Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [adj] [prep] many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frontier disputes were common in many departments , but two illustrations will be sufficient . |
| 2 | Archer urged readers to leave matters in God 's hands , but he also predicted the imminent overthrow of earthly kings ; the revolutionary implications were obvious to many contemporaries , including the Fifth Monarchists . |
| 3 | Daphne discovered for instance , that baby elephants were unresponsive to many types of milk . |
| 4 | The farm buildings were empty for many years , but have now been restored . |
| 5 | The transmission at sites outside the brain by acetylcholine or by noradrenaline was established unequivocally ( see Chapters 6 and 12 ) and later it was established that both these substances were present at many sites inside the brain and spinal cord . |
| 6 | In reality , of course , the structure and contents of school curricula were subject to many constraints . |
| 7 | ‘ Times were hard for many people . |
| 8 | The results were evident at many levels . |
| 9 | But tensions between young and middle-aged adults were acute in many families . |