Example sentences of "were [verb] [prep] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social events for example were organised for the deaf rather than by deaf people themselves , mainly by hearing missioners ; deaf magazines like the Deaf Quarterly News and the British Deaf Times were largely aimed at a readership far too sophisticated for the average ordinary deaf person , written and edited by missioners ; the Guild of St. John of Beverley , an organisation of mainly clerical missioners interested in doing things for the deaf , flourished . |
| 2 | Deer , which were hunted by the rich therefore came to be associated with affluence ; and the peony , which was cultivated in the gardens of the nobility , was thus seen to symbolize the rank , wealth and well-being that accompanied this station in life . |
| 3 | 24 films were selected from the 60 originally used , these showed three exemplars from each of eight junctions . |
| 4 | By comparing the fineness of the Sutton Hoo coins themselves with this trend , it was possible to say that the basest and therefore latest coins in the purse were made in the 620s AD , thus defining the earliest probable date for the ship burial . |
| 5 | The Russians were helped through the fleeing southwards of many of those who might have obstructed them . |
| 6 | Raked expanses of shinshun — the black volcanic sand which covered great expanses of the G'bai desert to the south of the continent — were dotted with the occasional carefully pruned tree , and there were isolated rocks . |
| 7 | If the British proportion were increased in the 1990s then this would only have the effect of bringing Britain into line with her industrial competitors and , presumably , investing for the future . |
| 8 | This includes the unpaired datapoints and the repeated post-treatment datapoints which were excluded from the above pairwise analyses . |
| 9 | Coal tar linings were banned from the 1970s onwards after advice from WRC but , said a TWA spokesman , someone would now have to foot the bill for replacing the old linings ‘ and it looks like the ratepayer ’ . |