Example sentences of "[adj] [det] were " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yeah yeah those are fine those were comfortable |
| 32 | Haynes was eventually run out for 62 and left the field in tears thinking he had lost his team the match , but by then only three more were needed and Roberts was striking the ball well . |
| 33 | Two of the enemy ships , including the French flagship , were run on the rocks under full sail to escape capture , three more were burnt and two captured . |
| 34 | Before we 'd sailed out from Calabar more than a day , three more were born . |
| 35 | ‘ You can imagine the thoughts we were having knowing that one bomb had goine off and three more were likely to explode . |
| 36 | It did prove suitable for the Mitcham route and in due course three more were acquired . |
| 37 | While participating Law Lords agreed with one another more frequently than they disagreed , the authors of the survey list thirteen items between 1956 and 1967 where there was a substantial measure of disagreement and of these several were not matters of technical law . |
| 38 | Following from this the aim was that the project should collaborate with existing service-providers in order to ensure that there was no overlap or competition with others but that all were working together for the good of the client ; and that the project would , where necessary , coordinate the services available to each client and thus ensure an appropriate and suitably balanced package of care for that person . |
| 39 | Equally , I suspect a good few were left with an uneasy feeling in the pit of their stomachs . |
| 40 | as if all this were n't reason enough , there 's always the environment . |
| 41 | as if all this were not enough , schools have started managing their own financial affairs . |
| 42 | Informed sources in the Caribbean thought it likely that the political maneouvrings behind all this were by way of a reprisal for a report by Lord Avebury criticizing Forbes Burnham 's ruling party for election-rigging . |
| 43 | If all this were laid on with a trowel , the reader 's patience would quickly wear thin . |
| 44 | yet somehow the whole thing proceeds as though all this were the most natural thing in the world . |
| 45 | I remember when all this were nowt but fields , and people released simple horizontally scrolling blasters for the C64 . |
| 46 | She tried to look as though all this were normal . |
| 47 | Added to all this were wrangles over the Community Budget and the Common Agricultural Policy together with the protective responses which followed in the wake of the oil price recessions of the 1970s and growing foreign competition . |
| 48 | ‘ I was sure these were in there , ’ he said . |
| 49 | Now I am not entirely sure these were the exact names , but the point was they reminded Mr Smith and Mr Jones of the music hall act , Murphy , Saltman and Brigid the Cat , of which you may have heard . |
| 50 | All these were homespun recipes , comforting rather than refined . |
| 51 | To read and write , to borrow books and debate , to study the sciences and learn a foreign tongue — all these were so many steps not of economic advancement but of human dignity . |
| 52 | All these were heresies from a Marxist standpoint but then Marx had not foreseen the coming of nuclear war . |
| 53 | Praise you , ‘ All these were lovely ’ ; say , ‘ He loved . ’ |
| 54 | All these were recorded by Philip Miller in his Dictionary . |
| 55 | Her industrial codes , her laws , her ministries , her political and economic priorities , all these were in large measure adopted by the rest of Germany . |
| 56 | All these were investigated by MI5 , Special Branch and Scotland Yard . |
| 57 | All these were Rhoda 's pride and joy , and she would hardly spend two days away without them . |
| 58 | Not all these were imported to contribute to the breeding programme . |
| 59 | Crudely , the sense of blurred boundaries , of disrupted hierarchies , of disrespectful , intertextual playfulness , of the delight in superficiality and the wearing of cultural masks — all these were fundamental to the strategies of camp long before postmodernism lurched into view . |
| 60 | All these were Alec 's , I should add . |