Example sentences of "they [adv] were [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | State legislatures and Congress are no longer gripped as they once were by the dead hand of privilege . |
| 2 | If the reasons given by the chief officer of police are such that a court concludes that no reasonable officer could form the judgment that serious disruption would ensue , it is possible that the courts will prove readier to intervene than they ever were under the previous legislation , which referred to ‘ serious public disorder ’ only . |
| 3 | So they too were at the papal Curia ready with their reply when the monks of Canterbury arrived . |
| 4 | And he could recall seeing one or two small oils hung in local restaurants and pubs , slap-dash in technique and economical of paint , but so different from the prettified watercolours that it was hard to believe that they too were by the same hand . |
| 5 | Campbell does not mention women being employed in glove making but they certainly were in the main provincial centres of Oxfordshire , Somerset and Worcestershire , especially from the late eighteenth century when this manufacture along with lace making and straw plaiting expanded rapidly on the basis of cheap female hand labour . |