Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [was/were] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had about 164,000 regulars , of whom only some 80,000 were on more than a three-year engagement . |
| 2 | But to me , who had grown up without knowing want , the prosperity which accrued around them through the fifties and early sixties was of little account . |
| 3 | Well we always do , I mean if you 'd use all that was in that cupboard you 'd have half a dozen jumpers |
| 4 | The patrician planners of the late 1940s were in some retreat a decade later . |
| 5 | At the end of the training — a weekend seminar on the philosophy of Rebirthing — all 200 were in each other 's arms , many crying with happiness . |
| 6 | You ca n't imagine how bold that was in those days . |
| 7 | The three-bedroomed cottage was certainly rare in Dorothea 's time , but by the close of Queen Victoria 's reign the majority of those new-built were of this type . |
| 8 | And mother was the last that was in that hearse . |