Example sentences of "[adj] were in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a recent report in the New York Times , Castelli has said that he wishes the archives to be fully accessible to the public and that if this were in any doubt he would donate them without charge to the Smithsonian Institute 's Archives of American Art . |
| 2 | Colour was generally white , a few are blue , green , salmon and purple and a few were in two colours . |
| 3 | In 1989 , 780,000 children under 5 were receiving day care in the United Kingdom , only 34,000 of them in state day nurseries ( 50,000 were in private nurseries and the remainder with playgroups and child minders ) . |
| 4 | Some were in hairy shirts and bare feet . |
| 5 | Some were in religious orders and acted as confessors , others were lay people . |
| 6 | He could see from the number of bells beside each door that they 'd nearly all been turned into flats now , or dentists ' surgeries , and some were in urgent need of renovation , but they still retained some of their former grandeur , or was it pretension ? |
| 7 | In 1984 only 17% of America 's landfills were privately owned ; by 1991 , over half were in private hands . |
| 8 | Half were in lone-parent families , a quarter in step-families and a quarter had been adopted or were living with grandparents or foster parents . |
| 9 | Nearly a quarter of the forty were in unskilled factory jobs and over a third have done typing or general office work . |
| 10 | By 1294 five-sixths of the castles within the duchy of Aquitaine were held by the nobility : thus , of 130 fortresses in the Agenais , only six were in ducal hands . |
| 11 | To get round this uncomfortable fact Fforde would have to argue either that all collectivist legislation emanated from governments of the left , or that all Conservative governments before 1979 were in some way not truly Conservative . |
| 12 | By 1913 there were 8,206 children over three in workhouses ( compared with 11,072 in 1906 ) ; 70,676 were in voluntary institutions in 1913 , compared with 58,991 in 1906 . |
| 13 | It has never , therefore , been a ‘ value-free ’ academic discipline , if such were in any event possible . |
| 14 | As none of the small libraries with establishments under 100 were in this group , this represents 43% of the libraries with establishments over 100 . |
| 15 | Most States developed during the century some system of compulsory service ; but all of these were in varying degrees incomplete , haphazard and inequitable . |
| 16 | Her industrial codes , her laws , her ministries , her political and economic priorities , all these were in large measure adopted by the rest of Germany . |
| 17 | Each member of the visiting party , which was chaired by Edwin Kerr , reported back to the group on separate initial discussions with the faculties these were in some disarray . |
| 18 | Yet , compared with the literary censorship of the sixties , these were in most areas miniscule . |
| 19 | Asking people to match the colours they could recall with colours on a standard colour chart revealed that only about half the dreams contained colour , and many of these were in pastel shades . |
| 20 | The patrician planners of the late 1940s were in some retreat a decade later . |
| 21 | SHARES in Abbey National were in plentiful supply as the building society raised £103m through the sale of 30m unclaimed shares . |
| 22 | In 1950 , five thousand were in African hands , and by 1954 the figure had reached thirty thousand . |
| 23 | In 1913 there were 11,000 post and telecommunications offices , of which only 3,000 were in rural localities . |
| 24 | All were in perfect condition , and the inscriptions seemed rather unusual : analysis failed to detect any gold at all , strongly suggesting the ingots were made from modern refined silver . |
| 25 | All were in this sense brethren and capable through redemption of striving to abolish sin . |
| 26 | And they had a shop on Vale as well and a shop in erm on , big s store on Road at but that was the Cop , independent Coop you see , like they all were in those days , the Coop , the Coop and so on , had a Coop , had a Coop , had a Coop at er , they 've all had three shops . |
| 27 | The majority of SSDs knew how many disabled people were in local authority institutions , but only two knew how many were in health-authority-run facilities , and five how many were in private and voluntary establishments . |
| 28 | Many were in mint condition and judging by the list sent in , a pretty comprehensive collection it is too , ranging from World War Two aircraft of the fighting powers to post-war helicopters and such giants as Convair 's B–36 . |
| 29 | How many were in this competiton ? |
| 30 | Many were in white-collar jobs , often in the public sector . |