Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [was/were] [prep] [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Expeditions to the far-flung corners of the world in search of scientific novelties were in vogue that season as they had never been before . |
| 2 | Some 140 full-time workers are now resident and around 3,000 short-term workers were in Albania this summer . |
| 3 | Their own fascio-max man was on holiday that week or the problem would n't have arisen . |
| 4 | The general aim was to hand these problems over , if only at a conceptual level in the first instance , to the North and South Devon district management teams . |
| 5 | If the public wanted a system where general practitioners were on call all night then proper resources would have to be made available . |