Example sentences of "were the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All Mr Handford heard , however , were the eerie sounds which seemed to be a faint moaning and chuckling coming from the nearby wood . |
| 2 | The long-term reasons were the perceived weaknesses of the existing structure of local government in relation to socio-economic geography , size of authorities , and complex division of powers . |
| 3 | Certainly then in early modern England the ways of conceptualizing sexuality and sexual deviance were fundamentally different from ours , as were the perceived relations between sexuality and subjectivity . |
| 4 | The results were beneficent , but less well handled were the reverse migration procedures ordered by Pomgol on 15 March 1922 . |
| 5 | All three were the predestined victims of capitalism , though , as we have seen , neither the peasantry nor the country-based social hierarchy which rested on its backs were in any immediate danger of collapse . |
| 6 | It appears that the principle species involved were the Thaidid Thais haemastoma and the Muricids Bolinus brandaris , B. cornutus and Phyllonotus trunculus . |
| 7 | The real giants were the lumbering sauropods ( Diplodocus , Brachiosaurus , etc. ) , four-legged dinosaurs , with enormously long necks only matched by equally long tails . |
| 8 | The problem is that its counts and measurements are almost the same as those of melanurum , and , as taxonomists ( at least until recently ) worked only on dead , usually discoloured preserved specimens , it was counts and measurements that were the critical factors . |
| 9 | But the notion that these raw recruits were the critical ingredient is open to doubt . |
| 10 | These were the critical years , but it is arguable that this was the critical place . |
| 11 | Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference . |
| 12 | Those were the dangerous moments . |
| 13 | Outside were the familiar roofs and flats , the chimneys and aerials . |
| 14 | The earliest risers over a frostbound Swindon yesterday , were the hot air balloonists . |
| 15 | But what were the revolutionary contents of the Speciale ? |
| 16 | And there , across a field filled with long grass and butterflies , were the Syrian tanks . |
| 17 | Mr Jiri Dienstbier , the Forum spokesman , responded coolly to the appointment of the new Prime Minister , Mr Marian Calfa , and said that were the Communist Mr Calfa to remain in office the president would have to be a non-Communist . |
| 18 | Similarly working class audiences were the heaviest listeners to BBC Radio 1 and 2 and ILR stations , and middle class listeners made up two-thirds of the audience for BBC Radio 3 and 4 . |
| 19 | I tried to guess which of the women were the Russian wives of men stationed here and which were Latvian girls . |
| 20 | Further disputes over pitch-covering and residential qualifications were the final nails in the coffin of Fender 's captaincy aspirations . |
| 21 | Students were the final element to join the new cafe society . |
| 22 | My Lord it is pleaded as being a matter of er common practice amongst solicitors in this kind of situation er for such advice to be given and my Lord er if you turn to the folio of their particulars erm which were given I think it 's the final book , what are called the voluntary further and better particulars which in fact were the final particulars er given towards the end of the bundle of documents . |
| 23 | The pressures of rising rent and the problem of filling a large shop with goods of high quality were the final straws . |
| 24 | Of the three who offered advice to the King , Samuel was the only one who favoured a National Government ( and then only with qualifications ) were the Labour government to collapse . |
| 25 | I understand why the hon. Gentleman may be frothing at the mouth at the thought that , after all the years that he has spent preparing as shadow arts Minister , were the Labour party to be elected — horror of horrors — it would not be him but Melvyn ’ Time to Dance ’ Bragg who would be Labour 's arts Minister . |
| 26 | They would be delayed , if not cancelled , were the Labour party to take control . |
| 27 | Were the Labour party to have the trust of its people , it could legislate for every item in the social chapter tomorrow . |
| 28 | There were the predictable problems with sanitary arrangements . |
| 29 | Coleridge 's themes were the predictable ones : the rift with Southey , the folly of the world , his love for Sara , and Pantisocracy . |
| 30 | He knew that these were the essential ingredients of political and economic stability in Poland and that two of them — political opposition and a free press — were the only real guarantees against Government abuse of power . |