Example sentences of "were [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , such is trust , they went on seeing it after it had gone , for by now they were used to the constant and bewildering ebb and flow of Stevenson money . |
| 2 | they were used to an authoritarian er regime . |
| 3 | In winter the bare trees were florid with the purple and grey of pigeons , and in spring we buried dead baby sparrows under the soapsuds of fallen blossom . |
| 4 | Stockton scored an opportunist try through Paul Beattie , while Mark Graham and Graeme Docherty were outstanding in a much-improved performance . |
| 5 | Stockton scored an opportunist try through Paul Beattie , while Mark Graham and Graeme Docherty were outstanding in a much-improved performance . |
| 6 | Among the less experienced , youngsters like Serguei Molchanov , a prop , and the Georgian full-back Nougzar Dsagnidze were outstanding in the 1988 Students ' World Cup . |
| 7 | Since at heart these men were friendly to the Slav cause , Allied propaganda claimed that those who were posted to the east were always stationed in the most exposed positions , and at the slightest sign of wavering , or what might be termed ‘ treason ’ , were shot at from the rear . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was not I but the other riders who were hell-bent on the wrong route . |
| 9 | It was raining outside and the gusts of cold , damp air were refreshing after the stale smokiness of the room . |
| 10 | But he insisted that they were due for a cold meal yesterday . |
| 11 | London Transport held very strong views in favour of standardization , so when in 1936 , the ex-Croydon cars were due for an annual overhaul and relicensing , they were withdrawn one at a time and replaced by E/1 Class cars between October 1936 and January 1937 . |
| 12 | Good heavens , did they think her ‘ moods ’ were due to a mere period , or to a growing bust measurement ? |
| 13 | Moreover , the bill purchases were due to a large extent to overfunding of the PSBR through sales of gilts so the Bank was effectively carrying out a maturity transformation in the market and one which , at times , entailed a " cost " ( as bill yields were lower than gilt yields ) . |
| 14 | Years later she told me that she did not like that book , and I do not know if that were due to a momentary impatience with it or if ( as I hope it was not ) it was a permanent feeling of dissatisfaction , for it seems to me so beautiful . |
| 15 | Limitations to the initial work of the National Council for Vocational Qualifications were due to an insufficient timescale and finance — the principles were right , and they are now scheduled to take effect in 1993 . |
| 16 | The last remark is odd : her half-brother Charles certainly killed himself by jumping off a bridge , and it is unlikely that the deaths of her sisters ‘ Topsy ’ and ‘ Baby ’ were due to an accidental overdose of veronal . |
| 17 | The diabetics chosen for this study were free of clinical evidence of vascular disease , which suggests that the platelet abnormalities in this diabetic group were due to the diabetic state ( Jones et al , 1985 ) . |
| 18 | It has been suggested that the different findings in these studies were due to the different techniques applied to the collection of blood samples . |
| 19 | The military 's claim that the escalating protests were due to the growing presence of " seditious " forces were denied by the Catholic Church and the trade unions , which claimed that this was part of a government strategy to weaken a popular opposition movement . |
| 20 | We were due on a Viennese trolley car — or tram — and had only 15 minutes to shower and get ready . |
| 21 | On 3 March 1987 the originating summons was amended by adding the seventh and eighth plaintiffs , and on 19 March 1987 it was further amended to seek accounts of all transactions entered into , and of all dealings with the property of the plaintiffs by the first defendant , and of all moneys received by or payment made by the first defendant or by the second or third defendants , and an inquiry whether any sums were due from the first defendant to the plaintiffs . |
| 22 | If you do n't run the status report until the twentieth and you make , you , you do reversals between the fifteenth and the twentieth the status report will take those into account if they 're affecting premiums that were due before the fifteenth . |
| 23 | The most progressive , self-sacrificing and heroic among them were receptive to the advanced ideas drawn from the West or propagated by Herzen and other leading democrats . |
| 24 | Even as he studied the pages of his comic , his ears and senses were alert to the smallest sounds coming from the rest of the house . |
| 25 | ‘ Not having any trouble with your eyes , are you ? ’ he asked smoothly as he rinsed off the reagent strip , but Belinda saw that his own eyes were alert beneath the veiling fringe of sooty lashes . |
| 26 | Her throat still stung with the rasp of knife-keen wind , her eyes were sore with the dry suck of the freezing night . |
| 27 | A study at the unit was carried out on 80 women under the age of 40 who were pregnant for the first time . |
| 28 | If the House were to decide at a later stage to enter a single currency , it would be , first , because it had decided that the economic convergence conditions in Europe were right for a single currency to be beneficial to this country . |
| 29 | In a recent article in Current Anthropology , one palaeontologist went even further and stated that the molecular anthropologists were right for the wrong reasons , while the palaeontologists were wrong for the right reasons . |
| 30 | At a team meeting on the night before the Bombay Test , tour skipper Gower soft-talked his team into playing even though several were upset by the no-nonsense attitude of manager Tony Brown , who angrily offered to send home anyone who disagreed . |