Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] were [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Branson 's views about England were more platitudinous than revolutionary ; England , he would say , is ‘ a great place to live in , but as a great place it should carry on standing totally for democracy and people should have the absolute freedom to say what they think ’ . |
| 2 | Other reasons for depopulation were also examined during this period . |
| 3 | Although there had been brief conflicts between England and France in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II , the reasons for war were now much more substantial than they had been in 1294 or 1324 , and the will to war on the part of the king , if not yet on the part of most of the nobility , was much more apparent . |
| 4 | The reasons for referral were either at the patient 's request because of an unwillingness to undergo an operation ( 70% ) or because the patient was a high operative risk ( 30% ) . |
| 5 | By the autumn of 1983 my plans for health were well under way . |
| 6 | Fights between skins were usually the result of some territorial infringement . |
| 7 | The sums which people paid Maples for furniture were very small compared with what they had to pay for a house to put it in . |
| 8 | Statements of support for Raybestos were also issued by Cork Chamber of Commerce , the Association of Chambers of Commerce in Ireland , the ITGWU District Committee and the Cork Regional Branch of the FUE . |
| 9 | It is also relevant here that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries meetings between rulers were exceedingly rare ( Louis XIV never met William III , the Emperor Leopold I or Charles II of Spain , the rivals against whom he struggled for so long ) and negotiations between them had therefore to be conducted entirely through their diplomats . |
| 10 | Teachers who see the scheme as useful in producing proposals for changes were again significantly positive in their attitudes whereas those not doing so were negative . |
| 11 | Subjective assessments of pain and difficulty during exercise were significantly less for patients in the experimental group on both test dates than for the control group , although they improved for both groups . |
| 12 | Thirdly , the amounts of PABA excreted in urine during six hours after dosing were significantly lower in rats pretreated with antibiotics and higher in bacterial overgrowth rats compared with controls , as found in the PABA-UDCA administration test . |
| 13 | The story of commercial co-option is familiar in pop history but the terms in which the story is told change , and Paul Morley 's words about Frankie were thus more important than Frankie themselves . |
| 14 | Its high pitched screams for mercy were literally unbearable and Klift turned away , sickened . |
| 15 | Almost half had used some training units , but from our observations it was clear that the guidelines for use were rarely followed closely . |
| 16 | The difference in costs between the sexes was less than for items except in the 65–84 groups , in which prescriptions for men were more expensive . |
| 17 | Edwin and Robert Grabhorn , who founded the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco in 1920 , worked so amicably together that it was said of them : ‘ When Ed 's away the shop goes to pieces ; when Bob 's away , Ed goes to pieces ’ ; but it would be a mistake to think that relationships between printers were always so harmonious . |
| 18 | The press campaign and the Falangist demands for retribution were perfectly consonant with Franco 's own view of the 9 February events . |
| 19 | Self-governing towns were swift to embrace this new — or rather revived Carolingian — form of trial ; for disputes between merchants were hardly susceptible of solution by battle . |
| 20 | Japanese salmon drift-netters fishing off Alaska were therefore allowed this figure as an annual quota as incidental catch . |
| 21 | Her family is described as " infirm " , and this may explain why even with two of her daughters grown women in their twenties the family was able to earn little , although it may also reflect the fact that earning opportunities for women were so poor that even able-bodied spinsters could not wholly maintain themselves . |
| 22 | Songs about sex were often very explicit-far more so than would be acceptable in many other cultures . |
| 23 | Statements issued by the PLO during January were highly critical of the Baker plan and of the pace of peace negotiations in general . |
| 24 | The assembly plants and body shops of Detroit were once staffed by workers from the adjacent farms and small towns of Michigan and Ontario , as well as by immigrants from Poland and elsewhere in Europe . |
| 25 | Three centuries of colonialism were then imposed on the peoples seized from Africa to work on its plantations . |
| 26 | Methods of cultivation were so improved that even relatively poor land could be intensively exploited ; new crops were introduced , which involved new systems of rotation and made large units of farmland more economic than small-holdings . |
| 27 | Even where open fields remained , the methods of operation were radically changed to accommodate these new techniques , but the advantages of convertible husbandry were clearly greatest for those farmers with enclosed fields . |
| 28 | But , if the methods of delivery were frequently inappropriate so , I felt , was the content of training . |
| 29 | But , in those early days of her marriage , her father had merely seemed to be a deeply unhappy if somewhat eccentric man , whose small losses of memory were hardly noticeable . |
| 30 | And actually some of the areas on the outskirts of Prestatyn were quite nice . |