Example sentences of "were [adj] in the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought you and he were interested in the same things . ’ |
| 2 | You were interested in the same thing . |
| 3 | The cuffs and the waistband were ribbed in the same colour . |
| 4 | After the attempted coup in July-August [ see pp. 37606-07 ] , concerns over security were paramount in the latter part of 1990 . |
| 5 | He was also concerned about the reliability of the data : for example , that no measure of agreement was given for observations made when pairs of inspectors were present in the same classroom . |
| 6 | In 1895 , when the ratemahatmaya of Katugampola Hatpattu in Kurunagala complained that Low Countrymen from Chilaw district were stealing cattle and removing them to their own district , the Low Country mudaliyar concerned replied that the charge was false , and that Kandyans were involved in the few cases of cattle stealing . |
| 7 | I pointed out that Sara , Greg and Barney were all in the same position : they had n't chosen to be born to us . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Instead of a series of national financial systems linked by a few operators buying and selling credit across the exchanges , we now have a global system , in which national markets , physically separate , function as if they were all in the same place . |
| 10 | At Leicester , for instance , the changing benches , bath and lavatory were all in the same room . ’ |