Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] were [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pair of matched bays were being led into the exercise ring by a groom , and he turned away to watch them . |
| 2 | This estimate suggests that 8 per cent of acute beds were being ‘ blocked ’ by these patients . |
| 3 | Since at least 17% of hypertensives were newly discovered , at least 46% of confirmed cases were being treated insufficiently . |
| 4 | As we approached , a party of surly children were being taught how to traverse this wire contraption by an Outward Bound teacher from the Midlands . |
| 5 | Practise formation flying began early June and by the 18th , rehearsals with a full complement of 12 aircraft were being flown over the Norfolk countryside . |
| 6 | By 12 July 1966 , however , the US embassy feared that the limits of British tolerance were being reached as the struggle in Vietnam intensified . |
| 7 | The NHS was created at a time of post-war reconstruction , when large sections of British industry were being nationalised by the Labour government . |
| 8 | Despite dire tales of distribution being ripped off outside the paper , figures of 50,000 sales were being quoted , and 40,000 was probably being touched . |
| 9 | Every so often the sound of a dropped pencil or pen would break the solitude , but apart from that the only sound was that of the wind outside , whipping around the building , hurling rain at the windows so hard it sounded as if thousands of tiny pebbles were being bounced off the glass . |
| 10 | According to a World Resources Institute survey presented on June 7 , 1990 , between 160,000 and 200,000 sq km of tropical rainforest were being destroyed annually . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , commissions were attempting to finalize drafts of the various congress declarations , but dozens of contradictory amendments were being tabled by the various delegations . |
| 12 | Behind the baloney of liberation , the naked power-politics of male supremacy were being acted out . |
| 13 | The base of one tube , four hundred and twelve feet long , was already complete , and the side panels of wrought iron were being added . |
| 14 | Financially , the slave traders had rather more reason to take care of the people they were carrying than the transporters of convicts or of indentured labourers did ; all of these groups were being taken over as a speculative venture on which the shipper got no return unless he delivered live bodies , but the slave traders had already paid out cash to purchase their slaves . |
| 15 | Senior pupils were considered to be less well served than any other group and almost one half of all secondary schools were not satisfied that the needs of these pupils were being met . |
| 16 | Despite the happenings of the 400 years which have passed since the last of these buildings were being constructed , the quantity which exists in all European countries is testimony to the ability of the builders and the truly vast numbers of structures which were put up between 1150 and 1550 . |
| 17 | Soon it had become a continuous deluge as if countless buckets of black ink were being emptied from the sky above them . |
| 18 | By the later decades of the century it was becoming obvious that the numbers of many species were being rapidly diminished , and it was now regarded as ‘ unsporting ’ to amass the vast collections of trophies favoured by earlier hunters . |
| 19 | The number of full committees were being reduced from the two or three dozen common in the early 1960s to a more manageable fifteen or sixteen , and chief executive officers were being appointed in many parts of the country . |
| 20 | You know it seems it awful really that two of those places were are n't they ? all these , all the forest |
| 21 | At a press conference on May 2 President Vaclav Havel said that he thought that racist attacks by groups of skinheads on Romanies , Vietnamese guest workers and other members of racial minorities were being provoked by supporters or agents of the former communist regime , who were also engaging in disinformation about the situation in the country . |
| 22 | Following the announcement of a new election timetable [ see p. 38898 ] , the caretaker Prime Minister , André Milongo , announced on June 12 that , as a result of widespread electoral fraud in the May 3 municipal and local polling , the mayors of six municipalities and the prefects of nine regions were being dismissed . |
| 23 | TWO more brands of Dutch lager were being withdrawn from the UK market after glass splinters were found in some bottles , it was reported yesterday . |
| 24 | Carts full of precious belongings were being unloaded in the courtyards ; ostlers , grooms and farriers shouted and yelled . |
| 25 | While there were several theatres of operation , it was the carnage of the Western Front , in Belgium and France , where the destinies of several Empires were being determined . |
| 26 | Bush made his statement after receiving a CIA report in mid-February , which had informed him that Israeli claims that under 1 per cent of Soviet immigrants were being settled in the " occupied territories " was only partly true , because a further 10 per cent were being placed in settlements in East Jerusalem . |
| 27 | In hospitals a number of new drugs were being used . |
| 28 | Scientists were deeply split on the uses to which the discoveries of atomic physics were being put . |
| 29 | Mr Heslop added that a court would not intervene in a management decision to dismiss a chief executive when allegations of bad faith were being made by him against the chairman and other board members . |
| 30 | They told me that there were serious everyday problems which arose because the needs of Asian patients were being ignored . |