Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] were [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , though the various criminal justice agencies were seen as differentially culpable with regard to racial discrimination , racially prejudiced attitudes were thought to be widespread . |
| 2 | But at the same time , it is clear that as soon as the war was over the purely economic contradictions were bound to be excessively aggravated . |
| 3 | People lacking supportive relationships were expected to be prone to depression whether or not they experienced major difficulties or threatening events . |
| 4 | A lot of different disciplines were going to be dragged in . |
| 5 | Some rules were meant to be broken . |
| 6 | The Cornish giants were reputed to be a stupid and murderous bunch , fond of hurling boulders around the countryside . |
| 7 | Lots of suggestions , old cinemas were going to be used as a sort of permanent blues club . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , shit , ’ I then said , because that was how I felt and because I suddenly knew that the next few minutes were going to be extraordinarily difficult . |
| 9 | If , however , further safeguards were thought to be necessary , it would be open to the Director to reserve such decisions to himself . |
| 10 | In other species such as S.cerevisiae ( 6 ) , S.pombe ( 7 ) or Dictyostelium ( 8 ) , the repeated units were found to be more heterogeneous . |
| 11 | Serbian units were said to be conducting house-to-house searches last night after ordering Muslims and Croats to surrender their weapons . |
| 12 | These magnetic anomalies were found to be hundreds of kilometres long and typically 20–30 km across , and it initially seemed that they were caused by alternating bands of weakly and strongly magnetized rocks . |
| 13 | No German warships were thought to be in the immediate area and only some four squadrons of fighters and bombers — an estimated 37 planes — were flying from Herdia , Stavanger , and Trondheim . |
| 14 | Its civil jurisdiction was encroached upon , as contracts made and wrongs done abroad or at sea were brought within the jurisdiction of the ordinary courts by fictions , such as the pretence that such towns as Bordeaux were within the area of , say , Cheapside , so that many international commercial transactions were considered to be purely municipal . |
| 15 | High-ranking officials were said to be rigging privatization to their own advantage , using their influence in local administrations . |
| 16 | Some delegates were said to be angry at Kuwait 's intransigence , including officials from Nigeria who said their country needed oil revenues as much as any other because of difficult economic problems . |
| 17 | The two narrative conditions were expected to be of intermediate difficulty with the after-theme condition being easier than the no-theme . |
| 18 | In 1985 regulations were held to be void as having no statutory authority where their purpose was to force able-bodied young people who lived on supplementary benefit to move from one area to another in search of employment . |
| 19 | Further details were expected to be finalized in the coming weeks and would be submitted to the Greek parliament for ratification . |
| 20 | Popular activists were said to be resentful of the army takeover , expressing fears that the achievement of multiparty democracy might be further delayed . |
| 21 | In addition , thromboxane B 2 levels were found to be elevated in the peripheral blood of patients with Prinzmetal angina ( Lewy et al , 1979 ; Robertson et al , 1981 ) and in coronary sinus blood of patients with unstable angina ( Hirsh et al , 1981 ) . |
| 22 | Some mediums were found to be fraudulent but there seemed to be genuine phenomena underlying the whole business ; and it seemed to be the job of earnest doubters to come to grips with it despite its general slipperiness . |
| 23 | Although the Cabinet was composed of members of the ruling Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea ( PDGE ) , some members were thought to be close to the opposition . |
| 24 | No doubt shorter journeys were deemed to be within the pocket of the serviceman of woman . |
| 25 | BRITISH tourists were feared to be among the victims of the disaster floods in Pakistan and India as the death toll neared 3,000 last night . |
| 26 | Some underwriters were said to be selling to hedge their commitment . |
| 27 | Some letters were found to be more often confused with other letters and these letters were deemed to share similar features E G , B and P were often confused whereas B and X were n't so you 'd be flashing either a series sequence of letters up , some of which shared features , some of which did n't , or we thought shared features , and then we saw whether they were confused or not , and this was taken to support the idea that features were extracted from the input , or that 's how we constructed the letters or characters that we were perceiving . |
| 28 | Military commissions were in demand in Scotland , and Scottish politicians were expected to be able to satisfy their friends , and with an almost constant 25 per cent of the officer corps drawn from Scotland they clearly succeeded to an astonishing degree in obtaining positions for their countrymen . |
| 29 | Many were found to be dead and the total casualties were reported to be about a hundred . |
| 30 | That is obviously the summary of a long story of consistent dedication , overlaid with constant hesitation and changings of mind and alternations about what the actual plans were going to be about the work that would be left to aftertimes . |