Example sentences of "[was/were] [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to his slow , sleep-sodden mind , that there were hundreds of the horrid things and that they were all bearing down on him , a rushing curtain of green and gold and brown , with here and there wild , menacing eyes and reaching , clutching hands that were not hands at all , but nasty , skeletal twigs . |
| 2 | The overall correlations between the scores on the two tests were 0.80 for the two pairs of parallel mental tests ( N = 51 and N = 114 ) and 0.66 ( N = 104 ) for the written tests . |
| 3 | Louis Chiron ( Fra ) Hermann Lang ( Ger ) and Rudolf Caracciola ( Ger ) were three of the leading drivers of the era but the greatest of all drivers before the second war was Italy 's Tazio Nuvolari . |
| 4 | SWINGEING UK premium hikes were one of the major reasons for a dramatic profits turnround by insurance giant Commercial Union in the third quarter of 1992 . |
| 5 | So they actually took a very active role against it , and had been the allies of people like the National Consumers ' League on other issues , but on this one they really differed , and were one of the major blocks to passing the legislation . |
| 6 | They were one of the major successes in London 's Dance Umbrella Festival of 1989 . |
| 7 | Eh and perhaps were one of the major funders in the past I say General Portfolio until recently were the major funders er in the in the ninety ninety one but there 's been no company that 's been funding the theatre on a regular basis . |
| 8 | The Greens of Slovenia ( Zeleni Slovenije " ZS ) , which had won five out of 90 seats in parliamentary elections in December [ see ED 65/66 ] , were one of the five parties in the new coalition sworn in on Jan. 25 . |
| 9 | Indeed , the Abu Khadras were one of the largest families in Palestine , their orchards and property scattered between Jaffa , Jerusalem and Gaza . |
| 10 | The Downs were one of the first areas of Sussex to be colonised by man and were probably quickly cleared of their original vegetation of scrubby woodland . |
| 11 | Some difficulties were experienced in the interpretation of SCOTVEC guidance documents , but this was to be expected as we were one of the first colleges to be involved in developing units for the HNC Pilot Scheme , and telephone communication with the SCOTVEC Curriculum Development Officers , who were most helpful , usually resolved them for us . |
| 12 | We were one of the first countries to ratify a new Council of Europe convention applying similar rules to all its Member States . |
| 13 | Well we were lucky in that we 've been able to do , have a , a very good relationship with a company called well known in the marine side and they put in forty five thousand pounds into er the scheme and promised that before Christmas and that was reading the paper one day in November the , the Robert the National Heritage Minister saying that they may be , may , if you 're lucky , going to put some money into sport and er so we contacted them and we were one of the first sports to get , had money doubled as they say in the bingo hall , so we er we now have ninety , ninety thousand pounds and which I wh has been distributed or will be distributed in the , in the following way so that 's how we 're gon na spend it and er these er , the administration represent we were basically overwhelmed with enquiries and s we took on a person in order to , to do it , the normal R Y A staff had already got enough on so we took on a girl called Sara who answers all the queries on the Year of Youth Hotline and erm we are also running the boat shows , the four or five N B L challenge which is the flagship event for our sponsors which is er I wo n't go into the , the details but is a , a talent fight , talent spotting event for under sixteen year olds around the country and it provided fleet of dinghies , the prize for which is a dinghy which is not , not a bad prize I think you 'll agree . |
| 14 | This indicates that , were one of the other patterns to arise somehow , it would undergo a transition to the roll pattern . |
| 15 | We went to the Humana Hospital in London where we were one of the earliest trials of GIFT ( Gamate Intrafallopian Tube Transfer , a form of assisted conception ) . |
| 16 | As we saw in Chapter 3 , the attempts made by reforming governments during the Second Republic to carry out such reform were one of the principal causes of right-wing hostility to the Republic . |
| 17 | I work for the same pre project as Verity and I worked with five , fifteen , sixteen year old boys , just yesterday , and they were one of the best groups I 'd ever worked with because |
| 18 | That were one of the best nights in my life , the charge we gave Arthur he gave it straight back to us . " |
| 19 | As you may have guessed , we did n't get through that round , but getting to London meant that we were one of the best bands ( for our age — fifteen to sixteen years ) in East Anglia . |
| 20 | Other names include John Shorbridge , Henry Drury , Robert Donaldson and Welsh Brothers , who were one of the early firms involved in the formation of the Madeira Wine Association . |
| 21 | John Cordner and Alison Smith were one of the unlucky couples to have their wedding cancelled . |
| 22 | They were on Alida 's face and Alida felt a chill and shifted in her chair , as though Miss Cress , in her navy uniform and bib , were one of the old headmistresses . |
| 23 | Mice were one of the few things that Miss Fogerty could not endure . |
| 24 | ‘ The frets were one of the few things I actually bought for the guitar . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're right , Cleg , ’ Hari sipped the hot weak tea , enjoying every mouthful , the Jones family were one of the few families in Greenhill who could afford tea at all . |
| 26 | In the whole sorry saga , West Bromwich Albion were one of the few parties to emerge with dignity . |
| 27 | Here , in splendid isolation , emerged a tribe of Polynesians who were prepared to address problems such as this , and who moreover were one of the few peoples in the world to develop a system of writing . |
| 28 | So that I think has been the biggest , communication-wise , has been the biggest step forward in a more erm friendly and er happier sort of note we , we were one of the few brigades that started a band . |
| 29 | Yet the haplochromines were one of the biological wonders of the world : for within that single lake , they had diversified into 300 different species . |
| 30 | Launching a savage attack on the ‘ shameful ’ Budget in a cutting speech which silenced Tory backbenchers , Mr Smith said that taken together the tax increases announced in the Budget were one of the biggest hikes ever . |