Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what they did were mostly bills of the unpaid variety . |
| 2 | Kinloss was a pleasant environment and the locals were extremely kind to the alien invasion , but one felt so very much out of the hurly burly of wartime England , this was made particularly clear when pupils I had trained returned for their rest period , and one did get the message that my operational background was no longer valid or right to pass on to the crews coming forward for conversion to twin-engined aircraft . |
| 3 | There were long faces among the British contingent as study of the replay showed Carroll House deviating from a straight line . |
| 4 | These questions were , to a greater or lesser degree , part and parcel of the armed confrontation , in so far as each side had opposing views on them , but they were merely strands in the overall picture , not the underlying design . |
| 5 | It was assumed by the NRS that the belted and white-faced patterns were merely varieties of the black pied and red pied breeds , with their unusual patterns fixed by selection . |
| 6 | They suggested that the big bang might be a peculiarity of Friedmann 's models alone , which after all were only approximations to the real universe . |
| 7 | The independence of India and Pakistan in 1947 , Ghana and Malaysia in 1957 , and most other African dependencies in the 1960s , were only milestones in the long , gradual process of the relative weakening of Commonwealth links , which for instance withdrew the tariff advantages of the British cotton industry in many tropical markets . |
| 8 | From being little-known property owners , who were simply willing to risk where others hesitated , the Reichmanns were suddenly stars in the financial firmament of America . |
| 9 | Judicial officials at lower levels were normally members of the civil service . |
| 10 | Even members of the Commission who , like myself , were not members of the Labour party , hoped that their social exclusiveness could be softened , and that they would follow the lines of development then visible in Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Wörner , in a clear reference on May 29 to Norway , Turkey and Iceland , which were not members of the European Community ( EC ) , warned that it would be " unacceptable " if new European defence arrangements excluded any European member of the NATO alliance . |
| 12 | Surprisingly , the nine members of the steering group for this study were not members of the Conservative Party Central Office or the Adam Smith Institute but , with one exception ( the representative of the Housebuilders ' Federation ) , were governmental officials , mostly from the Department of the Environment . |
| 13 | An instruction was issued by the Seamen 's Union that members were not to engage on ships whose captain and officers were not members of the Certificated Officers ' Union and any doubts among the majority of shipowners that a national organisation of employers was necessary to protect their interests disappeared . |
| 14 | But they were not remainders from the massive output of BBC Enterprises . |
| 15 | Sometimes people today bewail the fact that they were not contemporaries of the historical Jesus , and imply that it would be much easier to believe and much more advantageous generally if they had been . |
| 16 | In an action brought by the plaintiff against E. Lacon & Co. under the OLA 1957 , E. Lacon & Co. denied liability on the grounds that they were not occupiers of the private part of the premises . |
| 17 | Ivan III and Basil III were not despots on the Asiatic model . |
| 18 | The Merkuts were not part of the Golden Clan , but the remark contained a certain amount of truth . |
| 19 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
| 20 | Though drawings were not part of the dramatic price increases of art during the late 1980s , it does not seem justified to claim that they went untouched by the general downturn of 1991 . |
| 21 | The Flank Companies of the 1st Guards ( Grenadiers ) certainly later reinforced the Coldstream and 3rd Guards but they were not part of the original garrison . |
| 22 | The nerve strain had been bad , and these were not men with the mental resources to immerse themselves in books or thought . |
| 23 | All were , of course , party men , but they were not politicians in the British sense of having won a reputation as fighters in the party battle . |
| 24 | Eley noted that the German radical nationalist leagues were not tools of the ruling elite but were critical of the ability of ‘ the politics of notables ’ to confront internal and external threats to Germany and German propertied interests . |
| 25 | Researchers concluded that chocolate addiction should be treated seriously but also pointed out that many people who called themselves chocoholics because they had a strong liking for the food were not addicts in the true sense of the word . |
| 26 | ‘ I should explain that Matt and I were not lovers in the accepted sense ; we were friends — good friends , we 'd known each other from childhood so we had a lot in common . |
| 27 | Having said that , the hon. and learned Member for Burton makes a good point : it would offend against the views of ordinary persons and would be a crying sense of injustice if people who were not party to the aggravated crime and who had sought to distance themselves from it were found guilty because the balance of probabilities had fallen on them to prove their innocence . |
| 28 | The patrons of this monastic movement were largely members of the Gallo-Roman aristocracy . |
| 29 | They were just pawns in the grand design . |
| 30 | Marriages then , like palaces and warm fires and good soles on one 's shoes , were just refinements for the rich . |