadler , now sent north to make a comeback in the Scottish political scene , the English were encouraging the idea of being anti-French and anticipating their outspoken memorandum of the 31st by warbling about the need for government by someone of the blood of Scotland . |
| 7 | This was a game which two could play , and the English were to raid the coast of Normandy several times between 1400 and 1410 . |
| 8 | Altern-8 were sharing the bill with the Prodigy . |
| 9 | ‘ We can never re-create Australia but if the French were calling the side the Lions it would have been an appropriate thank-you to the players . ’ |
| 10 | Already , then , it might be seen that the French were digging the pit into which the US would eventually fall . |
| 11 | By this time it was becoming obvious that in spite of the fact that the French were conveying the impression of a limited operation ‘ to restore order ’ ( which might be at least six months to a year ) they were hoping for more moderate Vietnamese leaders to emerge and , in the meantime , they would not after all negotiate with Ho Chi Minh . |
| 12 | In the meantime , the US Joint Chiefs of Staff were giving their professional opinion how the French were to win the war and what the US would and would not do . |
| 13 | Some were repairing the fence . |
| 14 | Thus the British were denied the chance of a monarch who would have been more cultivated than any of the other Hanoverians , while Sophia , born in exile , died without ever visiting the country to whose throne she was heir . |
| 15 | At the Potsdam Conference of Allied leaders , the Japanese were given the deadline of 3 August for surrender . |
| 16 | The girls from standard six were reading the bible with their class teacher and headmistress , Miss Outram . |
| 17 | In 1946 these were renamed the MVD and MGB and later changed yet again to their present titles of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopastnosti ( KGB ) , and the Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye ( GRU ) . |
| 18 | Most of these were accorded the right to establish elected " national local administrations " for self-government , or to join with neighbouring nationalities to do this . |
| 19 | Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry . |
| 20 | Labour activists were rooted in particular localities and political traditions , and these were to provide the basis for labourist hegemony in the formal political arena of West Ham throughout the interwar period . |
| 21 | What the widow , divorcee or sorrowing woman fails to realize is that if the grieving were to stop the interest might diminish , or if intimacy were to develop to the point of involving responsibility , comfort would be withdrawn . |
| 22 | If , for instance , the loudspeaker on the left were playing the song of the female 's own species , while the one on the right played the song of some other species , the female turns to the left . |
| 23 | Just as Britain pumped the proceeds of North Sea Oil into the US economy , the Dutch in the 1960s and 1970s were investing the proceeds of North Sea gas . |
| 24 | One has transferred to the communications department and all were offered the opportunity to work for the new contract firm . |
| 25 | This is not to say the women artists chosen were only figurative painters — they were in the minority ; but many were re-interpreting the system of symbols . |
| 26 | Apart from any need to counter persistent infringement of the rules of dress and display , the number of enactments is indicative of considerable uncertainty , for not only did the legislature feel impelled to extend the terminology of rank with monetary equivalents , these latter were made the subject of continual amendment within the broad permanent framework . |
| 27 | The few ladies present were given the privilege of drinking out of goblets , some of pewter , some of glass , some of wood . |
| 28 | Either the herbs naturally present were suppressing the disease organism or were helping the fish to suppress the symptoms of the disease |
| 29 | Twelve German HE 113s were bombing the Forth Bridge . |
| 30 | So now the children of the dispossessed were attacking the children of those who had brought such misery to their Palestinian parents . |