Example sentences of "[noun pl] were use the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Yes , oh aye I Yes , we You had to measure , and in those days , the councils were grouped in what they called Assessment Committee Areas , and each were wor making sure the other areas were using the same sort of basis .
2 Little came of this but in the next decade , the 1790s , the French armies were to use the large-scale production of hydrogen by decomposition to some effect when balloons first found military use .
3 More bombs were used the following year , and it was this , according to MI5 documents obtained by the IRA , that prompted efforts to recruit informants among Irish people in Europe .
4 Already some issues were using the four-speaker technique to provide a spurious ‘ wrap-around ’ effect , however .
5 Later French Huguenots were to use the Dutch embassy in Paris in much the same way .
6 When the Muslim– Druze revolt against Chamoun began with fierce street fighting in Beirut , the Christians noted that the Muslims were using the same pan-Arab rhetoric as Nasser .
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