Example sentences of "[noun] were [adj] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	We 've always believed that the market has to be regulated ; that 's what Disraeli and Peel were all about in the nineteenth century , ’ he said .
2	The revenues of both companies were well down on the same month in 1991 , showing a large proportion of their sales coming form the cheaper ranges .
3	The short days were half over by the time I ventured from the hut ( where my motorbike was also preserved .
4	The Mexican boy and his father were both up on the boot .
5	The village was decked with flags and flowers , with garlands of leaves between the trees and over the doors of all the cottages , and the villagers were all out in the street , the children playing in their best white frilled dresses and shirts .
6	They show that those tests have nothing to do with the amount spent per pupil in individual authority areas — some of the biggest spenders were right down at the bottom .
7	Garth McGimpsey and Raymond Burns were both out on the Valley today after overnight 75s .
8	Figures for January this year were 11 up on the same month last year , when 73 women contacted Edinburgh Women 's Aid .
9	At one time Lancashire 's reply seemed very likely to even less than that as Albert Ward , Sugg , Smith and Briggs were all back in the pavilion with only 21 on the board .
10	STANTONDALE were two up in the first quarter of an hour through Graham Dodd and man of the match Paul Diamond before Carl Thomasson reduced the lead shortly before half-time .
11	Now she was a mother of five and the three young ones were all down with the fever .
12	Rudling added a giant of a conversion so Gloucester were 12-9 down until the very last kick of the game which turned out to be a penalty .
13	It was hushed as a mid-week chapel inside H3 because Carol and her typing tribe were all out in the rain with banners bearing crudely daubed exhortations to the government to raise their pay .

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