Example sentences of "and [adj] were [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These districts were primarily urban and working class and eleven were textile areas . |
| 2 | 183,743 students were involved in the sample , of which 18,343 were mature students and 165,400 were students under 21 years of age . |
| 3 | Both Mr Pitman Senior and Junior were reps who grew progressively despondent over the standard of rooms and services they encountered on their travels . |
| 4 | It gradually became clear that some of the intruders were attackers and some were rescuers dispatched by Bazargan and Yazdi . |
| 5 | The simplified distinction , from then on , between all dinosaurs is that some were bipedal ( two-legged ) , and some were quadrupeds ( four-legged ) . |
| 6 | and er then when they left school some were missionaries and some were nurses . |
| 7 | Between 1970 and 1989 , for example , four fifths of BBC governors were men , half had been privately educated and half were products of Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 8 | Of his twenty-four uncited articles , three were editorial leaders , and twenty-one were letters . |
| 9 | The Thurlstone militia returns of 1806 name 129 men , of whom forty-one were weavers and twenty-one were clothiers , each of them humble men who worked at a loom in their own home . |
| 10 | In September 1968 the CNAA had approved a total of 213 courses , of which 175 were undergraduate courses and 12 were MSc courses . |
| 11 | The early anti-racist initiatives of the 1960s and 70s were school based and developed by teachers drawing their strength and legitimacy from both their professionalism and their identification with local community issues ( e.g. ALTARF , 1980 , 1984 ) . |
| 12 | In all Bede wrote thirty-five works , of which twenty were commentaries on Exodus , Proverbs , and other books of the Bible and six were works of chronology . |
| 13 | Their mean age was 46.6 years with a range of 21–82 years , and 10 were men . |
| 14 | Of the 19 LEAs involved , 12 were metropolitan boroughs and 7 were counties . |
| 15 | Whitmore recorded 29 types of tree around such a village in Trengganu , noting that 12 of them were identical with wild forest trees , such as the rambutan ( Nephelium lappaceum , Sapindaceae ) and the sentul ( Sandoricum koetjape , Meliaceae ) , a further six appeared to be selected and improved forms of wild trees , five were cultigens like the betel nut , and three were exotics , like the papaya ( Carica papaya , a New World cultigen ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But lions kill to eat , and these were creatures of another breed . |
| 18 | A S. I remember when I was working as a dogsbody in the 59 Theatre Company in Manchester a group of Central School students came to be the spirits in a production of The Tempest and these were Pisk trained and had , it seemed to me then , a marvellous range of body language . |
| 19 | For Churchill had made his famous " Iron Curtain " speech on 5 March , and these were countries which lay beyond that barrier . |
| 20 | The Peak Park 's restrictions to moorland in the last three years have caused far more disruption to climbing than bolts ever have , and these were bans imposed by people who are sympathetic to our cause . |
| 21 | And these were pleasure ? |
| 22 | His were brass and these were steel . |
| 23 | Erm we boys , my father used to s what we call stud our shoes , and they were round sort of metal studs , and these were sort of knocked into your soles to save the leather . |
| 24 | Most of the victims were peasants , some were students and teachers , and 31 were children and young people . |
| 25 | All were aged between twenty and thirty at the time of interview , and all were mothers . |
| 26 | They found their way into all parts of Europe and all were trumpets of power . |
| 27 | Seven patients were women and 11 were men , and their ages ranged from 49 to 84 years . |
| 28 | Of those going forward as candidates , 628 were from the MPRP , 16 from the pro-MPRP Mongolian Revolutionary Youth League , 68 from the Mongolian Democratic Party ( MDP ) ( the main opposition grouping ) , 18 from the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) , 15 from the National Progress party ( NPP ) , and 55 were independents . |
| 29 | They were small and neat and many were flower studies . |
| 30 | Monthly totals between 1962 and 1976 were April one , May ( 25 ) , June ( seven ) , July ( four ) , August ( 13 ) , September ( seven ) , and October ( three ) . |