Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun pl] were [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , small towns and rural areas were consistent gainers , with remoter rural areas increasing their rates of population growth between the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 2 | By 1985 , average urban concentrations were 38 ug/m³ ; and rural concentrations were 28 ug/m³ ; . |
| 3 | Early efforts to become involved in multi-agency approaches to crime and associated topics were painful experiences … we wanted to maintain the lead in every forum , to be the gatekeepers of power and have the right of veto if decisons were made which did not suit us . ’ |
| 4 | It led past the scarred brown door of the Bogeyman 's room , where strange noises and unpleasant smells were constant reminders of danger . |
| 5 | One hundred and twenty six men were homosexual or bisexual , five women and 21 men were intravenous drug abusers , one woman and three men had received blood transfusions ; in 30 men no risk factor could be ascertained . |
| 6 | William Titford 's elder and younger brothers were each well-travelled in their own ways : Benjamin James had settled in Somerset soon after his brief spell in Cheltenham , and Charles Frederick was to see more of the world than almost any Titford before or since . |
| 7 | But in Italy at the same time both foreign and native composers were developing forms of secular polyphony which later in the century were to spread over most of Europe and bring about a remarkable expansion of music 's technical resources in the regions of harmony and tonality and in emotional and pictorial expressiveness . |
| 8 | The manufacture of coffin furniture and soft furnishings were independent trades ; here was a golden opportunity for the business to effect a take-over , but they did not . |
| 9 | It is very likely that a high proportion of the clergy in the tenth and eleventh centuries were hereditary clergymen . |
| 10 | The Radical and Radical-Socialist parties were petit-bourgeois parties largely avant la lettre . |
| 11 | He was an experienced womaniser ; word-games and double entendres were second nature to him . |
| 12 | Professional and managerial households were four times as likely to inherit as were the least skilled or the unemployed . |
| 13 | JAGUAR and General Motors were last night locked in crucial talks over a deal which would safeguard the luxury car maker from being taken over by the rival US motor giant Ford . |
| 14 | The principal family , Coker , were well-known Parliamentarians and several members were senior officers in the Cromwellian forces . |
| 15 | The book claimed that cancer and other deformities were mistaken wills , were new organs to meet new needs dreamed up in the deep unconscious , and that therefore they should be treated not with surgery but with interest and affection — humanity was limiting its potential by cutting out the tumours , blasting the cells . |
| 16 | ‘ Your Grace , I and two others were some way behind , bringing up the spare horses , and came on the scene only in time to see Sir Edmund at grips , and the battle all but done . |
| 17 | They found that more than six out of 10 children with emotional and behavioural problems were regular smokers . |
| 18 | Most of his friends and close supporters were Free Presbyterians . |
| 19 | By 1986 over sixty agricultural professionals and 400 farmers were active members of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees ( PARCs ) , seeking strategies for overcoming such problems through research and education , pest control campaigns , the supply of competitively priced vegetable and olive tree seedlings , and most important of all , research into the characteristics of marketing . |
| 20 | Outside some 450 federal agents and local police were last night still surrounding the compound , backed by armoured vehicles and the firepower of a small army . |
| 21 | Tree swallows had just arrived in Hobart on their annual migrations , and were ‘ particularly numerous in the streets ’ ; wood swallows dived among the paddocks and pasturelands on nearby estates ; fire-tailed finches and flame-breasted robins were busy nest-building in gardens and orchards — ‘ I have even taken its nest ’ , remarked Gould about the latter , ‘ from a shelving bank in the streets of Hobart' — while dusky robins perched on garden railings . |