Example sentences of "[adj] [det] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the 3,813 papers transferred at 0.39 each were worth 1487.07 votes to Craig . |
| 2 | No that that were my mistake that . |
| 3 | Another ANC spokesman said : ‘ It 's possible some were members , but this was a meeting with Afrikaner intellectuals , not the Broederbond . ’ |
| 4 | The vast majority are paid ‘ premium ’ payments and in 1972 these were codified by the AWB into a wages structure whereby skilled and supervisory workers receive plus rates laid down by the Board . |
| 5 | Between 1765 and 1767 these were held at Carlisle House , Soho Square , and were organized by the impresario Teresa Cornelys . |
| 6 | Although Mr Grant , of Barkingside , Essex , had made it clear these were children accounts he was twice advised his name should be put first . |
| 7 | well Hampshire was supposed to have some more were n't they ? |
| 8 | The majority of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century grave-clothes were still being manufactured in London but by the 1830s more were coming from the Lancashire area . |
| 9 | Starting with Leicester , these were all on air by mid-1968 and 12 more were added before 1970 . |
| 10 | Between 1973 and 1976 , 69 AIM members and supporters died violently and 300 more were physically assaulted , sometimes shot . |
| 11 | Between 1973 and 1976 , 69 AIM members and supporters died violently and 300 more were physically assaulted , sometimes shot . |
| 12 | Would that such were here ! |
| 13 | In the England of Edward I , if the great feudatories had refused payment for fear of losing caste , by the reign of Edward III all were ‘ now prepared to accept wages for military service ’ . |
| 14 | Six more were abolished on Feb. 13 , and a further three on Feb. 27 . |
| 15 | By the 1980s 300 people had died from eating the poisoned fish , and at least 1500 more were disabled . |
| 16 | Many Americans found shelter in churches and community centres — but hundreds more were turned away when they got crowded . |
| 17 | At least 70 people were killed and hundreds more were missing in the Romanian town of Focsani , 160 km north-east of Bucharest , after an earthquake struck on May 30 . |
| 18 | Hundreds more were injured when police attacked the demonstration and Clarence Baker spent weeks close to death . |
| 19 | In the first outbreak it was estimated that no more than one per cent of the entire rabbit population survived , and these few were either immune or out of contact with other rabbits . |
| 20 | Most of them had been in from the start , born survivors , born leaders : amongst these lucky few were numbered Rosie Lane , an athletic , pretty , small-faced girl whose father owned a large grocer 's , and whose primal popularity h ) d been cheaply purchased by the judicious distribution of dried apricots and jelly cubes , which the girls devoured whole . |
| 21 | Stan Reynolds , Harry Little , Carl Einstien and Fred Grummidge may not have the same ring about them but between 1950 and 1960 these were the names on the footballing tongues of Whaddon . |
| 22 | In 1946 these were renamed the MVD and MGB and later changed yet again to their present titles of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopastnosti ( KGB ) , and the Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye ( GRU ) . |
| 23 | Consequently in 1510 these were bracketed with squires of the body and other court officers , while the 1533 act specifies in addition esquires or gentlemen eligible for knighthood or to serve as knights of the shire . |
| 24 | At one end were two padded cells for mental cases , and opposite these were cupboards for medical stores . |
| 25 | These latter were nearly all middle-aged or C3 with bad eyesight , so the outlook was not exactly exhilarating . |
| 26 | Apart from any need to counter persistent infringement of the rules of dress and display , the number of enactments is indicative of considerable uncertainty , for not only did the legislature feel impelled to extend the terminology of rank with monetary equivalents , these latter were made the subject of continual amendment within the broad permanent framework . |
| 27 | These latter were envisaged as being the CNAA and the universities . |
| 28 | Rather , the argument was that industrialism was giving rise to new , and massive , urban concentrations and these latter were having distinct social effects . |
| 29 | Several hundred thousand Spaniards and non-Spaniards had died on the battlefields of Spain between 1936 and 1939 ; at least 200,000 more were to be executed during the next few years , 2,000,000 would suffer imprisonment or forced labour , and millions more again faced a lifetime of discrimination for having fought on behalf of the Republic . |
| 30 | Lord Petre ordered one for himself , another in the name of his gardener , James Hunt , while a dozen more were bespoke on behalf on those who tended the great gardens ; James Hoyland for the Earl of Carlisle at Castle Howard and Rice Lewis for the Earl of Burlington at Chiswick , for example . |