Example sentences of "[verb] [was/were] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a measure of the esteem in which Altman is held that many of the close to 70 stars who appear were willing to commit themselves to a project which so ruthlessly satirizes their very existence . |
| 2 | Criticising new Dublin senator Gordon Wilson 's comments that the IRA men he plans to meet were human beings and had suffered too , the East Belfast MP said : ‘ They have n't suffered half enough . ’ |
| 3 | The size of the particles created by the fires and the heights to which they rose were key factors that determined the atmospheric residence times of the pollutants , the extent of spread of the plumes , and hence the degree of impact on weather and climate . |
| 4 | Moreover , these material objects were ‘ known ’ to generations of those for whom the land rights that they validated were important . |
| 5 | The Government took the view that the distinction between public and private was meritless , partly because in the course of the miners ' dispute , summonses brought under the 1936 Act , section 5 were dismissed because the persons charged were able to show that they were on National Coal Board or other private property , and no offence was committed even though the victims of the threats were on the public highway . |
| 6 | Although DNs said they applied compression bandages to 73 per cent of affected limbs , 35 per cent of bandages used were inadequate to reverse the effects of chronic venous insufficiency . |
| 7 | The stand and materials used were similar to those used at the Steam Engine Rally . |
| 8 | The inhibiting antibodies used were monospecific , showed on cross reactivity , and blocked maximum standard urokinase type plasminogen activator and tissue type plasminogen activator activity completely . |
| 9 | The routes the Sweepers used were restricted access , so he had little fear of detection . |
| 10 | The instructions and scale used were identical to those used for Studies 2 and 3 . |
| 11 | The competitor species used were 20- and 100-fold excesses of ds LTR , single stranded LTR , a short single ( ML1 ) or double ( ML1:ML2 ) stranded DNA of 49 bp , tRNA Pro , tRNA Lys and a 415 base HIV-1 RNA . |
| 12 | But after a four-month investigation , the State has charged that the methods used were abusive , worthy only of Cruella de Vil , Walt Disney 's Dalmatian-murdering villain . |
| 13 | It was held that the words used were incapable of being insulting ( even though they were rude and offensive ) , and the Court left open the question currently under discussion . |
| 14 | The watercolours I used were raw sienna , French ultramarine and Indian red , which produced a series of slate greys and browns to match the London brick . |
| 15 | Cape Building Products accepted that any asbestos related conditions Mr McKenzie was shown to suffer were attributable to its fault . |
| 16 | It was n't intended as a writing implement , and the shapes it drew were angular and hard to read . |
| 17 | Some of the plants they drew were diseased ; it is always a matter of difficulty to know which features of a plant or animal are individual peculiarities and which are specific characters . |
| 18 | Often , but by no means invariably , the medreses involved were imperial foundations , such as the medrese of Suleyman 's mother , Hafsa Sultan , in Manisa ( 929/1523 ) ; the medreses of Suleyman himself in Rhodes ( 956/1549 ) and Damascus ( 973/1566 ) ; and that of Selim II on the newly-conquered island of Cyprus ( 978–9/1570–1 ) . |
| 19 | Mike said that the chemicals involved were mobile as well as being potent and their ability is a potential explanation for lack of results in the Council 's study . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought the people involved were Calabrian shepherds . ’ |
| 21 | The Bible account makes it plain that the numbers involved were considerable . |
| 22 | ‘ The people involved were wonderful though . |
| 23 | But if the person involved were prepared to take a chance , he would be even less so at six o'clock . ’ |
| 24 | However , the parties involved were prepared to have their heads hit together to arrive at a solution . |
| 25 | However , the cultural negotiations involved were problematic since they generated tensions between individualism and the investment of cultural authority in the state . |
| 26 | In a 70 page statement Mr Justice Harrison said the councils involved were entitled to seek possession of the sites . |
| 27 | The sums involved were colossal : over £0.5 million for the spire and the roof . |
| 28 | The purchase of land also presupposes that the peasantry involved were able to accumulate cash , which can have been done only by the production of surplus crops and their sale in a market . |
| 29 | the costs involved were prohibitive . |
| 30 | Many who moved were glad to do so and the economy as a whole has benefited from the release of agricultural labour to take up employment in the expanding manufacturing and service sectors . |