Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj] [conj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of her gentleman clients were foreign and even the odd Arab prince had come to her office . |
| 2 | Environmental concern mushroomed during the 1960s and was stimulated by warnings about the impact of human activity and by debates about the extent to which earth resources were finite and therefore the basis for a pessimistic or optimistic future for spaceship earth . |
| 3 | Originally the horns were lyre-shaped and traditionally the animals were horn-tethered . |
| 4 | Oh well the role of the police , well of course they were opposed to the strikers but there were n't er quite so many police you see and and the strike movement was strong and so the the the they did n't have a great deal of affect . |
| 5 | The success was phenomenal and soon the company opened factories in other parts of the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | Law and morality were not yet clearly distinguished , nor could one even say that the whole of law or justice was to be found in any one court ; the Ecclesiastical Courts , and Local Courts of many different kinds , administered a justice which was not the justice of the Common Law Courts ; so the thought was natural that even the King 's justice was not exhausted in the power conferred on his courts . |
| 7 | On the whole the roads were good and also the Inns — the latter however are extravagantly high in their charges . |
| 8 | Three subsequent balloon dilations were unsuccessful and finally the patient was referred to our institution . |
| 9 | However , the skills required to build such systems were rare and also the required combinations of software and computer hardware were expensive . |
| 10 | The press was far and away the most important section of the audience . |
| 11 | Marion , a ripely handsome woman in her mid-thirties , who had played a season at Stratford-on-Avon and toured as Mrs Tanqueray , was extremely displeased at having to share Jessie , let alone a dressing-room , and particularly with a chit like Bunty ; but the Regent was small and naturally the two Star dressing-rooms , 1 and 2 , went to Salt and Pepper , that perennial and professionally married pair of comedy-thriller performers whose productions never ran for less than a year — a godsend in a profession where rehearse for three weeks , open and close in two was not unusual . |
| 12 | Shearman recalled that , at first , discussion with Hickson was unpromising but eventually the appointment of Pateman to the post , vacant from 1928 , was confirmed . |
| 13 | The rate ratio for admission was similar when only the first admission of each child was counted ( 27 vs 42 , rate ratio 0.65 [ 0.41–1.04 ] , p=0.09 ) . |
| 14 | The West saw revolution coming through military struggle , misunderstanding that the appeal of Communism was sociological and thus the struggle was political . |
| 15 | The CGT was far and away the most powerful union federation . |
| 16 | To be a hero on the field and to aspire to the red jersey of Wales was far and away the most dashing thing you could do . |
| 17 | The King , however , made it clear that neither mother nor son was welcome and so the journey to England had to be resumed . |