Example sentences of "[det] were [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However in all of these fields there was a still older tradition of the free market and elements of this were present in early strands of competition in both telecoms and radio ; these , however had often been eradicated by the mid-twentieth century . |
| 2 | And as for defence , ’ he went on , ‘ Britain would be defended by arms manufactured in Germany or France just as well as by arms manufactured in Britain , if this were necessary for good economic reasons . ’ |
| 3 | A few were similar to small stations in southern France , reflecting the control of North African railways by French companies like the Paris-Lyon-Marseille . |
| 4 | Most consultants viewed management budgeting with suspicion , as a vehicle for cutting their budgets , and few were interested in time-consuming management posts ( Harrison et al. |
| 5 | Some were impatient of disarmament talks which never resulted in the abandoning of a single weapon ; some were appalled by Civil Defence pamphlets which advocated spending your last four minutes on earth whitewashing your windows and by planners who talked blithely in terms of ‘ megadeaths ’ ; some were convinced that Armageddon would be next week : the immensely influential film of On the Beach showed the last survivors , in Melbourne , waiting for death in 1963 . |
| 6 | Further , although half were involved in general inspection few advisers wanted to spend more time on it ( again senior staff were the exception ) . |
| 7 | Isaac Newton ( 1642–1727 ) had demonstrated that natural phenomena were governed by universal laws ; these were capable of experimental proof , whereas the ‘ truths ’ derived from books , mystical visions or revelations were not only incapable of mathematical proof but were often contradictory . |
| 8 | These were similar to miniature flywheels and added extra momentum while spinning the thread . |
| 9 | The will , signed in January 1990 , listed all investors ' holdings : these were shown as loans made by the individuals on the basis that these were repayable at given notice or on Mr Young 's death . |
| 10 | Rape , drunkenness , muggings all were endemic in Victorian Whitby . |
| 11 | The Obscene Publications Act 1959 had exempted theatre , cinema , and broadcasting from the provisions of the Act , since all were subject to formal regulation by public authorities . |
| 12 | The leaders and the activists were no doubt also motivated by personal ambition and by a jealous regard for their own organizations but , at various crisis points , many were willing to subordinate their own ambitions to the greater goal of ‘ saving Ulster ’ . |
| 13 | Most were red-haired with thick beards and moustaches . |
| 14 | Both Iran and Iraq were Muslim countries , both were ripe for economic development , both had significant oil resources being exploited by foreign concessionaires ( they were at one stage to co-operate over the development of a small oilfield straddling the frontier near Kermanshah ) and both had restive Kurdish minorities . |
| 15 | Beryl had a friend , and both were partial to little nips of whisky … |
| 16 | Althusser 's rereading of Marx can thus be as usefully considered in the context of theories of the history of science as of structuralism ; a certain conflation between the two has been possible because both were opposed to humanistic and phenomenological theories of knowledge in general and to historicism in particular . |