Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [adj] [conj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Commission on Local Government in Scotland ( Wheatley 1969 ) followed the same broad analysis of the ills of the system as their English counterparts , but their prescriptions were different and in some ways more radical . |
| 2 | The mullahs were concerned that in a republic the Muslin clergy might be disestablished , as had recently happened in Turkey . |
| 3 | Polls in medium or small communities were not often violent ; but it is probable that the same tensions were present as in Ajdabiya , and that they were exacerbated by the absence of campaign , by the necessity of choosing among ideologically undifferentiated candidates , and by the prolonged confrontation of voters in a confined space . |
| 4 | In such cases the tensions were greater than in the smaller schools . |
| 5 | Although in both carcinomas and normal mucosa urokinase type plasminogen activator antigen and activity showed a significant correlation ( respectively , R=0.38 , p<0.01 and R=0.41 , p<0.005 ) and the activity of urokinase type plasminogen activator in carcinomas was higher than in normal mucosa , this difference did not reach statistical significance ( Table I ) . |
| 6 | Both in 1780 when a divergence between metropolitan radicals and Wyvill 's gentry in the county associations was evident and in 1793–4 with the calling of a British and then an English Convention , the contradictory potentialities of the convention were part of the substance of debate amongst participants . |
| 7 | Well , nearly — it appeared game , set and match to the PFA but either the memory , or the shorthand , of the Football League 's negotiators was faulty because in their letter to clubs , describing what had been agreed , they led them to believe that the second principle had not been conceded . |
| 8 | Mexico was also regarded as a promising base for the expansion of Comintern influence , but Moscow 's distrust of the Mexican Communists was such that in March 1926 the Comintern took a decision to entrust the Communist party of the United States with special responsibility in the same area : the Mexican Communist party was therefore effectively under a dual tutelage ( Clissold : 1970 , p. 10 ) . |
| 9 | Its great expectations were such that in 1975 it produced what it called a ‘ Reference Programme ’ of future development based on a dramatic growth in electricity demand . |
| 10 | The two remaining stations were small and in Belfast . |
| 11 | Here the workers were fewer than in the machine shop , and shyer — perhaps because they were mostly Asian . |
| 12 | The buildings were mean and in the streets , littered with rubbish , people jostled against us . |
| 13 | In aggregate then , the run-down of employment in foreign-owned plants was steadier than in domestic industry , reflecting more the international average of changes in the economy and productivity . |
| 14 | His residential problems were fewer than in 1929 . |
| 15 | Overall , by 1900 central government action concerning recognized social problems was greater than in 1870 but still slight in contrast with the magnitude of those problems and of the range of demands for action . |
| 16 | Concern was expressed with the results of this free-for-all policy , both as far as the number of solicitors from large firms was concerned and in respect of the quality of advocacy : |
| 17 | The objectives were laudable and in some ways romantic . |
| 18 | The general social and political advantages of the newly enlarged audiences were obvious but in cultural terms what was really significant as far as the subsequent history of the movies was concerned was that the showmen who made and presented the movies were no longer thinking in terms of a homogeneous or class audience . |
| 19 | Now all was noise and confusion , as he tried to hold two of them off with his single bayonet , and most of his countrymen were dead or in retreat . |
| 20 | And where internal inflationary pressures were stronger than in the United States , devaluation was used to push the constraint aside . |
| 21 | Activity levels were less than in 1991 and could reduce further in 1993 . |
| 22 | The evidence in support of these allegations was vague and in the event unsubstantiated despite in extensive Social Services investigation which ran parallel to the Statementing procedures . |
| 23 | Laboratory data in the 23 asymptomatic patients was normal except in 8 ( 29% ) which had a mildly raised alkaline phosphatase ( mean 172 IU/l ) , five of these also had a mildly raised GGT ( mean 156 IU/l ) . |
| 24 | The rate of relapse in elemental diet treated patients was higher than in those who had gained remission with prednisolone . |
| 25 | ‘ The spirit and ideas of the liberals were republican although in order not to affront openly the opinions of the masses , they pretended no other aim than a limited monarchy , basing their projects on laws and events in the history of Spain adapted to their purposes . ’ |
| 26 | He had a gift for friendship , and a wide range of acquaintances , but his close friends were few and in his later years were drawn from a small circle who shared his interest in the lives and books of medieval scholars . |
| 27 | Where democratic institutions were ineffective as in pre-war Japan , it was all too easy for a collectivist tradition to be used to mobilize support for an authoritarian regime . |
| 28 | If those authorities were negligent or in any way in breach of duty , it is important that that fact should be uncovered at an early stage . |
| 29 | His fingers were bloody and in his eyes there was such despair that I could not stand it and went out into the filthy courtyard ’ . |
| 30 | Eleven theses , for which declaration forms were present and in order , recorded no consultations . |