Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] were [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of patients with abnormal biological and nutritional indices before and after the trial were similar in both treatment groups ( Table III ) . |
| 2 | neither Judge Sirica nor a number of pressmen at the trial were satisfied by this story . |
| 3 | The facts in the case were similar to those in the instant case in that they involved complaints made against police officers in respect of arrests made by them at the Wapping disturbances in January 1987 . |
| 4 | He therefore found that the facts of the case were indistinguishable from those of Wyatt and Bull . |
| 5 | Mr Smith , said the latest problems affecting the industry were similar to those hitting the UK coal industry , which had suffered from cheap imports from eastern Europe . |
| 6 | When I had started to examine pensions , many in the industry were opposed to any change in SERPS and almost everyone was opposed to personal pensions . |
| 7 | If , in the jury 's opinion , the prosecution had proved beyond all doubt that the two men in the dock were responsible for this brave young constable 's demise , then they had but one course , and that was to bring a verdict of guilty of manslaughter . |
| 8 | A minority of the Committee were opposed to this proposal . |
| 9 | Success rates for estimating the current temperature of the room were similar to those shown above . |
| 10 | If the Politburo were unhappy with these arrangements , it would change them . |
| 11 | At any one time only two out of five surnames in the parish were those of this hard core of families , but four out of five of the total entries belonged to this group . |
| 12 | If the Government were serious about this matter , would they not remove some of the obstacles that now stand in the way of successful prosecutions under section 12 of the Theft Act ? |
| 13 | Others in the government were opposed to such a long period of withdrawal , favouring instead two to six years . |
| 14 | While the IFL were responsible for some of the outrage , BUF members were behind much of the increased conflict . |
| 15 | Not that the leaders of the Reformation were blind to this . |
| 16 | The bank were aware of this . |
| 17 | In other words , the audience were comfortable in this world of many identities . |
| 18 | Effectively Gregory indicates that a section of the aristocracy were dissatisfied with all three Merovingian kings , including Childebert in 582 . |
| 19 | Though he rightly acknowledges that large parts of the country were unaffected by this enclosure movement , his concentration on it gives us a somewhat unbalanced picture . |
| 20 | She knew other people in the company were responsible for that . |
| 21 | We , I used , erm the school were next to that so I , it was my job to go and , on you know the scrap |
| 22 | Most writers of the blueprint books of that time certainly did present the would-be solvers of their puzzles with little more than cut-out figures labelled " Millionaire " , " Unfaithful Wife , " " Devoted Secretary " , although of course the better writers of the time were far from such crudities . |
| 23 | We hold that land is capable of passing by way of donatio mortis causa and that the three general requirements for such a gift were satisfied in this case . |
| 24 | Beds were provided in churches and halls , two meals a day were available for all of us . |
| 25 | Of concern , a third of the patients in whom we reached a diagnosis were subject to some form of child abuse : suffocation in 18 and fabrication of the history and physiological data in seven . |