Example sentences of "were [adv] [adj] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five weeks later , on 13 November , Southey and Edith Fricker were secretly married in the same church , Southey setting off almost immediately afterwards to spend six months with his uncle in Portugal , leaving Edith behind . |
| 2 | Birth and death , the ultimate holding and letting go , were paradoxically present at the same moment . |
| 3 | Why they were so good and why they were so bad at the same time . ’ |
| 4 | Daimyo took most of their income in the form of rice , and warrior stipends , too , were normally payable in the same commodity . |
| 5 | Inevitably , unintended pregnancies were more prevalent among the same groups . |
| 6 | If two different species showed the same coloration , this merely confirmed that they were both subject to the same orthogenetic trend . |
| 7 | Secret sales of property were also subject to the same lambasting . |
| 8 | Both she and Dr Brewis were also concerned about the many patients on their wards who came from outside Newcastle : they knew even less about the arrangements for community care within those districts . |
| 9 | But Soviet leaders were primarily interested in the former as a means to promote the latter among the ASEAN states . |
| 10 | The students who had done the teaching were very critical of the own efforts . |
| 11 | Even today weather reports are sometimes incorrect owing to the vagaries of our climate , but then , with the whole of western Europe blanked out ( thanks to Hitler ) , together with most of Ireland , we were very dependent on the few Atlantic weather ships and ( eventually ) our own trained eyes to tell us what was coming . |
| 12 | Tom 's widow and son flew over for the service and were very appreciative of the many old friends who attended , and for the lovely lunch provided by the ladies of the Kinghan Church . |
| 13 | High academic success did not come immediately to Roberts — he went as an undergraduate to the University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA ) rather than the prestigious Cal-Tech , because his high school grades were too low for the latter . |