Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five weeks later , on 13 November , Southey and Edith Fricker were secretly married in the same church , Southey setting off almost immediately afterwards to spend six months with his uncle in Portugal , leaving Edith behind . |
| 2 | Birth and death , the ultimate holding and letting go , were paradoxically present at the same moment . |
| 3 | Why they were so good and why they were so bad at the same time . ’ |
| 4 | Daimyo took most of their income in the form of rice , and warrior stipends , too , were normally payable in the same commodity . |
| 5 | The role of the officers — the vanguard of revolutionary education , exempt from the civilian controls which applied to electricity or water — seemed to have encouraged them in their belief that in their private capacities too officers were not subject to the same rules as civilians . |
| 6 | Resentful at being used as manual labourers , blacks then discovered that they were not entitled to the same pay increases as white troops because , as the War Office ruled , they were ‘ natives ’ . |
| 7 | While education was the single most significant activity the employers of Advanced Course students engaged in , when it came to job titles and the nature of the jobs the students were or would be doing , educational occupations were not dominant in the same way . |
| 8 | Inevitably , unintended pregnancies were more prevalent among the same groups . |
| 9 | If two different species showed the same coloration , this merely confirmed that they were both subject to the same orthogenetic trend . |
| 10 | Secret sales of property were also subject to the same lambasting . |
| 11 | Both she and Dr Brewis were also concerned about the many patients on their wards who came from outside Newcastle : they knew even less about the arrangements for community care within those districts . |
| 12 | But Soviet leaders were primarily interested in the former as a means to promote the latter among the ASEAN states . |
| 13 | The students who had done the teaching were very critical of the own efforts . |
| 14 | Even today weather reports are sometimes incorrect owing to the vagaries of our climate , but then , with the whole of western Europe blanked out ( thanks to Hitler ) , together with most of Ireland , we were very dependent on the few Atlantic weather ships and ( eventually ) our own trained eyes to tell us what was coming . |
| 15 | Tom 's widow and son flew over for the service and were very appreciative of the many old friends who attended , and for the lovely lunch provided by the ladies of the Kinghan Church . |
| 16 | High academic success did not come immediately to Roberts — he went as an undergraduate to the University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA ) rather than the prestigious Cal-Tech , because his high school grades were too low for the latter . |
| 17 | Along with this distinction between ‘ public ’ and ‘ private ’ , the Wolfenden Committee also distinguished between ‘ crime ’ and ‘ sin ’ , making it clear that it was only concerned with the former . |
| 18 | An election under para 21(2) was not applicable in the latter case , since the work-in-progress within the meaning of that provision was not identical before and after the partnership dissolution . |
| 19 | On April 29 , 1990 , after two days and two nights of filibustering by Communists , Rocard forced through a guillotine measure , transforming the Renault motor company from a régie ( which worked for the " exclusive interest of the nation " , was not subject to the same financial controls as ordinary companies , did not until 1970 have any share capital , was able to implement more progressive wage and labour policies , and remained ultimately under Ministry of Industry control ) into an ordinary public limited company . |
| 20 | And it was a perfectly well-deserved honour which was not open to the same criticism as many of the other honours that Wilson made or unhappily was persuaded to make . |
| 21 | Marx 's and Engels 's search for theories of the evolution of society was not difficult in the latter half of the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | Apart from having to suffer , as she told herself , the royal family 's woefully reduced circumstances , she missed her mother and was genuinely concerned for the latter 's deteriorating health . |
| 23 | I was also pleased for the many , many people who had faith in me , even when , I guess , I had doubted myself . |
| 24 | John was also active during the same period as an assize and gaol delivery justice and managed to find time to act as one of the trusted servants of Edward 's wife , Queen Eleanor . |
| 25 | ‘ But it was really fun at the same time . |
| 26 | He was particularly vulnerable on the latter point , for he was generally believed to carry his wife around secretly on his travels in a box or coffin . |
| 27 | Also it was particularly strong in the latter years of the war , particularly in the last 18 months , when many , many first and second tour people were coming back to do a further tour , I have wept many a tear for some first class fellows that pestered me , pestered me beyond belief , writing to me every week . |
| 28 | In the early eighteenth century poverty was partially responsible for the many applications for military rank , for in the first half of the century even a commission in a new regiment , and the near certainty of half-pay at the conclusion of the war emergency , was attractive . |
| 29 | If Ballesteros was partially responsible for the all those individual successes , then Jacklin may deserve the credit not just for the Ryder Cup but for demonstrating that inspirational leadership , combined with an infinite capacity for detail , can produce a team better than the sum of its parts . |
| 30 | Conrad was well aware of the many facets of the word ‘ romance ’ — idealism towards women and events , the hero 's victory over extreme hazard , exotic details of place and circumstance . |