Example sentences of "[adj] were [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN the Angolan government delegates flew back last week to Luanda from Abidjan , capital of Côte d'Ivoire , few were mourning the abortive six-week peace talks they had left behind . |
| 2 | As Baddam indicates , the French were translating the Philosophical Transactions simultaneously ( de Brémond , and then Demours , for the 1731–40 period ) . |
| 3 | The French were to win the final set by a combination of factors . |
| 4 | This time the flood tide of ‘ forward and backward Cs in which the French so much delight ’ was flowing inexplicably at a time when we and the French were fighting the Seven Years War and French fashions , like French bottle makers and garlic , were desperately unpopular . |
| 5 | From the beginning of Phase 2 , BRAC implemented a change in the method of teaching the LGS message to the villagers : Whilst 90% of the unions ( subdistricts ) visited by Oral Replacement Workers in Phase 2 were given the same ‘ Standard ’ training which had been offered to the other unions during Phase 1 , 10% of the Phase 2 unions were chosen to test an experimental Concentrated Reinforcement Programme ( CRP ) developed by BRAC . |
| 6 | During his rapid exit from the balloon carriage Sadler had lost both his signal flags , but these were found the next day in a field near Burton Pedwardine by Mr Edward Robinson , together with Sadler 's hat , cushion and , understandably , his broken thermometer ! |
| 7 | Probably the incident to receive the greatest publicity , at least in Britain , involved the shooting-up of two British Warrior armoured personnel carriers by an American A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft while all three were pursuing the retreating Iraqis , resulting in nine British infantrymen being killed . |
| 8 | The other church leaders were released after several hours in custody , although three were re-arrested the following day . |
| 9 | The bar room was warm and inviting as always , and just enough people to be comfortable were enjoying the cosy environment . |
| 10 | While training schoolchildren to deal with threatening situations , they found many were making the wrong decisions . |
| 11 | Many were following the old General ( later Combined ) Degree which allowed them to study three subjects for finals . |
| 12 | 21–7 Between 200 and 300 Glasgow Fair visitors were brought by the steamer " Islay " and more were expected the next two days . |
| 13 | First-timers in their millions were backing the saxophone-playing candidate from the baby-boom years they could identify with . |
| 14 | The only group claiming responsibility was the hitherto unknown " Mohammed El Boukhima " , and about 15 people detained for questioning in the Albi area on May 23 were freed the same day . |
| 15 | Around 1.7 million of these were looking after someone in the same household ; 1.4 million were providing help or supervision for at least twenty hours a week ; and 3.7 million were carrying the main responsibility for providing that help ( Green , 1988 ) . |
| 16 | Sir Patrick , welcoming Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring , rejected suggestions that relations between both Governments had been at a low ebb after their last talks in July and stressed that both were treating the worsening security situation ‘ very seriously ’ . |