Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These feelings of isolation and insecurity , combined with a belief in a ‘ special destiny ’ , were developed further by the Marxist-Leninist ideology with which the Soviet leadership was associated after 1917 . |
| 2 | Long spines on the exterior of the shell were developed especially during the Carboniferous . |
| 3 | The parallels here are with Sheffield before huge new steel works were erected there during the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | The single cards too were placed variously in the top half , bottom half and crossing the central strip . |
| 5 | The prison , where some of the dissidents who opposed the Shahs rule were held by SAVAK , was painted up , the street were cleaned , pots of flowers were placed all along the main roads , birds in cages were hung from lamp posts , shopkeepers were given blue coats to wear . |
| 6 | To begin with plasmas were heated solely by the electric current flowing through the discharge , in a way similar to the ohmic heating of a wire element . |
| 7 | His feelings of inferiority were compounded only by the vague sense of unease that his careerism and social mobility had possibly been misguided from the outset . |
| 8 | When the Hooligans first put in an appearance , the floggers and die-hards had been much in evidence , but they were eased aside with the growing recognition that Hooliganism was a pointer towards a general dislocation among the youth — and not just a ‘ hard core ’ — and that the problem was therefore immune to a narrow penal response . |
| 9 | The songs of the whales carry through the water , over long distances with astonishing clarity , and were heard clearly through the wooden hulls of the old whaling ships in calm weather , giving rise to the belief that the sounds were the songs of mermaids . |
| 10 | They were jounced mercilessly on the narrow fitted bench . |
| 11 | Even by 1926 party contacts between the capital and Smolensk were to remain mostly at the written rather than at the human level . |
| 12 | By 1637 the Church family , from whom the mill takes its name , were in residence and were to remain so until the early part of the 18th century . |
| 13 | When the car became an open tourer , the hood and supports were tucked away behind the leather-covered front seats and concealed by a sheet of green hessian . |
| 14 | Three large gravity-feed fuel tanks were situated immediately beneath the upper wing centre-section , each tank feeding an individual engine . |
| 15 | On May 7 the Executive Yuan lifted martial law on the offshore islands of Matsu and Chinmen ( Quemoy ) , both of which were situated close to the Chinese mainland . |
| 16 | The proposals were received coolly by the African National Congress ( ANC ) whose deputy president , Nelson Mandela , warned that the time had not yet come for the lifting of sanctions . |
| 17 | Even if she were to go voluntarily before the next election , that could only be very bad news for him . |
| 18 | Of the surviving children of William Charles and Anne , five were baptised together on the same day ( 10 July 1817 ) in their father 's original parish at the miniature City church of St Ethelburga , Bishopsgate . |
| 19 | It was as though his hand and his whole arm were plunged deep within the hot tight birth-canal of some angry animal to manipulate the contents of a packed , pulsing womb . |
| 20 | It 's not that Binbrook was such an important station to warrant all this staff , but as the size of the RAF contracted more and more , Waafs were posted there from the closing satellite stations and at one point there were twelve of us . |
| 21 | Somehow , he had moved closer , and their thighs were pressed together on the wooden seat . |
| 22 | Now the white painted bookcases which reached to the ceiling were filled only on the first two shelves with incongruous modern volumes with used-looking dust-covers . |
| 23 | Charles the Cheesemonger 's major contribution to the history of his side of the family was to ensure that the name continued ; not in Frome , where Titfords were to disappear completely by the 1860s , but in London . |
| 24 | So , if South Korea were attacked today by the inferior ground forces of North Korea plus their Air Corps , I feel that South Korea would take a bloody nose . |
| 25 | It came in the spring , when men 's minds were occupied more with the new wave of cattle-fever than with wars far overseas . |
| 26 | Tumour necrosis factor positive cells were located mainly in the deeper lamina propria , whereas the interleukin 1 signal was diffuse , but predominantin subepithelial macrophages . |
| 27 | In 1860 eleven independent Cumbrian rifle corps were grouped together as The 1st Admin Battalion of Cumberland Rifle Volunteers . |
| 28 | With rare exceptions , they were nominated essentially by the local aristocracy , particularly by the Duke of Newcastle . |
| 29 | By July 1916 the contractors , Dawes and Bowler , reported that the building was ready for occupation and with the help of members of the Bedford Volunteer Red Cross Detachment , the patients were carried across to the new infirmary . |
| 30 | Of the seventy cases which were reported only in the local newspapers in the sample , there were six cases ( 9 per cent ) where the coverage lasted more than one day . |