Example sentences of "were [adj] [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all the ceaseless changes to designs were due to Ceauşescu 's indecision and interference on aesthetic grounds . |
| 2 | Some scientists were dissatisfied with Gould 's decision to target such an elitist market . |
| 3 | Although Bush won all of the Republican contests , his margins of victory were not sufficiently large either to destroy Buchanan 's candidacy , or to disguise the sizeable portion of Republicans who were dissatisfied with Bush 's record . |
| 4 | Both were crestfallen after Stevie 's erratic performance on the 17th . |
| 5 | This decision was criticised at the time as unnecessarily ambitious , both by visiting American engineers ( who were unused to Britain 's highly integrated planning approach ) and by the press , but the BEA 's experience was to prove the critics wrong . |
| 6 | So many people were interested in Sidacai 's fate that Alexei thought it was amazing they had not combined to petition Artai . |
| 7 | The Zionists were interested in Abdallah 's plans , partly because uniting Transjordan and Palestine might renew Zionist opportunities east of the Jordan . |
| 8 | Researchers who were interested in people 's views on blood sports could either hang around waiting for respondents spontaneously to bring the subject up , or they could ask directed questions about this on a structured questionnaire , taking care to ask everybody exactly the same question . |
| 9 | It also affirmed that closer ties with Egypt were dependent upon Egypt 's taking steps to sever ties with Israel . |
| 10 | She took the view that if one gave women the chance to do current affairs they might produce current affairs ' programmes that were different from men 's . |
| 11 | The second stage was to reinterpret difference so that women 's own activities would gain social value even though they were different from men 's ( ‘ radical ’ feminism ) . |
| 12 | He disliked it , when people were over-sensitive to Marjorie 's feelings . |
| 13 | Both members of the London Anti-Slavery committee and some of the Liverpool abolitionists who encountered him were doubtful about Clarkson 's attitudes and methods in gathering information from participants in the African slave trade . |
| 14 | None of these measures , of course , were popular with Labour 's political constituency . |
| 15 | Germans were resentful of France 's post-war attempts to keep them under close control , and it could not automatically be expected that they would agree to join European institutions . |
| 16 | Mickey Rourke was a possibility because his eyes were similar to Alan 's . |
| 17 | The aims were similar to Andreasen 's , but the investigators used a different research design . |
| 18 | Estimates of variation in DRS and SRS in sage grouse ( Centrocercus urophasianus ) show the same trend though estimates of variation in DRS and LRS were similar in McVey 's ( 1981 ) study of dragonflies . |
| 19 | Many were convinced of Thornton 's guilt and he was assailed in local and London newspapers . |
| 20 | The unspoken assumption which sustains these features is that they are easily defined and non-controversial , since all disputes were subject to Green 's gospel of duty , with its moral and being the classless ‘ common good ’ . |
| 21 | Even Imperial civil lists were subject to Parkinson 's Law . |
| 22 | Labour leaders were delighted with Major 's accession , because they suspected he would not have the nerve to ‘ cut and run ’ early . |
| 23 | In the nineteenth century , first Thomas Young demonstrated the wave character of light ; then Faraday 's brilliant experimental researches revealed the interlocking nature of electricity and magnetism ; finally the theoretical genius of Maxwell produced an understanding of the electromagnetic field whose oscillations were identifiable with Young 's light waves . |
| 24 | It was not merely that many people were dismayed by Labour 's tax plans : they also felt a wider and deeper sense of mistrust , that Labour 's numbers on revenue and spending simply did not add up . |
| 25 | Arabs were alarmed by Clinton 's pro-Israeli remarks and harsh attack on Syrian President Hafez al-Assad , he said . |
| 26 | The new men whom he introduced were central to Lanfranc 's plans . |
| 27 | Top American jockeys were horrified by Lester 's accident . |
| 28 | The Girls knew that their reputation for dancing as one was at stake , but because they were so well drilled and were accustomed to Finck 's ways , it worked brilliantly . |
| 29 | He stressed , however , that he had immediately sought to have the weapons removed on the grounds that they were inconsistent with Hungary 's policy of maintaining " balanced relations with both East and West " . |
| 30 | Tries by Underwood and Morris were backed-up by Webb 's boot as the English pack bolstered by Richards , came back in the second-half for a record victory . |