Example sentences of "[adj] were all [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silly , crazy antics like this were all part of being young . |
| 2 | Temperance-style mass meetings , schemes for moral reclamation and placing prostitutes in domestic service , the setting up of rescue homes — these were all part of the feminist alternative to medical regulation . |
| 3 | The Gregorian calendar ; European officers to train her armed forces ; steam power for her industry ; central banking ; a new peerage specially created so as to make orthodox bicameral government possible by providing the material for an Upper House ; the codification of her law ; a representative system : these were all pieces of the structure of a new Japan which was at last crowned by alliance with one European power and victory in war over another ( see below , Ch. 8 ) . |
| 4 | These were all blows for the home side yet , with skipper John Rafferty providing the kind of leadership that is reserved for ‘ Boys Own ’ stories , Armagh suddenly hauled themselves out of the grave . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The state of the sterling exchanges , the progress of the negotiations for financial aid , the estimates of the likely flow of oil-these were all matters on which I knew the Prime Minister would want the latest information . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The nights of December 17 , 18 and 19 were all raids of over nine hours duration . |