Example sentences of "were [adv] the [adj] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rector , his wife and their helpers were not the only folk in Combsburgh ministering to the spiritual and educational needs of the population , for Methodism was , by 1848 , beginning to be a force in the parish . |
| 2 | The Regional Council also stated that joint boards were not the best means of providing major public services . |
| 3 | ‘ I said when I signed John and Barry Venison that they were possibly the best pair of full-backs in the English game . |
| 4 | Elizabeth agreed to do our programme after we 'd spent five years gently hammering at her representatives — and of course we were n't the only people after her , the whole world was beating at her door . |
| 5 | For another it implies their agreement with Korah that he and his followers were indeed the true people of God . |
| 6 | At first he did not identify Maud Bailey , and he himself was not in any way remarkable , so that they were almost the last pair at the wicket gate . |
| 7 | But in Birmingham the railways were never the principal means of transport for the urban commuter . |
| 8 | Men were therefore the first people with private property and soon they wanted to pass on this property to their children . |
| 9 | It was awfully sporting of IBM Corp to set up consultancy , systems integration and facilities management ventures in an attempt to put to profitable use the surplus skills of so many of its employees , and only curmudgeons asked if IBMers were actually the right people for the job : sad to say , the curmudgeons were right , and according to Computerworld , the head of the new IBM Consulting Group in White Plains , New York , Robert Howe , says that it is having to hire people from the likes of Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand , because as he told the paper , ‘ we 've tried IBMers , but frankly we 've had to send some home — some IBM people did n't get the notion of the service business — they did n't understand that we did n't want administrators and middle managers ’ . |