Example sentences of "were [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must remember that this collection was put together in late 1955 , when most Jewish thinkers ' minds were somewhere between the atrocities of the Holocaust and the fearfully questionable use of the Bomb . |
| 2 | ‘ You were only on the outskirts of it , ’ said Caspar . |
| 3 | This meant that in the economic depression of the 1930s many Sri Lankan landowners were thus in the hands of foreign money-lenders to whom they had mortgaged their land . |
| 4 | By the end of the century American railways were largely in the hands of ten large companies ( although there remained several hundred small ones ) commanded by railway versions of merchant princes . |
| 5 | The overseas trade in cloth also contributed to the growing dominance of London , because exports were largely in the hands of the Merchant Adventurers ' Company , which was increasingly dominated by the London Mercers ' Company ( 64 ) . |
| 6 | The main reason why scholars have thought that the forged passages conferring the primacy were already in the documents in 1072 is that , if they were not there , Lanfranc could not have said that these papal letters were the ultimum robur of his whole case . |
| 7 | Her boys were always in the throes of what she euphemistically called summer colic . |
| 8 | They were still on the outskirts of the city centre itself and Donna wondered what something as strange as a waxworks was doing so far from the city centre , even what it was doing in a place like Portsmouth . |
| 9 | Interestingly , at the time of Burgess ' model , Sneinton and Radford were still on the outskirts of the city and this housing was for the workers at the Players , clothing , and Raleigh factories . |
| 10 | Western societies were still in the throes of an idealistic phase during which radical change seemed possible and very real social progress on the cards — the major advances in social legislation ( the legalization of divorce , abortion , and homosexuality , for example ) were all born in this age of this spirit . |
| 11 | It had to be or how was it that all the banks , shops , factories and insurance companies were still in the hands of Jews ? |
| 12 | In Britain the big cities were notoriously in the hands of the oligarchy of local businessmen . |
| 13 | The industrial disputes affecting local government services in 1979 ( the ‘ Winter of Discontent ’ ) were also in the minds of government ministers . |
| 14 | They were often in the hands of the local nobility , who took the revenues of such offices as one price of their loyalty to the king-duke . |
| 15 | My objections were originally on the grounds of freedom , rather than efficiency , although in the event , so far as Britain was concerned , socialism led more to stagnation than to tyranny . |
| 16 | Her family and friends were now at the margins of her new life . |
| 17 | But the general inability of the film industry to support and encourage creative adventure was the responsibility of the two major companies , which were now in the hands of former accountants who had not cast off their old ways of thinking , John Davis at Rank and Robert Clark at ABPC . |
| 18 | Their homes had belonged to them , had been taken away from them and were now in the hands of others . |
| 19 | In contrast , a state investment bank under the guidance of a planning apparatus could make funds available for socially useful investment projects , and where these projects were demonstrably in the interests of working people , yet were not profitable enough to attract capitalist enterprises , the state could either adjust the parameters of the market to make them profitable ( not always easy , but the state does have considerable means at its disposal to effect such adjustments ) or failing that , nationalise the enterprises concerned , on relatively strong ideological ground . |
| 20 | Indeed , the changes were very like the effects of irradiation with X- or ultra-violet rays , but this time they were being produced by a chemical instead of a physical agent . |