Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was particularly true in relation to many of the primaries immediately following the New Hampshire contest , which were due in Southern states where Duke 's support was expected to be strongest . |
| 2 | Ireland 's NCB and the third Finnish challenger , UBF , were due in last night . |
| 3 | These successes for the SPD and the Greens were due in large measure to declining public confidence in Kohl 's leadership , especially after tax increases to meet the costs of unification became inevitable despite election promises by Kohl that they would not be necessary [ see pp. 37904 ; 38297 ; 38109 ] . |
| 4 | ‘ Llandovery have great pace behind the scrum and Narberth were solid in all respects . |
| 5 | However , it also showed that only 10% of even our better companies were innovative in all areas of business . |
| 6 | The children were asleep in another room at the time , but the device hit a curtain and fell to the ground , where it exploded , blowing a hole in the floor . |
| 7 | This is true in the sense that Mesozoic sedimentary troughs and basins developed and were complete in these areas before the main opening of the North Atlantic . |
| 8 | Negotiations were also under way with Switzerland for a relaxation of that country 's ban on the 40-tonne lorries which were usual in all EC member states except the UK and Ireland , and Austria was also being asked to upgrade rail and road transit routes , particularly over the Brenner Pass between Innsbruck and the Italian border . |
| 9 | It would be sad if our own seats of learning were behind-hand in this confusion . |
| 10 | But tensions between young and middle-aged adults were acute in many families . |
| 11 | Mortgage facilities were generous and , although prices were low in national terms in 1982 — between £10 000 for single studio flats and £16 500 for maisonettes — they were not low for Tyneside . |
| 12 | Complaints about payment in kind or in truck were persistent in many parts of the country . |
| 13 | If the verderers ( or their heirs , if the verderers had died in the mean time ) failed to present their rolls to the judges on the first day of the Forest Eyre , or if their rolls were deficient in any material particular , they were liable to amercement . |
| 14 | The question of why islands were deficient in this way ( but not necessarily in the number of genera themselves ) would later be explained in terms of the limited opportunities for migration across ocean barriers . |
| 15 | Answers to these issues , however , require more longitudinal research designs and more rigorous forms of data collection than were possible in this study . |
| 16 | Regina Eddrizzi , a Party " co-facilitator " , said a large proportion of those registering for the party felt that their interests were unrepresented in mainstream politics . |
| 17 | ( Did the romanticists among you imagine that you would have been a member of the gentry if you were alive in this England of 1700 ? ) |
| 18 | Theses identified in the Laming list ( Appendix 4 ) appear to show that Leeds , Cambridge and St. Andrews Universities were tardy in this respect . |
| 19 | The trees were rich in autumnal glory , the golds , russets and copper contrasting strongly with the bottle-green of a belt of fir trees etched against the deep blue of the October sky . |
| 20 | ‘ In the early days few people were interested in outdoor pursuits indeed there were few outdoor activities anyway . |
| 21 | And we were interested in such people . |
| 22 | Many scientists were interested in other tissue extracts , several of which were known to affect blood vessels but were not identified until after 1945 . |
| 23 | Yeah , but all they were interested in that shop in |
| 24 | Most consultants viewed management budgeting with suspicion , as a vehicle for cutting their budgets , and few were interested in time-consuming management posts ( Harrison et al. |
| 25 | These were scarcely more analytic or explanatory in their approach but were interested in different kinds of data , and , as a result , developed different techniques for dealing with the problem of representativeness . |
| 26 | In some regions the lesser nobles , both titled and untitled , were interested in local concerns and in agricultural improvement : thus the Basque and Asturian lesser nobility were admirable local patriots , good landlords , influential in their districts . |
| 27 | Marx and Engels were interested in primitive cultures because they wanted to construct a general history and theory of society in order to explain the coming to be of capitalism . |
| 28 | This was to be precisely the starting assumption of positivist criminologists ( although they were interested in these differences not because they justified different levels of desert , but because they suggested different types of treatment ) . |
| 29 | Only some Suwaya were interested in this exercise of reconstruction , and the attempt to build up a rounded picture of life under Arab government exposed a certain impatience . |
| 30 | But the faults in the genes and the resultant proteins were different in each case : one producing an enzyme molecule with large structural changes , the other having a single amino acid change at a critical part of the molecule . |