Example sentences of "the [noun sg] were [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority were in the private sector . |
| 2 | Boots continued to multiply , though the majority were in the expanding field of leisure walking . |
| 3 | It took Rosemary about a minute to answer the door , but , as all the flats in the building were of the same layout , Leith 's ‘ Ready ? ’ query never got said . |
| 4 | This meant that the public disputes and debates over policy that take place openly in the West were in the Soviet Union argued out within the party and in private . |
| 5 | The first lots to come into the ring were for the annual lease of ewes . |
| 6 | It took only three years for Totten to move St Johnstone through the pecking order to the Premier Division and the club were in the top half of the table when , on 14 December , the McDiarmid Park chairman , Geoff Brown , decided a change was necessary . |
| 7 | ‘ At first I was dazzled , and covered my eyes , and there did n't seem the smallest change ; the roar of the Strand and the roar of the reef were like the same : hark to it now , and you can near the cabs and buses rolling and the streets resound . ’ |
| 8 | Somebody told you that Vecchi and the girl were at the Regal Arms . |
| 9 | It would clearly be nice for science if the universe were in the no-boundary state , but how can we tell whether it is ? |
| 10 | A party from the Diocese were amongst the 3,000 present . |
| 11 | As the Vice-chairman , who was re-elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf . |
| 12 | Draper 's own favourite records of the moment were by the Brazilian guitarist Egberto Gismonti , Joni Mitchell and the virtuoso jazz pianist Keith Jarrett . |
| 13 | Frank had accused me before of ‘ messing up ’ the relay , and had told me that the rest of the team were of the same opinion . |
| 14 | Plays in the Globe were in the open air and always had to be in daylight , but the Blackfriars was a building with a roof . |
| 15 | The activity of submerged vegetation and phytoplankton were among the biological markers ; salinity and the presence of herbicides in the water were among the chemical ones . |
| 16 | ( Waddington et al. , 1990 , show that in the Nottinghamshire community which they surveyed the immigrant and the ‘ local ’ miners were spatially segregated within the housing stock and that most of the miners who joined the strike were among the recent immigrants whose home lives were somewhat separate from those of the rest of the community . ) |
| 17 | But the last three races of the season were in the new Tyrrell . |
| 18 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 19 | ‘ The men involved in the rescue were in the most danger and were in the worst condition , because of heat and fatigue , when it was all over . |
| 20 | At two o'clock sharp the class assembled , including Miss Honey who noted that the jug of water and the glass were in the proper place . |
| 21 | Almost 80 per cent of an estimated 17,000,000 refugees in the world were in the 47 countries classified by the UN as LDCs . |
| 22 | The couple were in the Caribbean when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev was deposed in an abortive coup . |
| 23 | The strongest youth cultures of the century were in the 1950s and 1960s , and now that the members of this generation are over the border into middle age , they are showing an egotistical , but maybe quite a healthy reluctance to let go of the limelight . |
| 24 | The guerrillas were helped , however , by an educated native who discovered that Bernard Callinan was a Roman Catholic and was persuaded that others in the Company were of the same faith . |
| 25 | The company were among the first , post-war , to use front-wheel drive for larger cars . |
| 26 | The Bugis were amongst the great seafaring tribes of South-East Asia . |
| 27 | The major results of the visit were in the economic sphere , including a deal on the conversion of military plants to civilian production and the unfreezing of US$6,000 million of credits to the Soviet Union from Italy , of which 80 per cent would go to Russia . |