Example sentences of "we [was/were] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we were disappointed in the Good Report because er they did say it was one of the major issues , and yet they said that they did n't think any sweep in changes are needed which rather erm contradicted the earlier part of our report , we would have thought there were erm changes needed . |
| 2 | After half an hour 's walking the Age of Dinosaurs had come and gone , and by midday we were deep into the Palaeozoic . |
| 3 | ‘ We were shocked by the ethical immaturity of the board members , ’ she said yesterday . |
| 4 | We were two of the seventy people who took part in this course . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We were one of the first countries to ratify a new Council of Europe convention applying similar rules to all its Member States . |
| 7 | We were one of the first credit information providers to computerise our data resource and our understanding of technology has brought many benefits to our customer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Because we were one of the lowest pays in the factory which we do n't , our section does n't think it 's right because |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | There there was a build up in that I think we we were one of the last towns to have the problem . |
| 13 | Er in the U K we 've held our market position and it 's been a a pretty desperate market we were one of the few if not the only book seller who refused to er to yield better discount terms er , on the threat of er every , every book seller was every er publisher was threatened with erm not being stocked unless we gave bigger discounts . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Oh I think we were one of the worst hit was Cruisbruk was aye . |
| 16 | We were poor in the first half and slightly better in the second . |
| 17 | Richard Poulsen , the new president of Digital Europe , commented ‘ We were impressed by the ACRI system architecture design and the outstanding quality of its international team . |
| 18 | After a wait of about two hours we joined the long crocodile winding through corridors to the ballroom , with anxious ushers ensuring that we were all in the right order of presentation . |
| 19 | There 's quite a few around us because then we was not going onto a council estate from the one room , and we were all in the same boat together . |
| 20 | During the Thirties when we were all in the big bands , I remember the really fiery jazz clarinet he used to play with us in the Bag O' Nails , just about the first jazz club in Britain . ’ |
| 21 | Certainly we were delighted at the public support we gained in Amsterdam , which really established as accepted fact that Clause 28 could not happen here . |
| 22 | ‘ We were delighted with the remarkable confidence and expertise shown by the interpreters ’ , said Janine Harris of McDonald 's . |
| 23 | So we were delighted by the interested response of visitors . |
| 24 | ‘ I met her later in Los Angeles because we were involved in the musical Evita , ’ he explains . |
| 25 | When my boys first started school , we were aghast at the anti-English propaganda in the history books . |
| 26 | We were married for the formative period . |
| 27 | We were surprised at the continuing estimates of fixed costs , as we would have expected a minimal time investment after the first year of familiarisation , but given that training was identified as the major cost , it may be that this forms the bulk of the continuing cost . |
| 28 | I released the crew that had had no food or rest all day and we were ready for the first watch next day . ’ |
| 29 | The genius of balancing a menu meant that even yet we were ready for the next course . |
| 30 | There are already , within any company , enough people with egg on their faces who will argue that one more mighty heave will get us there , but it takes , I think , more courage to be prepared to acknowledge that we were wrong in the first place . |