Example sentences of "[coord] were [adj] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The senior people — particularly Self — had an extraordinarily wide span of responsibilities , and were involved in multiple capacities in committee work . |
| 2 | Protesters , demanding that the party give up these assets , demonstrated outside the congress , and were involved in violent clashes with police . |
| 3 | The unions had almost no influence on the factory floor and were ineffective in collective bargaining . |
| 4 | Such floated meadows produced early grass for sheep , especially young lambs , and were frost-free in early spring , as the running water was not as cold as the grass itself . |
| 5 | Sexual intrigues were almost part of the culture of high politics , and were commonplace in big Whig and Tory families in the early nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Russians and Tatars , it was found , were distributed in a broadly similar manner in the occupational hierarchy , received approximately the same remuneration , and were active in socio-political life in virtually the same proportions . |
| 7 | In the summer of 1312 papal emissaries arrived in London to make peace between the king and his barons but their overtures were quickly rejected by the barons who , as one chronicler put it , ‘ had no notion of letters , but were skilled in military affairs and the use of arms ’ and were quite unwilling ‘ to discuss their own deeds or business of the realm with any foreigner or alien ’ . |
| 8 | Patients B and E were positive in the test but were negative in bacterial culture examination of the sample . |
| 9 | These were scarcely more analytic or explanatory in their approach but were interested in different kinds of data , and , as a result , developed different techniques for dealing with the problem of representativeness . |