Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [det] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Referring to a comrade of her son 's , she wrote : ‘ This boy and mine were together all through the African war and only separated when they were preparing for France . |
| 2 | No one else knew of these records , they were just another among the many secrets the two shared . |
| 3 | Clearly , even if the acts were not a new departure in terms of the basic question of legality , they were hardly more of the same . |
| 4 | The initiatives in evangelism were always those of the Holy Spirit . |
| 5 | Be that as it may , there were still those in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who still continued to look on Siberia as an exploited colony whose population and resources were recklessly plundered and despoiled by the central government , whose merchantry continued to suffer under the ‘ economic yoke of Moscow ’ and the commercial interests of the centre , whose native peoples were many of them doomed to extinction , where such civil and political rights and modern judicial institutions as existed in tsarist Russia were largely denied to the population of Siberia , where the cultural and educational infrastructure was inadequate for the region 's needs , and which was still used as a distant dumping ground for the criminal sweepings of the rest of the empire . |
| 6 | There were still those in the skilled , supervisory , and managerial groups , who might have sought alternative employment and stood a better chance than the majority of finding it , who chose instead to take early retirement . |
| 7 | ‘ Dead end ’ jobs were now some of the only kind available for most people . |
| 8 | Some of the most satisfied women were actually those with the smallest number of aids and amenities . |
| 9 | My sympathies , however , were very much with the wretched fellow who had the courage to own up that he could not face the prospect any longer of flying against a lethal enemy . |
| 10 | This growing feeling during the first half of 1937 that the forces of fascism were very much on the offensive and that the initiative was gradually slipping away from the Republican cause was abruptly and symbolically confirmed in July 1937 . |
| 11 | There was so much going on , and in corporate finance you felt that you were very much at the sharper end . ’ |
| 12 | And that was the traditional sort of way in Galashiels , it was rather more like the rural areas than what the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow are , the toilets were just outside where the old dry toilets had been . |
| 13 | Other factors were deployed , but the standpoint of the report was predominantly that of the legal profession and local affinities , rather than the interests of the accused or the more efficient despatch of business . |
| 14 | And then we can remember when there was so many of the British aircraft going and coming . |
| 15 | I agree now , yes , it was just all in the same paragraph , and it just sort of a bit odd . |
| 16 | He worried about that , but even if it had succeeded simply because it was just another of the ridiculous and unbelievable antics in a ‘ Carry On ’ film , succeed it did . |
| 17 | It 's tempting to say that the bigger model was just more of the same , with added reverb , but that would n't be true . |
| 18 | There was still enough of the egotistical writer in him to protest at its destruction . |
| 19 | The mouth of the enormous cave was also that of the underground river . |
| 20 | This was as much on the ancient principle of ‘ to the victor , the spoils ’ , as in any fear that the new occupant would carry his or her prejudices into the chair . |
| 21 | The re-establishment of religious communities within Anglicanism has taken place only since the middle of the last century , and the tradition upon which their founders drew was mainly that of the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 22 | The top of the stone was now all at the same level . |
| 23 | The specific activity of the MNF-H was twice that of the HNF-L probe . |
| 24 | In rural areas , the number of private BTS houses was twice that in the public sector . |
| 25 | Asian children performed just as well as other children in the six local education authorities but their admission rate to university was almost half of the corresponding figure for school leavers in all the state schools in England . |
| 26 | The general moral framework was unquestionably that of the Christian tradition . |
| 27 | In countries like Brazil , the original financing had come so heavily from foreign loans that by the mid-1980s , SOE debt was over half of the total foreign commercial debt . |
| 28 | The vision which entranced him was therefore that of the ideal District Officer , as conceived by the District Officer himself — permanently on tour , manfully resistant to bureaucratic interference from headquarters , and ‘ winning the trust and loyalty of [ his ] charges by [ his ] integrity , fairness , firmness , and likableness ’ . |
| 29 | Outside critics , of which the most devastating was the Oxford economist Ian Little , had no difficulty in showing that their arguments ‘ fail to wriggle out of the obvious ’ , which was that much of the domestic thermal load was being sold below cost and was thereby winning heating markets which could be more efficiently supplied by alternative fuels at lower overall national cost . |
| 30 | Being a 60s film star and a member of an impressive theatrical family was too much for the young James Fox , seen here with his brother Robert and their mother Angela . |