Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] were [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The co-pilot held a West German Commercial Pilot Licence with instrument and instructor ratings , and had accumulated a total of 2,550 hours flying experience including fifty hours on the accident he had flown 120 hours , of which fifty hours were on the accident type . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | More than 120 copies were in the hands of various TV and broadcasting units by 4pm on Tuesday , the time The Sun says it got its copy . |
| 4 | During the ninety day period preceding the accident he had flown 140 hours , of which seventy-five hours were on the accident type . |
| 5 | Scotland coach Allan Hosie said the Pacific tour had been a great success considering eight Scots were on the British Lions tour and other players were not able to make the trip . |
| 6 | Not all memorable sightings were on the seaward side of the wall . |
| 7 | However , since not all antislavery public meetings were under the aegis of local societies or linked to their establishment , the fact that some abolitionist groups were chary of a ‘ populist ’ style of activity before the early 1830s does not exclude democratic implications from all antislavery usages of meetings . |
| 8 | The late Babylonian astronomers of the fourth and later centuries BC studied the motions of the sun and planets with great care and mathematical ingenuity , but their most detailed investigations were of the moon because the calendar was moon-based . |
| 9 | THOUSANDS of British holiday-makers were among a million people who fled Hurricane Andrew yesterday . |
| 10 | Administrator Denise Gilgallon said many exciting projects were in the pipeline . |
| 11 | In fact , although the Gaels were dispersed over many lands and made a great contribution in relation to their numbers , the mass of Scottish emigrants were from the lowlands , including Ayrshire . |
| 12 | Moreover , the lunar seismic signals were of a very different nature from those seen in the Earth , and this can be explained by the prevalence of a fragmented medium in the outer regions of the Moon . |
| 13 | Turned wooden vessels were amongst the grave-goods in the ship burial of Sutton Hoo mound 1 . |
| 14 | Leeds last 2 goals were in the last 8 minutes . |
| 15 | Two patients bled before surgery could be carried out and two further subjects were among the three who declined surgery . |
| 16 | Only a handful of British companies were of a size to contemplate it , and among them there existed a curious air of parochialism , of not wanting to venture into foreign-language recordings , or markets which were unfamiliar . |
| 17 | Further south , different areas were under the control of the Somali Democratic Movement ( ‘ S.D.M. ’ ) and Somalia Patriotic Movement ( ‘ S.P.M. ’ ) and the followers of Siad Barre . |
| 18 | 27 language teachers from 10 different countries were on the London coach . |
| 19 | Because the salvaged slates were of a size which is not readily obtainable today , the other roof-slope was reclad with new Welsh slates of conventional ‘ Countess ’ dimensions ; 500x250mm ( 20 x 10in ) . |
| 20 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 21 | These were plain plates , often very detailed anatomical studies in a large quarto format ; if coloured , as some plates were in the Linnean Society 's journal at the same time , the cost would be still higher . |
| 22 | Until the expansion of heavy industry in the West of Scotland in the latter part of the nineteenth century , most Scottish workers were in a low-wage economy , and trade-union organization was not well advanced . |
| 23 | Despite the weather , the Mayor , Aldermen , and other high officials were on the landing strip to meet ‘ Buck ’ Buchanan and his twin engined Fokker as the storm seemed to clear . |
| 24 | The Foreign Office was last night checking if any British workers were among the dead . |
| 25 | The better houses with two storeys and the public buildings were near the church . |
| 26 | The native slaves owned by Russians of all social classes were in the first place either prisoners-of-war or women and children captured after the men of a native community had been killed . |
| 27 | German universities were under the control of the state bureaucracy , which appointed the professors , but they had responded quickly to the specialization of the period with the creation of new chairs . |
| 28 | Admittedly , the weather was worse , English fortunes were at a low ebb , and the higher charges may well have deterred many people , especially the Caribbean fans ; but one suspects that some thousands of people simply could not face the prospect of yet another day almost entirely given over to fast bowling . |
| 29 | They found that field social workers were on the whole critical of the residential experience . |
| 30 | If old favourites were as a rule long lived , their status tended to be depressed as new substances advanced in esteem . |