Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within months , Scargill 's warnings of substantial pit closures were transformed into reality : the NUM was unable to resist — with most of its members at the affected pits rapidly opting for the generous redundancy terms — and with the privatization of the electricity-generating industry at the end of the 1980s the ability of many British mines to compete was in question ; closures were instituted even in the more productive fields . |
| 2 | The progressively more strident and bellicose demands of Nazi Germany were matched only by the progressively more acquiescent and neutralist responses of France and Great Britain . |
| 3 | Female animals were used only for the less significant peace-offerings when animals of either sex could be sacrificed ( Lev . |
| 4 | Keith was able to appoint officers even to the coveted rank of captain , which was in that period for all practical purposes the ultimate promotion , since admirals were drawn automatically from the more senior members of the captains ' list . |
| 5 | The floorboards , the great sweeping staircase , its balustrade and newels , were fashioned out of the most expensive materials . |
| 6 | RUGBY Union rookies Tony Underwood and Martin Hynes received a boost to their England hopes yesterday when they were called up for the today 's game against Leicester . |
| 7 | When I arrived , the village was deathly quiet ; a few fishing boats were pulled up on the shingly beach but there was no activity . |
| 8 | Of course , that sort of thing has a really limited audience and , because we were living in Hawaii , there was nobody there to watch us anyway , so we were coming up with the most insane stuff we could do , basically just to please ourselves ! |
| 9 | They were to figure prominently among the more tragic case histories . |
| 10 | We were driven back through the nearly empty streets . |
| 11 | When starting out in the aircraft spares business , twenty Tiger Moth wings were acquired , which after a period in storage were deemed to be taking up too much space , so reluctantly they were taken out into the back yard and burnt . |
| 12 | Whatever the method chosen , these invitations were issued only for the more important — i.e. expensive — funerals ; those of lesser rank had to rely on word of mouth . |
| 13 | Those who had previously found part of their income from ironmaking were thrown back on the less adequate resources of Wealden farming , although a small number of nomads continued to burn charcoal for the London market , camping in branch and sod hovels as they migrated from wood to wood . |
| 14 | ‘ Meat and animal-based foods were put forward as the most nutritious form of sustenance and this propaganda changed the shape of generations . |
| 15 | A few people sat there also , talking , and some again were sitting around in the long lower lounge to the rear . |
| 16 | Following the report of its working group , recommendations concerning this were passed on to the newly appointed UKCC on its inception in July 1983 . |
| 17 | Three separate couples were sleeping together in the most overt and sordid way , one pair on a mattress in the theatre itself ( we called it " the bed of Sin " ) . |