Example sentences of "[adj] were [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a recent report in the New York Times , Castelli has said that he wishes the archives to be fully accessible to the public and that if this were in any doubt he would donate them without charge to the Smithsonian Institute 's Archives of American Art . |
| 2 | But there must also be ships , and while France could not provide a sufficient number of them for herself , she was obliged ( as the English were on some occasions ) to seek them elsewhere . |
| 3 | The three-bedroomed cottage was certainly rare in Dorothea 's time , but by the close of Queen Victoria 's reign the majority of those new-built were of this type . |
| 4 | To get round this uncomfortable fact Fforde would have to argue either that all collectivist legislation emanated from governments of the left , or that all Conservative governments before 1979 were in some way not truly Conservative . |
| 5 | It has never , therefore , been a ‘ value-free ’ academic discipline , if such were in any event possible . |
| 6 | As none of the small libraries with establishments under 100 were in this group , this represents 43% of the libraries with establishments over 100 . |
| 7 | There was mention of some art history work , a few articles for various journals and a cataloguing job for one of the museums but it was clear that for Maidstone these were of little importance and did not really qualify for the title of job . |
| 8 | The navy consisted of nearly 81,000 men , serving in 378 vessels , though only 285 of these were of any size , qualifying as first to sixth rates , and what really counted in any major action were the 121 ships of the line , manned by 70,000 sailors . |
| 9 | These were to some extent offset by the firm 's success in pre-empting new markets . |
| 10 | Each member of the visiting party , which was chaired by Edwin Kerr , reported back to the group on separate initial discussions with the faculties these were in some disarray . |
| 11 | Yet , compared with the literary censorship of the sixties , these were in most areas miniscule . |
| 12 | The patrician planners of the late 1940s were in some retreat a decade later . |
| 13 | All were at that time employed in the Winchester office of the Royal Life Insurance Co . |
| 14 | All were in this sense brethren and capable through redemption of striving to abolish sin . |
| 15 | And they had a shop on Vale as well and a shop in erm on , big s store on Road at but that was the Cop , independent Coop you see , like they all were in those days , the Coop , the Coop and so on , had a Coop , had a Coop , had a Coop at er , they 've all had three shops . |
| 16 | With how many were on each board ? |
| 17 | How many were in this competiton ? |
| 18 | At the end of the training — a weekend seminar on the philosophy of Rebirthing — all 200 were in each other 's arms , many crying with happiness . |
| 19 | But as historians they were more concerned with the past than the present , so they only gradually came to realize that the two were in many ways inseparable : both that remembering itself could be a help to the present lives of those telling their story , and also that the memory could be profoundly shaped by subsequent experience and this needed to be known to interpret it more effectively . |
| 20 | The insensitivity of the Benthamites , who promoted the Act , lay in their refusal to see how bitterly the poor would resent becoming the designated victims of the Act , as if their love for the dead were in some way inferior to that of ‘ their betters ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ They both belong to the National Front and they both were in that tarring and feathering riot down Deptford High Street . |
| 22 | The works of Metzinger , Gleizes and Le Fauconnier had been hung together by chance at the Salon d'Automne of 1910 , but the common characteristics which the critics saw in their styles , and the excitement expressed by the poets and authors at Mercereau 's and at the Closerie des Lilas over the possibilities of a new school of painting , seem to have made the painters aware of each other ; Apollinaire and Salmon in particular , although both were in many ways insensitive to painting , realized that Picasso 's latest style contained the elements of a new art , and felt that the work of several other painters was evolving in a similar direction . |
| 23 | Both were in some respects political outsiders who came to power during a breakdown of ‘ normal ’ party politics and exercised a personal leadership at a time of national crisis . |