Example sentences of "were [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 13 years ago they were each given gold watches to mark 25 years service . |
| 2 | For example , ‘ The Observer , The Standard , The Globe , and The Pall Mall Gazette were each receiving aid from the Unionist funds , sometimes as much as £10,000 a year ’ in the 1910s . |
| 3 | ‘ In the early days few people were interested in outdoor pursuits indeed there were few outdoor activities anyway . |
| 4 | Climatology is similar to soil geography in that the incorporation of systems ideas were achieved by workers in disciplines other than physical geography but it is dissimilar in that there were few explicit statements of the systems approach . |
| 5 | The main occupation of the people of Kidderminster in those days was weaving , so there were few rich people amongst them . |
| 6 | There were few diplomatic encounters between England and France during this period at which he was not present . |
| 7 | To a certain extent yes , though as one of the few remaining radical bookshops there were few radical publishers to talk to . |
| 8 | There were few elderly people in the congregation as people moved away at retirement , so they lost only two through death . |
| 9 | By the 1770s or 1780s there were few European rulers who could feel the same unquestioning self-assurance as Louis XIV a century earlier . |
| 10 | Novices ‘ hung around ’ together but there were few strong ties between them . |
| 11 | By contrast , where there were few other communities exit was less easy and there was more heterogeneity . |
| 12 | There were few other sources of economic mobility or excitement in rural areas . |
| 13 | Its third great function , that of providing the capital for urban and industrial development itself , it could hardly help fulfilling in agrarian countries , where there were few other sources of revenue for governments and the rich ; though it might fulfil it inefficiently and inadequately . |
| 14 | However , the situation in Leeds was felt to reach deeper than this , and there were few other issues on which our questionnaires , interviews and observation between 1986 and 1990 yielded such widespread agreement or such strong expressions of anxiety , cynicism or disaffection . |
| 15 | This search was not difficult as there were few other items in there — a couple of jackets , a greatcoat and five or six pairs of trousers . |
| 16 | Surprisingly there were few other walkers around , just a couple of locals walking their dogs . |
| 17 | In the past , there were few other sports apart from football and swimming , and neither of these represented much of a challenge . |
| 18 | There were few new books added each year and I would think that a great number of volumes had been in the Library from its opening in 1905 . |
| 19 | There were few new arrivals at the embassy . |
| 20 | The Leger Gallery was founded in 1892 by Joseph Leger , whose activities were ‘ modest as a dealer in the period up to the end of the Great War and typical of an age in which there were few private clients and virtually no museum purchases ’ astonishing in view of the purchasing possibilities at the time . |
| 21 | By the 1920s the Swiss jokingly complained that they needed a passport to enter some parts of their country because British skiers had taken them over , and by 1921 there were few Alpine slopes , skiable with contemporary equipment , which had not been tried out by enthusiasts . |
| 22 | There were few official delegations , but small con-tingents were present from most groups . |
| 23 | In the early days , transport was difficult and expensive , markets too constrained to dispose of taxes in kind , and there were few outside sources of funding ( external borrowing , assets to be expropriated ) . |
| 24 | Soon her mental health began to deteriorate , and after 1835 there were few lucid intervals ; nevertheless she outlived her brother and died in 1855 . |
| 25 | A century ago there were few professional scientists — and most of them were medically qualified . |
| 26 | There were few French wars in which the de Castelnau clan had not distinguished itself ; there had been a General de Castelnau under the great Napoleon , and another had been selected by Louis Napoleon to accompany him into exile after the dismal capitulation at Sedan . |
| 27 | Perry 's account was written one year after Enfield began operations , so there were few clear indications of the impact of the approach on plant performance . |
| 28 | This meant that there were few domestic circles , particularly among the poorer classes , a factor which tended to increase social and political instability , as well as provoking problems of housing . |
| 29 | There were few visiting spectators and there was no singing or chanting . |
| 30 | Moreover , in its initial area , unlike in London , there were few original residents to displace and environmental improvements succeeded in granting access to large stretches of the waterfront formerly sealed off from the public . |