Example sentences of "[noun] were [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pollack & Pickett ( 63 ) , presenting listeners with stretches of conversational speech in a gating experiment , found that samples of about 140 csec ( i.e. about seven words ) were required before intelligibility reached 90% , despite the fact that listeners knew how many words were in each sample , and , for later samples , were hearing repetitions of the initial context . |
| 2 | In many cases , the latter variables were accounted for more than initial variables — ; ‘ first or last words were in many cases influential in my decision making process ’ and ‘ found that the last few adjectives had more influence especially if they reflected negative points of the personality ’ . |
| 3 | It may be that this was done only where there was a public interest , but we have already seen that in the two areas in which trusts involved purely private interests , restitution of property and manumission , the remedies of cognitio were in any case adequate to secure specific performance . |
| 4 | Accusations of republican and Communist domination of NICRA and attempts to link the civil rights movement to subversion and violence were to some extent understandable responses by Unionists to the events in Derry . |
| 5 | The offices of Lord Warden , Ranger , and other Forest offices were in most cases abolished , and compensation allowed by the Acts to the holders . |
| 6 | The immediate success of Autocover when it started in 1982 clearly demonstrated just how competitive the premiums were at that time . |
| 7 | This provided not only an overview of the stated intentions of Major Project schools but also some kind of check that the six schools chosen as the focus for our study were in these terms not atypical . |
| 8 | Johnson thought they ‘ remained convinced that the umpires were on some kind of personal mission to upset them ’ . |
| 9 | Most disputes were of this kind , involving traditional sources of conflict : land and water rights or personal injury . |
| 10 | All of Keith 's own entries were in this section . |
| 11 | There were no effective leaders with whom he could deal and , at this point , Congressional parties were of little help to a chief executive trying to meet his responsibility to govern . |
| 12 | It would be odd if a transaction were outside the section in all circumstances solely because it was governed by a foreign law even though , for instance , all the parties were in this country at all times . |
| 13 | I never met her and it was just talk in the shops , the corner shops were in those days were the gossip places , you know . |
| 14 | What developed was a massacre rather than any battle , as disciplined and prepared thousands bore down upon a scattered , unready and largely leaderless crowd , which could have had no idea that any enemy were on this side of the river . |
| 15 | One reason for this was , of course , that since he had been dead for three months his eyes were in any case not in the best of condition . |
| 16 | Against the backdrop of apparent economic stability and increasing affluence the idea that the major industrial nations were at some kind of break-point held considerable appeal . |
| 17 | During the discussions , many participants said they could not accept that round teabags were in any way superior . |
| 18 | The problems that Sterling faced in recovering the aircraft were at some times almost insurmountable . |
| 19 | Large pieces of timber take some considerable time to come to equilibrium with the surrounding humidity and , because the English weather changes so often , there was generally no time to build up dangerous differences in swelling strains so that we had comparatively little trouble from this cause , so long as the aircraft were in this country . |
| 20 | The polytechnics were from this point onwards to have greater opportunities for development than other colleges , as a result of the operation of two factors . |
| 21 | With the exception of Paul Nilon 's delightfully zany Count Belfiore , the principal roles were in some danger of being upstaged by the slightly lesser ones ( Nilon is not to blame if it remains incredible that any woman , let alone two , should fall in love with such a bizarre creature ) . |
| 22 | On either side , white-painted kerb stones glowed faintly through the blackness as she walked with the rest towards the sound of the dancing , for ears were of more use than eyes in the blackout . |
| 23 | All the Duchamp brothers were at this time passionately interested in mathematics ; Jacques Villon was engaged in reading Leonardo 's Trattato della Pittura , while Marcel Duchamp was a close friend of an amateur mathematician named Maurice Princet , so that it is not surprising that they should have been responsible for introducing a more scientific note into Cubist discussions . |
| 24 | In 1954 , 31 per cent of those officially classified as in work were in this category . |
| 25 | Their chief functions were of this world . |
| 26 | Miss Armstrong said the defendants were in some way prodding the woman from behind she swung round as if to hit the children with her bag and they ran off . |
| 27 | Possibly the contras were in that category , but possibly not . |
| 28 | FRIENDS WERE WORRIED ABOUT HOW POOR THE ASHLEYS WERE AT THIS TIME BUT THE CHILDREN ARE WEARING MATCHING SWEATERS . |
| 29 | Nearly a million people ( a tenth of Greece 's population ) demonstrated in Salonika ; an opinion poll said that 72% were against any compromise on the name , and 20% were ready to fight about it ; and up to a quarter of New Democracy 's members of parliament threatened rebellion . |
| 30 | The paper alleged that three of Di 's secret visits were to former car dealer James Gilbey . |