Example sentences of "[adj] were all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silly , crazy antics like this were all part of being young . |
| 2 | And I must stress that these were all problem patients and if tumours were present they were recorded as so on that previous slide but they were often present in greatly reduced numbers . |
| 3 | But these were all women . |
| 4 | Yet these were all women who , ten years ago , would have called themselves liberated , independent , ambitious . |
| 5 | The paraphernalia of capitalism — the banks , mortgages , moneylenders , credit , exchange rates , inflation , Jewish competition , Polish labour — these were all things that German small business had learned to fear and mistrust as its economy had , without the buffer of empire , ridden the rollercoaster of boom and slump between the Franco-Prussian wars and the Great War . |
| 6 | These were all things that er you . |
| 7 | These were all forms which failed towards the end of the Cretaceous , except for the crocodilian which still live on , virtually unchanged , today . |
| 8 | Lugh said with amused tolerance that these were all fairy tales , but some of the soldiers said , were they indeed . |
| 9 | These were all advantages accruing to the defendants which can fairly be said to have been in consideration of their undertaking to pay the additional £10,300 . |
| 10 | Temperance-style mass meetings , schemes for moral reclamation and placing prostitutes in domestic service , the setting up of rescue homes — these were all part of the feminist alternative to medical regulation . |
| 11 | She still admired her education and artistic breadth but had come to realise that these were all Miss Hatherby could share with her . |
| 12 | The Gregorian calendar ; European officers to train her armed forces ; steam power for her industry ; central banking ; a new peerage specially created so as to make orthodox bicameral government possible by providing the material for an Upper House ; the codification of her law ; a representative system : these were all pieces of the structure of a new Japan which was at last crowned by alliance with one European power and victory in war over another ( see below , Ch. 8 ) . |
| 13 | These were all blows for the home side yet , with skipper John Rafferty providing the kind of leadership that is reserved for ‘ Boys Own ’ stories , Armagh suddenly hauled themselves out of the grave . |
| 14 | To suggest , however , that these were all wrinklies dusting off the cobwebs to have one final fling before a tranquil retirement would be a serious misapprehension . |
| 15 | But if these were all roles he played , they were necessary ones ; they protected a man who could be extremely shy and nervous in the company of other people . |
| 16 | one of the criticisms or possible criticisms of the M R C figures was that these were all patients who had been entered into superficial bladder cancer studies and they do n't therefore re represent all because people are selected to go into the trial and perhaps they are lower risk patients than others and in fact I believe that the recurrence rate in the M R C studies are lower than you would expect for er superficial bladder cancer in general . |
| 17 | It struck Nathan that these were all people who had been unable to get in . |
| 18 | I think the inde independent corroboration for actuaries was another important factor , custody confirmation by the auditors , veto of transfer of assets , independent auditors for pension funds , independent custodian arrangements , in-house investment management , you made some comments , co-ordination of the various regulators , co-ordination of the professional advisers , establishment of the Pension Tribunal , you know now as far as I was concerned on on my sort of looking through it , those were all recommendations that that you have made over your two years and I could n't really find any response to those in Good , and I think that 's er you know we we personally found that disappointing . |
| 19 | I think the inde independent corroboration for actuaries was another important factor , custody confirmation by the auditors , veto of transfer of assets , independent auditors for pension funds , independent custodian arrangements , in-house investment management , you made some comments , co-ordination or the various regulators , co-ordination of the professional advisors , establishment of a pension tribunal , you know , now as far as I was concerned or on my sort of looking through it , those were all recommendations that , that you 've made over your two years and I could n't really find any response to those in Good and I think that 's a you know we , we personally found that disappointing . |
| 20 | The individuals concerned were all members of the University of Iowa Writers ' Workshop , a group which , as Andreasen herself points out , is the oldest and most widely recognised creative teaching programme in the United States , having spawned such eminent authors as Robert Lowell , Kurt Vonnegut and Philip Roth . |
| 21 | CERTAIN PARTIES in pop seem to have the idea that the '70s were all glory . |
| 22 | The state of the sterling exchanges , the progress of the negotiations for financial aid , the estimates of the likely flow of oil-these were all matters on which I knew the Prime Minister would want the latest information . |
| 23 | She paused to sip her tea , and Ella , fuming at the delay , began to wonder if that were all Dotty would say . |
| 24 | If that were all Olson were saying , then it would be reasonable enough and would provide an interesting basis for historical study of the reasons for specific literacy practices in specific cultures . |
| 25 | Candidates in the legislative elections of May 1983 were all members of the Cameroon National Union which in 1985 was restructured and renamed the Cameroon People 's Democratic Movement . |
| 26 | The nights of December 17 , 18 and 19 were all raids of over nine hours duration . |