Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Danish pig prices were stable during the latter half of June , at just under 102p/kg , but started dropping about 1p/kg a week from the beginning of July . |
| 2 | You were interested in the same thing . |
| 3 | The cuffs and the waistband were ribbed in the same colour . |
| 4 | After the attempted coup in July-August [ see pp. 37606-07 ] , concerns over security were paramount in the latter part of 1990 . |
| 5 | We also tested the methylation pattern of expressing ( -300bp promoter deletion ) and non-expressing ( -55bp promoter deletion ) transgenes and found that both transgene were unmethylated to the same extent ( data not shown ) . |
| 6 | He was also concerned about the reliability of the data : for example , that no measure of agreement was given for observations made when pairs of inspectors were present in the same classroom . |
| 7 | If human eyes were sensitive to the same radiation as the goldfish 's retina , we would see the infra-red remote-control beams that operate televisions and videos . |
| 8 | The judgment held that men and women were entitled to the same pension from the same age . |
| 9 | She subsided wordlessly , wondering ironically how many times it was possible for the same heart to break before there was nothing left of it . |
| 10 | The dating of Romano-British mosaics is not yet sensitive enough to exclude the possibility that the regular grid arrangements ( already discussed ) , the simple " or quincunx-panel lozenge formats , and these centralised designs were not broadly contemporary ( that each was possible at the same time , depending on the taste or knowledge of the client or mosaicist ) . |
| 11 | Some like Sunday long ago , the child Simon had crept up to his Indian step-grandmother when she was asleep in the same wheelchair and thrown a blanket over her , shouting that she was a canary in a cage . |
| 12 | Elizabeth Maginnis , the convener , said the timetable for change — starting at the start of next school year and to cover all schools by April 1996 — was unrealistic at the same time as local government was being reformed . |
| 13 | Sarah Evans , a manager in Price Waterhouse 's litigation and special services department , was cross-examined on the same evidence . |
| 14 | Motivated by an 1841 paper of Boole , Cayley , who was interested at the same time in algebraic aspects of projective geometry , began seeking invariants of homogeneous forms of degree n in two and more variables . |
| 15 | He was proud that the invisible spirit animating the slight frame had dared to conceive the intended deed as his duty ; but he was afraid at the same time that he would lack the courage to endure the pain and carry it through . |
| 16 | Though a crown body , it did not operate as such and thus was subject to the same planning control as private developers . |
| 17 | Horton Hospital , located in Epsom , and together with Banstead one of a ring of mental hospitals in the vicinity known as the ‘ Epsom cluster ’ , was subject to the same process of decline and was also in an impossible location to offer community care . |
| 18 | And although it was customary for the same actor to double as Mr Darling and Captain Hook the way St Ives played them there seemed little difference between the two — he romped in the nursery and he sky-larked aboard the Jolly Roger . |
| 19 | From Iran turquoise was carried as far afield as west Caucasia , where it occurred in the Maikop barrow in the Kuban , and north Mesopotamia , where it was present in the same tomb at Tepe Gawra as lapis lazuli . |
| 20 | The general categories of applications reported were as follows ; in most cases more than one category was present in the same organization . |
| 21 | ( Spinoza was opposed to the more life denying aspects of the Calvinism of his time . ) |
| 22 | In August Maureen 's friend Mary Mullen was married and a girl who worked with Anne was married on the same day . |
| 23 | was impressed by the same consideration . |
| 24 | ‘ Dr Armitage , I confess I had hoped for a little more from someone who knew Dr Wetherby so well and was resident at the same convention . |
| 25 | I think erm previously we misunderstood that point , we thought the hundred and forty five hectares was footloose in the same area of search for the settlement and |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it was important throughout the latter part of the last century and well into this one . |
| 27 | I knew Nour was beautiful with the same sort of tutored , obedient awareness that led one to comprehend the merits of , say , the head of Nefertiti , but I did n't care . |
| 28 | It is on this basis that the New Critics argued that criticism was capable of the same degree of objectivity and rigour as traditional scholarship could achieve . |
| 29 | This did not mean , as some had assumed , that Man might recklessly pillage Nature for what he sought ; indeed , Nature was deserving of the more respect because it was a divine creation . |
| 30 | As soon as I realised they thought I was knackered from the same route they had just walked , I was speechless with indignation . |