Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] were [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capetian claims to jurisdiction were therefore certainly experienced in Béarn and Bigorre after 1285 , but it can not be argued that either Gaston VII or Roger-Bernard III were willing instruments of French royal sovereignty . |
| 2 | The books concerned were duplicate copies of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century books , even though not all of Russia 's principal libraries contained copies of these books . |
| 3 | Take , for instance , Michael Lynagh 's courageous decision in Farr-Jones ' absence in the Wallabies ' quarter-final clash with Ireland at Lansdowne Road when the fighting Irish were three points up with only minutes remaining . |
| 4 | Overshadowing December 1992 were three years of recession ; unemployment , and the fear of unemployment , as the numbers edged towards three million ; and the terrorist activities of the IRA , which succeeded in keeping many people out of city centres . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Contrary to modem popular opinion these were splendid ships with excellent accommodation and many modern conveniences for both crew and passengers . |
| 7 | Use the wiring loom fitted to the later IIa These were negative earth and will fit your vehicle As this has a dynamo system replace with an alternator Connect the two A terminal wires to the F terminal wire on the regulator box wiring insulate the other wires and tape up Connect the small terminal wire on the loom to the warning |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The growth areas over the period 1971–84 were financial services , with an increase of 11 000 jobs ( more than twice the 1971 figures ) , and distribution , etc. , with an increase of 12000 jobs , or an increase of a third . |
| 10 | Having rejected collective security and , with it , the great majority of left and liberal opinion , the only potential allies available were Tory isolationists and right-wing appeasers . |
| 11 | research students at work were being employed by 61 different employing organisations 34 were industrial/commercial organisations and 27 were educational . |
| 12 | It was only a small gathering in a studio , but in wartime those were great occasions . |
| 13 | The left-hand panel of Fig. 3.10 ( p. 92 ) contains an example of a study of the S1-S2 procedure ( by Honey and Hall 1988 ) in which the stimuli 1120 were distinctive flavours . |
| 14 | For the political adventurers and profiteering fat- cats these were palmy days — indeed corruption and political fraud were so rife that the Trinidadian ‘ bobol'or fraud became a byword in the political life of the Caribbean . |
| 15 | For Flavia these were social days . |
| 16 | In social terms these were tough times and certainly there seemed to be a new excitement in the movies . |
| 17 | Among 43 people reported killed during an LTTE ambush in the eastern district of Amparai on Nov. 3 were 23 servicemen . |
| 18 | Total assets rose by £4.1 billion to £62 billion , of which £52.2 billion were commercial assets , mainly residential mortgages . |
| 19 | The study estimated that of the revised total 300,000 were Polish Jews and 145,000 were Polish non-Jews . |
| 20 | The Maiden girls did n't know each other before the race but by the end many were firm friends . |
| 21 | Each cabin had two curtained windows ; the curtains on number fifteen were blind eyes . |
| 22 | But how many of the Guildford Four were driving ambulances in London yesterday ? ’ |
| 23 | The local hospital was offering nursing training courses ; however , the first year these were available Val applied too late , so she became a nursing auxiliary instead . |