Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cups and saucers were arranged at just the right angle beside the small plates , and the bone-handled knives were correctly positioned to the right of each plate . |
| 2 | Further analysis showed no differences in results between schools in which the projects were taught for only the minimum time compared with those that taught it for longer . |
| 3 | RJR Nabisco 's plans to buy back $1.5 billion of its debt were received in much the same way . |
| 4 | In relation specifically to GP 's referrals others were consulted with exactly the same frequency whether male or female referrals . |
| 5 | Our third report outlined a number of schemes and initiatives which were intended to further the general aim of closer links with parents and the community : the appointment of a team of home-school liaison assistants ( later redesignated home-school liaison officers ) ; the Portage scheme , described in more detail below ; in-service support courses ; and a wide range of everyday practice , including a great diversity of activities ( forty-seven in all ) which are listed in Table 5.1 . |
| 6 | Yet they remained , practically and culturally , a fractional formation , and this can be seen especially with the advantage of hindsight , since it is now evident that they were expressing at once the highest values of the bourgeois tradition and the necessary next phase of a bourgeois social and cultural order . |
| 7 | Neither the proposals for provinces nor for local councils were accepted by either the Labour or Conservative governments . |
| 8 | Thanks to Halley 's efforts valuable observations of this kind were made at both the northern and southern edges of the path of the eclipse in 1715 . |
| 9 | Of course , the actual truth is that there 's different levels in everything , and while some of the worst Hawaiian records were released in the '40s and '50s , some of the greatest Hawaiian records were made at exactly the same time . |
| 10 | Referrals were made to either the local Drug Detoxification Unit or the Regional Drug Dependency Unit . |
| 11 | The pie committee saw all their stipulations were met but attempts to stop it were made until almost the last minute . |
| 12 | Several changes in the tax treatment of pensions with particular implications for high earners were introduced in both the 1987 and 1989 Budgets . |
| 13 | Portsmouth were restricted to just the odd chance — Lee Chapman almost sneaking a third . |
| 14 | And although the guys knew each other pretty well , they did n't know they were each coming to me , and they also did n't know they were asking for essentially the same mods ! |
| 15 | If you look carefully at this table , you will see that the combination of + and — values for each phoneme is different ; if two sounds were represented by exactly the same + 's and — 's , then by definition they could not be different phonemes . |
| 16 | Subsequently borrowings were repaid in both the third and fourth quarters , from a combination of a reduction in liquid resources and the measures taken to return to a positive cash flow . |
| 17 | After some initial problems had been overcome the Garratts were outstandingly successful , running on all gauges from 2 feet to 5 feet 6 inches on gradients up to 1 in 20 or more , usually at modest speeds on heavily curved and graded routes , but capable of 75–80 m.p.h. on the Algerian expresses which were headed by probably the fastest articulated locomotives ( 4–6–2+2–6–4 ) ever built . |
| 18 | Little is known of his early life , except that he was the son of a judge 's clerk , of upper-middle class background , and that the male members of the family were engaged in either the legal or ecclesiastical professions . |
| 19 | Significant increases in those claiming supplementary benefit were recorded from both the unemployed and from single-parent families , whereas the number of pensioners claiming had decreased ( see Figure 5.1 , page 80 ) . |
| 20 | Throughout the decade the numbers in the School were maintained at almost the maximum level ( 100 in the Upper , Grammar School and 50 in the Lower , Free School ) ; more land was bought by the Company for playgrounds and gardens ; an extra room was added to Mr. Howell 's house at a cost of 150 . |
| 21 | But the Guildford Four were released at just the wrong time , and the government quietly put the scheme on the back burner — indefinitely , it would seem . |
| 22 | Left panel : Transgenic lines were established for both the -300 and -55 human NF-L promoter deletions . |
| 23 | Besides , the subsidies implicit in the incentives were insufficient to offset the anti-export bias created by the NEP ‘ padding ’ and protectionism and were aimed at only the largest enterprises . |