Example sentences of "these were [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I consulted a textbook it seemed that these were nuchal organs , important in food detection . |
| 2 | These were extraordinary allegations and they turned the city upside down . |
| 3 | these were extraordinary occurrences , they were n't you know things that were daily available . |
| 4 | These were stylish houses built over an empty space , used as a garage , with few supporting columns . |
| 5 | Most of these were 1948 refugees , but some were indigenous to the West Bank . |
| 6 | These were sooty shearwaters and we realised we were passing Kidney Island , a local nature reserve which held large colonies of seabirds , including many thousands of these sooty shearwaters . |
| 7 | These were long sacks which were suspended through a circular hole in the floor , called the trading hole ( until presses were introduced , the hops were compressed by a man treading them in ) . |
| 8 | Or , on the other , it could be claimed that these were long-term objectives and that the animal was conscious only of intermediate ends ; the hyena was following the promptings of its hunger . |
| 9 | Occasionally she was caught for a fraction of a second with images of a pig 's cot wall with a black cat on it or a square stone chapel silhouetted in Sunday dusk , but these were inconsequential visitations , debris from the past uncovered by the rhythms of a particular song or the set and angle of a passing face , a passing mood . |
| 10 | Also known as the ‘ hippogriff ’ , these were winged creatures born of the union of a male GRIFFIN and a filly . |
| 11 | Two-thirds of the BBC 's audience did so from time to time and a quarter of these were regular listeners . |
| 12 | He refused to say whether these were Arab embassies and whether Libya was involved . |
| 13 | The vast majority of these were hastily-assembled hack jobs , pieced together from published sources and fleshed out with the dubious reminiscences of alleged veterans . |
| 14 | These were curious times for me . |
| 15 | Also known as the Furies , Daughters of the Night , or the Angry Ones , these were avenging goddesses of the Underworld in Greek mythology . |
| 16 | Use of idiom was almost totally lacking in the samples of signing collected , partly because these were fixed tasks of description of pictures rather than conversational ( though even in conversations which we recorded with interpreters the signing was dominated by English ) , and partly because there is a feeling that BSL in its deaf form is somehow inappropriate for the formality of a test situation . |
| 17 | Altogether twenty-five of the forty wrote ‘ I am a housewife ’ at some point in the test and seventeen of these were working class . |
| 18 | In this chapter I shall be concerned with the description and interpretation of past states of language , bearing in mind that these were variable states , and with ‘ the use of the present to explain the past ’ . |
| 19 | Fifteen were tradesmen ( grocer , pawnbroker , draper etc. ) , though it is not always clear whether these were small shopkeepers or employed by someone else . |
| 20 | Here , there were workshops ( e.g. in Leicester , and also in Verulamium ) , but these were small scale affairs , with at most four attested products and little indication of any more widespread organisational significance . |
| 21 | She had set foot in Skipton and passed through Keighley , but these were small country towns . |
| 22 | These were small victories , but in those days of darkness they gave the High Elves some hope . |
| 23 | The bather began the process in the hot room ( the caldarium ) ; these were small compartments with hot water baths . |
| 24 | These were small details now , swallowed up in the joy of knowing that she was loved by the man she had loved silently for so long . |
| 25 | These were small events but when repeated up and down the country , they amounted to a vast change in Nonconformist attitudes towards worship . |
| 26 | The Americans claim that Iraq 's two surviving nuclear reactors ( unlike the one Israel knocked out in 1981 , these were small research reactors ) have been completely destroyed , along with many of Iraq 's chemical and biological weapons plants . |
| 27 | Admittedly , these were early days in the season , before the tough training schedule at Richmond had beefed up fitness levels . |
| 28 | But these were early days , and Shelley was n't a quitter . |
| 29 | These were early skirmishes in a long-running conflict . |
| 30 | The local hospital was offering nursing training courses ; however , the first year these were available Val applied too late , so she became a nursing auxiliary instead . |