Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] were all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His causal explanation relied on two factors : that primitive humans were all criminals ( even in terms of the definitions of crime operating in nineteenth-century Italy ! ) and that contemporary criminals ( or an important section of them ) were genetic throwbacks to these primitives . |
| 2 | The 100 consecutive patients were all Tanner stage 1 or 2 at the time of diagnosis . |
| 3 | You would think you would think from this that Tory MPs were all paragons of virtue . |
| 4 | Loss of memory and progressive senile dementia were all part of ‘ normal mental deterioration . ’ |
| 5 | Jim later learned that the three new residents were all Christians . |
| 6 | The 12-member commission was headed by Sihanouk but the 11 other members were all SOC officials . |