Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | The offices of Lord Warden , Ranger , and other Forest offices were in most cases abolished , and compensation allowed by the Acts to the holders . |
| 4 | The immediate success of Autocover when it started in 1982 clearly demonstrated just how competitive the premiums were at that time . |
| 5 | Johnson thought they ‘ remained convinced that the umpires were on some kind of personal mission to upset them ’ . |
| 6 | Most disputes were of this kind , involving traditional sources of conflict : land and water rights or personal injury . |
| 7 | All of Keith 's own entries were in this section . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | During the discussions , many participants said they could not accept that round teabags were in any way superior . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Their chief functions were of this world . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Possibly the contras were in that category , but possibly not . |
| 21 | The paper alleged that three of Di 's secret visits were to former car dealer James Gilbey . |
| 22 | Noble affinities were in any case constantly evolving as their members came of age , married and died , but Gloucester 's lordship brought other changes . |
| 23 | Noble affinities were in any case constantly evolving as their members came of age , married and died , but Gloucester 's lordship brought other changes . |
| 24 | This is a comment not just on poetic style , but on the substance of the political alternative that Tate and some fellow Southerners were in these years trying to put together , to challenge the industrial capitalism of the restored Union . |
| 25 | The draughtsmen were by this time becoming separated from the engineers , in that specialization which was such a feature of all aspects of life in the age of science . |
| 26 | Other criticisms were of less validity . |
| 27 | In the north , the question of naturalization was not so black-tinted : Egyptian , Tunisian and Moroccan immigrant workers were a higher proportion of the labour force ; and Libyans did not fear many American or European employees would apply for Libyan nationality — petroleum and foreign companies were in any case outside the scope of legislation . |
| 28 | We were pleased when the news was good and depressed when it was bad , but first things came first and I suppose we all felt we were doing our bit and that our personal lives were at that moment of secondary importance . |
| 29 | The plane flew up the fjord , which seemed so narrow that the mountains were on both wing tips at the same time . |
| 30 | The reductions were at all levels , including pilots and senior managers . |