Example sentences of "[ex0] were [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet there were spasmodic and disparate indications of development in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | There were black and white posters under glass , just a shade more indecent than allowed by the law . |
| 3 | there were strong and positive relationships between all staff . |
| 4 | We may not know exactly how evolution took place , but it is at least now clear that humanity evolved in some way from the higher apes ; that there were female and male of other species on the earth before the appearance of women and men . |
| 5 | There were one and a half million new listeners brought to Radio 4 by the News Network . |
| 6 | Many questions were asked on these papers by the Panel , and the other thing that I thought was very revealing , is one point that I 've been hammering away at , is the fact that they actually produced these figures for U K car registrations over the last 10 years , 10 years ago there were one and a half million , last year there were nearly 2 and a half million . |
| 7 | In 1910 there were 5,954 engagements of Chinese seamen on British foreign-going ships at British ports ; in 1912 there were 7,450 and in 1913 9,286 . |
| 8 | There were high-explosive and incendiary bombs of various types available , but no combination weapon . |
| 9 | In addition there were regional and county federations : by 1901 these had risen to thirty-six , with each centred on a major town to enable the stronger , urban Councils to help the weaker , rural ones . |
| 10 | In 1988 there were regional and national organisations promoting the interests of homosexual women and men in every country in Western Europe . |
| 11 | There were ecstatic and emotional scenes at the first of NME 's ‘ Viva Eight ’ gigs in conjunction with the Spastics Society at London 's Town & Country Club on Tuesday night , when headliner Nick Cave assembled the surviving members of his legendary former line-up for a short set that comprised the classics ‘ Dead Joe ’ , ‘ Wild World ’ and ‘ Nick The Stripper ’ . |
| 12 | With this general pattern , however , there were major and persistent differentials among social groups and among geographical regions which barely began to narrow before 1900 . |
| 13 | He told it , exactly as he had seen it , not concealing that there were curious and doubtful points in it which even witnessing could not make plain . |
| 14 | A hundred years later there were 90,000 and the town had a bad reputation for strikes . |
| 15 | There was a flourish of the saxophone , a twirl and a curtsy from Rose , a rise and a bow from Bernie and a scatter of faint applause from what seemed a very distant audience , and then there were Rose and Bernie almost on top of her , snarling at each other about something , going off into the darkened wings arguing at the top of their voices . |
| 16 | In between such anguished pleas , there were long and embarrassing silences while he simply stared at the floor . |
| 17 | There were five and he knew them all . |
| 18 | There were powerful and vociferous organizations of anti-Communist Russians in both countries , backed by considerable funds . |
| 19 | The Tôd cups were apparently offered as tribute from a Syrian king , perhaps the king of Byblos , which implies that there were complex and long-distance exchanges of goods in the twentieth century BC . |
| 20 | Fierce competition between the major tour operators in Britain , Germany and Scandinavia produced advantageous deals with airlines and hotels ; there were better and more economical aircraft , and less financial restrictions , all of which produced cheaper holidays . |
| 21 | Locke had thought that there were meaningless and trivial associations , but after Hartley 's philosophy had been reinterpreted by Wordsworth , this objection was refuted . |
| 22 | For the bureaucratic minded there was camp administration , and there were good and bad bureaucrats . |
| 23 | Up to 1980 , there were two and before that a number of riverside cottages at different times were shops . |
| 24 | Now there were two and after a few months there were four . |
| 25 | At one time there were two and a half thousand Iranians in town . |
| 26 | The argument was heard that even if , in the 1930s , there were other and perhaps more dangerous aggressors in the world , the latest imperialists had been inspired and encouraged by the deplorable yet seductive empire-building example set by the British . |
| 27 | Professor Stephen Schneider , of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research , stressed that there were other and better options available , such as strategies to reduce fossil fuel burning . |
| 28 | All it is , he had to help , there were fifteen and seventeen year olds , were n't they ? |
| 29 | I can remember quite vividly the old tramcars running there er day and night , with the last service leaving the outskirts of Edinburgh around about er twelve er eleven thirty and you g have about ten minutes or so to reach the depots which there were many and varied at this particular time . |
| 30 | Already there were hundreds and hundreds of new houses in the field . |