Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This represented 6.8 per cent of the population , although 10,000,000 out of the total population of 56,100,000 were of recent foreign origin . |
| 2 | During the third millennium BC most axes were made of unalloyed copper and few were of arsenical copper , but by the middle of the third millennium arsenical copper gradually supplanted copper and this , in turn , was replaced by tin bronze and also some leaded tin bronze . |
| 3 | In 1989 , 780,000 children under 5 were receiving day care in the United Kingdom , only 34,000 of them in state day nurseries ( 50,000 were in private nurseries and the remainder with playgroups and child minders ) . |
| 4 | Some were on new bicycles , |
| 5 | Some were of definite dislike . |
| 6 | Some were of servile status and others free , although with the passage of time more and more secured their freedom ( Ch.4 ) , some might occupy barely enough land to sustain themselves and their families , while others accumulated substantial farms and became themselves employers of labour . |
| 7 | Some were of classical music , one a relaxation tape she used herself , and the rest an assortment belonging to the children . |
| 8 | Some were in hairy shirts and bare feet . |
| 9 | Some were in religious orders and acted as confessors , others were lay people . |
| 10 | He could see from the number of bells beside each door that they 'd nearly all been turned into flats now , or dentists ' surgeries , and some were in urgent need of renovation , but they still retained some of their former grandeur , or was it pretension ? |
| 11 | In 1984 only 17% of America 's landfills were privately owned ; by 1991 , over half were in private hands . |
| 12 | Half were in lone-parent families , a quarter in step-families and a quarter had been adopted or were living with grandparents or foster parents . |
| 13 | Of the Survey 's staff in Scotland , 12 were on active military service , Bailey and Richey being decorated for bravery . |
| 14 | Nearly a quarter of the forty were in unskilled factory jobs and over a third have done typing or general office work . |
| 15 | Bishops were involved in other law suits , but more often than not this was as unofficial peacemakers , following the gospel injunction , rather than as official justices . |
| 16 | This was at like bed time . |
| 17 | This was despite growing evidence that birth rates are falling in key third world states simply as a result of more widespread availability of contraceptives . |
| 18 | Sometimes this was with good reason . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know whether this was a fund-raising ploy or whether this was for real , ’ O'Boyle said , ‘ but I thought it was for real at the time . ’ |
| 20 | to represent , to represent , this was for voluntary services . |
| 21 | This was of narrow gauge ( 1' 11 ’ ) and opened in the same year , 1868 , to carry slates from the Hendre Ddu quarries and timber down to the railway . |
| 22 | Consequently , and this was of critical significance for all those who were concerned about the various aspects of the youth question , ‘ His education , which is the means whereby he becomes a citizen , is thus one of the State 's foremost concerns . ’ |
| 23 | Urban Tyneside still has mining employment and in the recent past this was of great significance . |
| 24 | This was of immense psychological importance . |
| 25 | At first sight this was like English countryside , but close to where you could see the baked cracked topsoil , the dead convoluted trees , bleached stones like animal skulls and huge pear cactus in bright yellow flower , close to the land was hard , dry and pitiless . |
| 26 | This was in apparent retaliation for the Swiss expulsion on March 22 of the Iranian consul-general in Geneva , Manouchar Tale Massouleh . |
| 27 | This was in striking contrast to the sceptical line of the Foreign Office , but cost him relatively little . |
| 28 | This was in early 1989 ; by the end of the year , after the pilot had been made and the EBU had given the enterprise the go-ahead , Ms Cann entered into negotiations with BBC Enterprises , responsible for distributing the series and for the merchandising rights . |
| 29 | As Evan Luard has remarked , this was in stark contrast to the thorough supervision provided by the League of Nations for the Saar plebiscite in 1935 when 1,000 neutral observers operated . |
| 30 | This was in stark contrast to the dross served up at Windsor Park amidst all the hype , in the recent match against Aston Villa . |