Example sentences of "[adj] were [vb pp] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four stimuli were used : two of these were given very different labels , thus approximating to the A and B stimuli of Fig. 5.3 . |
| 2 | Solid silver is extremely heavy , so these were carried on ceremonial occasions by huge men from a special clan on the Indian side of the border . |
| 3 | The chances of these Communist tactics leading to the Third World War by 1953 were deemed too high for any complacency in Western capitals . |
| 4 | References to his synthesis sometimes give the impression that he achieved a complete fusion of Aristotelian with Christian doctrine , as if the two were rendered fully compatible . |
| 5 | So long as both the computer 's screen fonts and the printer or typesetter fonts were from the same source this caused no great problems but if the two were mixed then real trouble could occur . |
| 6 | Naturally neither the NSA nor GCHQ will discuss the subject since such telephone tapping is illegal but in 1976 the NSA 's Harvest computer system intercepted 75 million individual telephone conversations alone around the world , of which 1.8 million were considered sufficiently interesting to require further human analysis , although what happened to the information the NSA had collected and how it was shared and used remains a mystery . |