Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words were like a sharp slap that brought her to her senses . |
| 2 | Dreamer spoke to her , but the words were in a different voice from the boy 's . |
| 3 | SE claimed that the cylinders were for an Iraqi petrochemical project and that their export had been approved by the UK 's Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) . |
| 4 | ‘ My legs were in a right mess from blows which I took from Tony Cordle and I could hardly bowl for all the strapping when we took the field , ’ grinned Robinson . |
| 5 | Very few pupils left before completing a full five-year course , and 40 per cent of the total pupil population of all the schools were in the sixth form . |
| 6 | Halsey and his associates show that while about 50 per cent of the pupils in private primary schools were from the professional class in the age cohorts 50–59 and 30–39 years , the corresponding proportion for the youngest age cohort , 20–29 years , was almost 70 per cent . |
| 7 | The platform steps were of the fixed type and roller blind destination boxes were mounted at each end above the upper deck rails . |
| 8 | The differences between Mirror and Sun/Star readers were in the expected directions but quite small . |
| 9 | The NME offices were in a scabrous Carnaby Street hovel full of pre-war typewriters , hacks coughing huge clouds of non-Silk Cut type smoke and loads of drunken men and women swigging cheap wine from plastic cups . |
| 10 | The offices were in a high building , one which might well have been neat and prosperous around the time that Dickens was labelling bottles in a boot-blacking warehouse ; now its main value lay in the soaring price of the land on which it stood . |
| 11 | Not all memorable sightings were on the seaward side of the wall . |
| 12 | Staff at other travel firms were stunned as they heard clients were among the dead . |
| 13 | He reckoned the guards were in the small building at the easterly end of the runway . |
| 14 | Another three funds were in the top quartile of their sectors . |
| 15 | And over three years 11 funds were in the top quartile . |
| 16 | All these disputes were about the same theme : the nature of the Europe that the Six wished to construct and the proper relationship between the Community and the member states . |
| 17 | I should n't even be discussing it , because all the parties were under an overdone oath of secrecy . |
| 18 | All the shops were in the lower parts of tall , old houses and had curly , old-fashioned lettering on them , but for the furniture shop , which winked in faulty neon : |
| 19 | Confronting the referee over his mug of vodka , I insisted that he call the game off as it was obvious the five Chamden lads were at a complete disadvantage against our full team . |
| 20 | He came in when the lads were at a low ebb somewhere on the ocean bed . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , because it came when the powerful modern methods were in a rudimentary state or were non-existent , Sugden 's work was very stimulating . |
| 22 | In the past three years subject has been associated with at least two men other than her husband in circumstances giving rise to a strong presumption that the relationships were of a sexual nature … |
| 23 | Two patients bled before surgery could be carried out and two further subjects were among the three who declined surgery . |
| 24 | I planted the polystyrene marker , scattered some flake maize , sweetcorn and broken lobs around it , then headed back to shore where my two rods were at the ready for casting out . |
| 25 | In patients with Zollinger-Ellison sydrome associated with MEN 1 , all cell densities were above the highest control value ; 53% of these patients had diffuse hyperplasia and 47% linear hperplasia . |
| 26 | My eyes were on the far side of the valley where the track was clear and unbroken to the next turn above the main gorge . |
| 27 | He had his finger up to his lips as a warning to Colley , but his eyes were on the stranger standing in the doorway . |
| 28 | While all eyes were on the majestic bird above them , Tallis had seen the fluttering movement of a more sinister flock , in the high trees around the river . |
| 29 | His eyes were on the numerous doors lining the corridor , and he could n't help wondering what went on behind those doors . |
| 30 | All eyes were on the old T'ang , noting his sudden frailty , the way his shoulders hunched forward at this latest calamity . |