Example sentences of "were [adj] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probes for the hybridisation were 32 P-labelled by random priming ( 40 ) . |
| 2 | The three did not come to trial until last week when they were each imprisoned for four years . |
| 3 | They were each jailed for eight weeks . |
| 4 | But Thomas Reid , 32 , and Neil Anderson , 21 , were each jailed for four months at Inverness Sheriff Court yesterday when they admitted trying to break into Torvean golf course . |
| 5 | Ernest Atcheson , 46 , of Matilda Gardens , and Noel Nelson , 34 , of Majestic Drive , were jailed for six years ; Alister Tait , of Utility Street , was sentenced to five years ; Robert Cooper , 26 , of Runnymede Parade and Colin Lindsay , 25 , of Kilwarlin Crescent were each jailed for three years last Tuesday . |
| 6 | John Johnston , 35 , of Mount William , Sauchie , and Edward Carroll , 27 , of New Mills , Tullibody , were each jailed for three months . |
| 7 | TWO couriers from London who delivered cannabis resin valued at almost £150,000 to Dundee were each jailed for seven years yesterday . |
| 8 | For the UK throughout the 1970s gross contributions were high relative to economic prosperity . |
| 9 | They were light beige with high heels . |
| 10 | Severity of disease as measured by symptom score was significantly higher in those who were unemployed due to ill health ( table III ) . |
| 11 | So I told the press the next morning who were mega grumpy at all of this and I do n't blame them , so when the ceremony started Pat took the stills photographer round to the front and the television guys as the Princess began to inspect er the crew pulled all their gear through the Band of the Royal Marines over their toe caps under the tubas and pressed their cameras under the nose of the Princess Royal which would n't have happened had the Lieutenant Commander been prepared to listen to us and of course you could see him getting angrier and angrier |
| 12 | Needing 76 off the last 20 overs and with five wickets in hand they were 35 short with six overs remaining when torrential rain called a halt . |
| 13 | Needing 76 off the last 20 overs and with five wickets in hand they were 35 short with six overs remaining when torrential rain called a halt . |
| 14 | It was immediately evident to the Doctor that , accustomed as they were to successful action , the Chelonians were ill prepared for such a large number of casualties . |
| 15 | As vice-president of the Union he went to the United States ( September-November 1925 ) as part of a debating team of three , all of whom were later well-known in public life . |
| 16 | Soon the four wheels were shiny black with bright red centres . |
| 17 | They did n't theek the hay stacks though , well Yes when er There was the tramp coles and then they broke them into what they called the big hay stacks but they were great big round great big |
| 18 | Although PSCs were present early in all the simulations ( Fig. 3a ) , in three of these they had disappeared before having a significant effect on the ozone amounts . |
| 19 | The military and political pressures to find new ways of making tritium and the vast amounts of money involved were stimulating early in 1989 new ideas on how to make fusion — for tritium production . |
| 20 | All samples were snap frozen in liquid nitrogen . |
| 21 | In 12 of the 16 cases , fresh tissue specimens were snap frozen in liquid nitrogen after 30 minutes ' incubation in gum sucrose for immunohistological studies . |
| 22 | Tissue samples were snap frozen in liquid nitrogen or on dry ice in a cryoprotective broth and stored frozen . |
| 23 | Probably they were all present to some degree . |
| 24 | Probably they were all present to some degree . |
| 25 | We had to find a way of convincing ourselves that any move , no move , any news , no news , good treatment , bad treatment were all indicative of imminent release . |
| 26 | His mixture of Social Darwinism , categorization of national and racial types , the Manichean conflict between Aryan and Jew , reading of personality from physical attributes , primitive eugenics , the aesthetic ideal of beauty and the use of middle-class value judgements were all symptomatic of this . |
| 27 | It faced due west , and now its front windows were all ablaze with reflected light from the setting sun . |
| 28 | Milk yields , crop yields and food conversion rates were all similar to those of the better farms in Britain . |
| 29 | It was made clear to us that Operation ‘ Brisket ’ for the road haulage dispute , ‘ Bittern ’ for the rapidly growing ambulance drivers ' dispute , and ‘ Nimrod ’ in the case of the water workers ' action , were all long on detailed planning , but short on how much could actually be done in a major dispute . |
| 30 | We were all sorry about Black Dog getting away , but there was nothing we could do . |