Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ireland 's NCB and the third Finnish challenger , UBF , were due in last night . |
| 2 | 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 ] . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It would be sad if our own seats of learning were behind-hand in this confusion . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Answers to these issues , however , require more longitudinal research designs and more rigorous forms of data collection than were possible in this study . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Theses identified in the Laming list ( Appendix 4 ) appear to show that Leeds , Cambridge and St. Andrews Universities were tardy in this respect . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Many scientists were interested in other tissue extracts , several of which were known to affect blood vessels but were not identified until after 1945 . |
| 12 | Yeah , but all they were interested in that shop in |
| 13 | 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. |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Labov ( 1966 ) reported that less than 2% of everyday speech were ungrammatical in this sense . |
| 17 | A note of caution , however , began to be sounded in Gorbachev 's warning that ‘ contradictions ’ were unavoidable in any kind of social development , including relations among the nationalities , and he acknowledged that there were still tendencies towards ‘ national isolation ’ and ‘ localism ’ . |
| 18 | In those moments when a light was a dream or a miracle , you were light in that darkness . |
| 19 | In both cases the combined efforts of state functionaries , professionals , and selected volunteers from the " community " were instrumental in shaping quasi-state institutions ( often called " quasi-autonomous , non-governmental organizations " , or " quangos " ) Furthermore , a discourse on " art " was a central factor for the work of the Newbolt Committee — in their attempt to formulate a strategy for national cultural unity . |
| 20 | On the other hand , since nearly 80 per cent of the nation were illiterate in early NEP , consisting of a disorganized and fragmented peasantry , it has often been assumed that the actions of this class have been both unreflective and ineffective . |
| 21 | The numbers withdrawn were similar in each treatment group . |
| 22 | These in turn were similar in political structure and function to pre-war pressure groups which had reflected popular anxiety against German competition . |
| 23 | The number of patients with abnormal biological and nutritional indices before and after the trial were similar in both treatment groups ( Table III ) . |
| 24 | She murmured in protest as the gentle touch turned into a force that raised emotions she had thought were impossible in any dream . |
| 25 | Lodging-house keepers were favourable in like manner ; and for the like reasons were not to be trusted . |
| 26 | Many of them were chosen by public meeting and Cropper and Sturge were prominent in encouraging organisation for the convention in the north and the West Country . |
| 27 | As far away as Java , at the great Borobudhur stupa , Naga images are well presented and show that the Nagas were prominent in Buddhist culture . |
| 28 | Of course , neither the ‘ industrial ’ nor the ‘ non-industrial ’ sectors were homogeneous in this respect . |
| 29 | Differences in the regression coefficients and the 95% confidence interval between adjusted and unadjusted analyses were minimal in each lung function measurement , underlining the consistency of the findings . |
| 30 | He had made enquiry in Cornwall to ascertain what dues were typical in that county and from the information he had gleaned he was able to show that Consolidated Mines paid one-twentyfourth ; Tresavean and South Roskear one-twentieth ; and North Roskear to two different Mineral Lords — one-twentieth and one-fifteenth . |