Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [art] [noun sg] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The market is a dynamic one and it seems to prove that there was a latent demand for sea travel , but the prices or perhaps the product were not right . ’ |
| 2 | Indeed , in the first series of patients only 72% were bleeding from varices , haemostatic treatment was not uniform and only a minority were treated with sclerotherapy . |
| 3 | Many easterners are still not convinced by the virtues of unfettered markets , and only a handful were in any active sense dissenters under the previous regime . |
| 4 | In fact , petitions — which are scarcely known before 1272 — quickly became so numerous that by 1280 most were being redirected to the appropriate departments of royal government ( the exchequer and the chancery above all ) and only the remainder were dealt with by the king . |
| 5 | And once the crossroads were taken , then no British troops could reach the Prussians and thus the armies would be irrevocably split and the Emperor would have won his campaign . |
| 6 | However , since the private person has chosen to deal in commercial goods , ( and presumably has some expertise in relation to the subject matter of the contract ) such exclusion is more likely to be reasonable than if consumer goods were the subject matter of the contract , and hence the transaction were a consumer transaction governed by s 6(2) . |
| 7 | At the time of my visit about half the men had been convicted of heterosexual offences , mostly rape ; about a quarter for offences against children and about a quarter were the ‘ grasses ’ or informers . |
| 8 | Even before the war the sumpah pemuda or ‘ Youth Oath ’ had been a pledge of Indonesian unity , and now the pemuda were poised to become the standard bearers of national revolution . |
| 9 | But the country areas and particularly the West were overwhelmingly against the proposal . |
| 10 | He was a writer of the fidgety , costive kind whose works are long in the planning , and meticulous in the execution — only at the very end of a project , when the scaffolding , the foundations , the walls and roof and even the plaster were laid down , did spontaneity and delight take over , in the actual play of , play with , words themselves . |
| 11 | The will and even the whim were running out . |
| 12 | When Hannah was a child , running water meant the stream in the field and such things as electricity , the internal combustion engine and even the wireless were available only on another planet or so it must have seemed to the average resident of this remote and lovely but intensely deprived valley . |
| 13 | In this late period , some of the traditional motifs used in Minoan pottery decoration became stiff , straight and symmetrical ; the papyrus and even the octopus were organized into symmetrical shapes . |
| 14 | The Principal and other staff of the College and then the Polytechnic were playing a part in committees of the CNAA : in 1971 , for example , the Academic Board congratulated one of its members on being invited to chair the CNAA Physics Board . |
| 15 | Touring the huge THORP plant and Sellafield 's visitors ' centre took up one day and then the group were given a guided tour of nearby Muncaster Castle by Sir Patrick Gordon-Duff Pennington , whose family have lived in the historic castle for more than 300 years . |
| 16 | Second Coxswain O'Donnell manoeuvred the lifeboat up to the port bow of the casualty and a heaving line and then the tow were passed . |
| 17 | Numerous houses became schools , many more became hospitals and quite a number were acquired as reform schools . |
| 18 | The drawings and ultimately the painting were things I wanted to do for myself as well . |
| 19 | The farmsteads and hamlets thus created may have been used initially as temporary steadings , but eventually a number were permanently occupied . |
| 20 | But tonight the family were flying a union flag outside their home . |
| 21 | ( In fact , shares were not offered to the public , but instead the management were offered the chance to organise a management buyout . ) |