Example sentences of "and [adj] were [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These districts were primarily urban and working class and eleven were textile areas . |
| 2 | In September 1968 the CNAA had approved a total of 213 courses , of which 175 were undergraduate courses and 12 were MSc courses . |
| 3 | A responsible , hard-working and disciplined work-force was required for the exacting demands of agriculture ; and these were character traits of such importance and of such a basic nature that their instilling could not be left entirely until puberty and initiation . |
| 4 | They were small and neat and many were flower studies . |
| 5 | Using data supplied by local police forces and government ministries , the report stated that ( i ) 4,611 children and adolescents had died from violence over the previous three years , more than 50 per cent of them shot and the rest killed by stabbing , beating , poisoning or strangling ; ( ii ) young girls were raped and many had died from clandestine abortions after becoming prostitutes ; ( iii ) children were exploited from the age of three by professional beggars , from the age of six by drug traffickers and , if they survived , ended up in armed groups used by criminal gangs and even the police ; ( iv ) the abuse of drugs and solvents was common among street children ; ( v ) an estimated 3,000 children were illegally adopted annually by foreigners , 50 per cent going to Italy and 30 per cent to France , who paid up to US$20,000 for a white child ; and ( vi ) 25,000,000 out of 45,000,000 children were chronically underfed , 30 per cent lived in poverty and 10,000 were child workers . |
| 6 | It would be owners and occupants of Wyvis Hall between nine and twelve years before that they would wish to interview , and those were Great-Uncle Hilbert , who was dead , himself and Ivan Langan to whom he had sold the house . |
| 7 | Overall , four-fifths were studying at university and one-fifth were polytechnic students . |
| 8 | Only two per cent of successful UK Ph D researchers between 1960 and 1983 were earth scientists . |
| 9 | The preoperative HBV and HBD serology and hepatectomy findings are summarised in Table I. All patients had HBsAg in serum , eight were HBeAg positive , and two were HBV DNA positive . |
| 10 | One of those sentenced to death was sentenced in his absence and two were staff sergeants in the Algerian military . |
| 11 | 1958 and 1959 were boom years , and my pupils got into Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 12 | Runners-up were the Edinburgh team of John Hamilton , Mike Young , Duncan Cursiter and Duncan MacDonald and third were Jim Hay , John Simpson , Bill Innes and Finlay Marshall , of Aberdeen and Edinburgh . |
| 13 | In all , 61 respondents were eventually contacted and interviewed , 28 were Detoxification Unit patients and 39 were Drugs Council clients , six individuals having been selected by both samples . |
| 14 | We had to be 5′ 10″ at least and most were 6′ 0″ or over . |
| 15 | Dr Anne Kussmaul has estimated that between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries about 60 per cent of the population aged between 15 and 24 were farm servants and that between a third and a half of the country 's hired labour force was supplied in this way . |