Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big hook which had once been part of a hanging scales was in the shape of the letter S , and sharpened to a point at both ends . |
| 2 | Mr Clarke said the working plans were for about five units with about 40 places each . |
| 3 | The most telling accounts were to be seen in the local press whose journalists had gone along on routine reporting assignments and tried to come to terms with the decidedly un-pop star look of the performers on stage . |
| 4 | It is an indication of how low Kylie 's emotional defences were during this crisis that — just for once — the intensely personal details of her life suddenly came gushing out , as if to exorcise some spirit that was within her . |
| 5 | The average height of a man was six feet , while seven-foot giants were by no means uncommon . |
| 6 | The denominations of bank notes rose ; banker 's drafts were often used to replace cash ; and by the end of Emor several million-sesterce notes were in circulation . |
| 7 | These extinct fishes were unlike their modern counterparts in possessing a dermal skeleton of minute scales and/or bony plates . |
| 8 | All surrendering Yugoslav armed groups were to be disarmed and interned pending a decision by Governments as to their disposal . |
| 9 | Because their nasal openings were on the top of their heads they could even continue to breathe if it became necessary ( see p. 115 ) to totally submerge . |
| 10 | The power of the various European States was in practice estimated by commentators largely in the crude terms of the extent of territory each possessed . |
| 11 | From our mooring at the pier , panting in the heat , we walked up a long steep , straight track , which led to the main village where accommodation in private houses was to be allocated ; there were no hotels or pensiones . |
| 12 | Professional aims and social and economic policies were in alignment with each other . |
| 13 | The normal recourse of exiled Spanish knights was to the nearest Moorish court , but Rodrigo made instead for the Kingdom of Barcelona . |
| 14 | She said one of her most memorable times was in 1924 , when Malcolm Muggeridge 's father was the candidate in her constituency . |
| 15 | The girls in the barrio chino of Spanish cities were of all ages , sizes and nationalities . |
| 16 | The terms of the agreement were as follows : that political prisoners were to be released and the relevant ordinances withdrawn ; that civil disobedience was to be stopped ; that the boycott of British goods would cease , though ‘ peaceful picketing ’ could continue ; that there would be no change in the salt laws , though people living by the sea could make some for personal consumption ; and that Congress was to be represented at future sessions of the Round Table conference , the agreed agenda being federation , ‘ Indian responsibility ’ , and ‘ reservations or safeguards in the interests of India for such matters as , for instance , defence ; external affairs ; the position of minorities ; the financial credit of India , and the discharge of obligations ’ . |
| 17 | Under the terms of the Pretoria Minute , all political prisoners were to be released by April 30 but the deadline had passed with more than 1,000 people with claims to political prisoner status still in custody , according to the group Lawyers for Human Rights . |
| 18 | AT LEAST 16 political prisoners were among about 50 detainees quietly released in April and May . |
| 19 | James Molyneaux and the Rev Ian Paisley have already set this deadline for the resumption of talks and even as their two parties vigorously fought each other in several constituencies , joint working groups were in session drawing up vital working papers for the forthcoming negotiations . |
| 20 | Although the short-term projections were in line with many of those produced by private-sector forecasts , those covering the longer term were considered somewhat optimistic by many economists . |
| 21 | She had walked in as a cookery demonstration for Korean housewives was under way . |
| 22 | She had walked in as a cookery demonstration for Korean housewives was under way . |
| 23 | Her ample talents were to be revealed by a prop man with a hook and fishing line , standing just out of shot . |
| 24 | The tall surfaces were of steel tube , fabric covered . |
| 25 | Saville ( 1957 ) observed that the bulk of rural out-migrants were aged 20 — 29 , while Jones ( 1965 ) found in a study of mid-Wales that 38 per cent of all migrants were aged less than 25 . |
| 26 | Electoral alliances were not favoured in the Party , and the radicalism of local Labour Parties was of a different character from Liberal radicalism . |
| 27 | Both the surviving brothers were to be linked with Gloucester in the 1470S , and Thomas ( together with Milewater ) was specifically described at the time of his death as Gloucester 's esquire . |
| 28 | Both the surviving brothers were to be linked with Gloucester in the 1470S , and Thomas ( together with Milewater ) was specifically described at the time of his death as Gloucester 's esquire . |
| 29 | As reported by other workers ( 11-15 ) , integration of exogenous sequences was by homologous recombination . |
| 30 | Their first tactic was to say they would take away the licence of any striker : their second was to say all striking drivers were in breach of contract and fire them . |