Example sentences of "[conj] were [adj] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and if they were disproportion or , or were excess in that regard they would fall within eighty five , one . |
| 2 | The hopes with regard to smychka that were current in this period were proved utopian once again . |
| 3 | He was deeply influenced by German idealism and sought the kind of patterns in Nature that were typical of that school of thought . |
| 4 | The choir , and all about it , and the church I rather enjoyed because as as I were growing up most of the p people that came were the business people and the people that were conscientious towards that area , St. John 's . |
| 5 | In the heart of it was one of those still meres that were frequent in this part of the forest but because the yews had given way to giant beeches there was nothing dark about this lake which reflected the blue sky above and was a mirror of brightness . |
| 6 | ‘ In Africa , ’ she continues , ‘ it was the first time I was confronted by these women that were fearless with each other . |
| 7 | There could not , however , be prescriptions that were valid for all cases ; national policy was a ‘ continuous creation ’ , and what was necessary above all was a realistic and undogmatic approach , free of national chauvinism but receptive to legitimate expressions of national self-consciousness . |
| 8 | Darwin was anxious to show that even quite complex adaptations could have been built up gradually by natural selection from rudimentary origins that were common to all animals and plants . |
| 9 | Were there any teams that used to come and play at Walsall that were notorious in any way ? |
| 10 | Answers to these issues , however , require more longitudinal research designs and more rigorous forms of data collection than were possible in this study . |
| 11 | This is true in the sense that Mesozoic sedimentary troughs and basins developed and were complete in these areas before the main opening of the North Atlantic . |
| 12 | To achieve the latter objective , he proposed to close the Layton and Central Drive lines , which had single-track and were subject to many delays . |
| 13 | The movements were strongly influenced by the stylised Bugako players and were appropriate to each scene , but oddly enough the whole appeared too static , as if a series of japanese prints was being paraded before the audience . |
| 14 | In her mind , she often saw herself striding towards it , through it , out into the sunshine beyond to be part of that bright , busy , civilized world where people like Simon smiled , listened , and were polite to each other . |
| 15 | The extreme right had adopted a bellicose attitude and had denounced the Americans ; they had no faith in the Joint Commission and were opposed to any form of trusteeship . |
| 16 | It was held that the defendants owed a duty of care as designers and builders of the flat and were liable under that head . |
| 17 | All four prototypes used special tapes , and were incompatible with each other — as well as with every video system already on the market . |
| 18 | Charlton 's managerial duo of Alan Curbishley and Steve Gritt received the Second Division manager of the month award before the game and were satisfied with another promotion point . |
| 19 | His pathological researches and field studies appeared regularly in the form of official reports presented by Dr J. M. Cuningham , then sanitary commissioner with the government of India , and were concerned with such subjects as cholera , leprosy , ‘ oriental sore ’ , enteric fever , relapsing fever , and prison dietaries . |