Example sentences of "were [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The concept of a frequent service by small 48-seat trams which were quick-loading on busy streets , was the ultimate development of the conventional street tramway . |
| 32 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 33 | They were disadvantaged by colonial status , which did not permit them full citizenship or equal rights with ethnic Japanese , who looked down on them . |
| 34 | The growth of international trade during the long post-war boom and the internationalization of production which have given rise to the new international division of labour occurred under a system where exchange rates were stable over long periods of time , and international finance was dominated by the US dollar , the US economy and Washington 's policies . |
| 35 | By the late 1970s the state sector had become not only a harbour of inefficiency , as in many ‘ developed ’ countries , but also a greenhouse of the hybrid values emerging in Africa many of which were inimical to efficient methods of low-cost production . |
| 36 | These services were taking much-needed capital away from industrial investment and they were , some claimed , creating attitudes and styles of living that were inimical to hard work and increased productivity — a claim discussed in the following chapter . |
| 37 | Mortgage facilities were generous and , although prices were low in national terms in 1982 — between £10 000 for single studio flats and £16 500 for maisonettes — they were not low for Tyneside . |
| 38 | ( 2 ) they were representative of different phases of the project ( years of funding ) ; |
| 39 | The latter case would indicate that , if it were possible for real observers to pass through the horizon , then most would miss this singularity . |
| 40 | Distortions to the single market , the famous ‘ level playing field ’ were rife by other member states . |
| 41 | Regina Eddrizzi , a Party " co-facilitator " , said a large proportion of those registering for the party felt that their interests were unrepresented in mainstream politics . |
| 42 | It seems unlikely that they were the only merchants travelling considerable distances around Britain selling hardware ; nor is it likely that they were unaccompanied by other traders in cloth , leather , wood , fruit and vegetables or other miscellaneous products . |
| 43 | Manchu features were incapable of displaying emotions which were understandable to other humans , which was why they accompanied normal conversation with a series of gestures similar to mime in ballet . |
| 44 | They were guilty of lax marking as Scunthorpe took the lead from two crosses aimed without challenge , and weakened by Baker 's sending off in the 36th minute , a pathetic flourish of petulance . |
| 45 | The Scots , as ever , were guilty of major duplicity . |
| 46 | Sunderland won 1–0 and Murphy admitted : ‘ We were guilty of sloppy defending . |
| 47 | This outlined the basis of Leese 's claim that the Jews were guilty of ritual murder , which had led to his being charged with seditious libel in 1936 . |
| 48 | Eighteen patients ( 15 men ; three women ) who had required intensive support in hospital before cardiac transplantation and were alive at short term follow up . |
| 49 | Of 18 patients who were alive at short term follow up ( mean ( range ) 19.4 ( 10–33 ) months ) , 14 were still alive in 1992 ( 69 ( 61–83 ) months ) . |
| 50 | The seven patients who did not receive a transplant died in hospital , but 18 of 20 patients who survived to hospital discharge after transplantation were alive at short term follow up ( mean ( range ) 19.4 ( 10–33 ) months ) . |
| 51 | Of the 18 patients who were alive at short term follow up , one has since died of coronary disease ; a second patient with coronary disease died of carcinoma of the lung ; and four further surviving patients have angiographic evidence of disease . |
| 52 | That the acts were not a new departure is argued by those who draw attention to the pre-existing illegality of trade unions under the law of conspiracy and under around forty statutes , a number of which were specific to particular trades . |
| 53 | The trees were rich in autumnal glory , the golds , russets and copper contrasting strongly with the bottle-green of a belt of fir trees etched against the deep blue of the October sky . |
| 54 | There is no reason to suppose people were interested by different kinds of things in 1945 than in 1990 — or 1890 , for that matter . |
| 55 | ‘ In the early days few people were interested in outdoor pursuits indeed there were few outdoor activities anyway . |
| 56 | Many scientists were interested in other tissue extracts , several of which were known to affect blood vessels but were not identified until after 1945 . |
| 57 | 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. |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | In some regions the lesser nobles , both titled and untitled , were interested in local concerns and in agricultural improvement : thus the Basque and Asturian lesser nobility were admirable local patriots , good landlords , influential in their districts . |
| 60 | Marx and Engels were interested in primitive cultures because they wanted to construct a general history and theory of society in order to explain the coming to be of capitalism . |