Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although justified on the basis that the social services departments , and by implication the staff , were responsible for users ' safety during opening hours , this policy represented an explicit denial of users ' freedom . |
| 2 | FLN deputies , elected in 1987 when Algeria was effectively a single-party state , were concerned about voters ' reactions to resulting price rises . |
| 3 | There was a lot of enjoyment to be had , but this was tempered by the anxieties and fears that many had felt during earlier stages , when girls were worrying about parents ' reactions , or trying to conceal the pregnancy . |
| 4 | The difficulties encountered in treating vasculitic ulcers were referred to by four nurses , and of the ‘ steroid skin ’ by a further two , while two recognised their failure to heal ulcers was due to patients ' unstable diabetes , and one called for a clinical specialist with specific knowledge of leg ulcers to advise on difficult cases . |
| 5 | The agreement has now been reached and erm that is provided for in the amount the Council has for pay and price increases , and when we yesterday the Council agreed to cash limit it 's inflationary provision that was exclusive of teachers ' and lecturers ' pay , so that is secured , the cost is secured . |
| 6 | The Labour leadership was sceptical about workers ' control , indeed Cripps is reported as having said ‘ I think it would be almost impossible to have worker-controlled industry in Britain even if it were on the whole desirable ’ ( Coates & Topham , 1975 , p. 60 ) . |
| 7 | Our collections would be a random sample from the wild cocoa population , to be handed over to cocoa breeders who could screen them for genes that would be useful under their own conditions : a genotype that was susceptible to witches ' broom disease might still be useful for other reasons to farmers in West Africa , where this disease does not occur . |
| 8 | Di was worried about smokers ' health , but there are definitely OTHER benefits from kicking the weed . |
| 9 | The Ministry of Finance was sympathetic to employers ' insistence that their authority should not be undermined . |