Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smyth ( 1978 ) in Alternatives to Animal Experiments , points out that several of its techniques , such as mass spectrometry , gas chromatography , and the use of isotopes in biomedical research , were developed much earlier in the century on the grounds of simple efficiency . |
| 2 | The forthright tones of Quentin Oates were heard more recently in The Bookseller suggesting that ‘ a sensible , enthusiastic feature ’ about adventure stories would do a power of good to readership and publishers ' advertising alike . |
| 3 | The pope 's claims to decide on appeal were witnessed most clearly in the Canterbury election . |
| 4 | By the end of 1922 the size of the guberniia Party organization totalled 5,925,9 compared with , for instance , 3,286 local officials of the Commissariat for agriculture , most of whom were not Party members , but who , by the very nature of their work as surveyors , land-reclaimers , timber and livestock experts , were scattered more widely round the rural areas than were Party workers . |
| 5 | More shots , but this time the gouts of white smoke were scattered more thinly along the hedgerow . |
| 6 | These tendencies were carried much further by the younger men , Gibbons , Coprario , the younger Ferrabosco , Thomas Lupo , and a number of others , who would base a short section on a popular morris-dance tune ( as Gibbons does in a four-part viol fantasy ) and use motives more clear-cut in rhythmic profile sequentially as Giovanni Gabrieli does . |
| 7 | Although Leavis 's prescriptions were addressed most directly to the situation at Cambridge , their immediate impact was greatest within the newer university institutions . |
| 8 | Following the exile , it should be recalled that women , for a complex of pragmatic reasons , were confined almost exclusively to the domestic realm . |
| 9 | With regard to a carbon tax he said at Energy Questions on Monday that if that ’ were done unilaterally ahead of the rest of the world , it could put British industry at a severe disadvantage . ’ |
| 10 | Corinth 's north-western interests were threatened more directly by the affair of Corcyra , which is one of the two ‘ alleged reasons ’ which Thucydides does describe fully . |
| 11 | Some elements in Bonhoeffer 's criticism were met very adequately by the later development of Barth 's thought as the stress on revelation was counterbalanced by others , and the humanity rather than the otherness of God came to the fore . |
| 12 | CONTRASTING faces of Scottish rugby were presented here yesterday as the build-up for this weekend 's glittering international sevens hots up . |
| 13 | The silos , which were built almost exclusively for the storage of milling wheat have a capacity of 33,000 tons . |
| 14 | Most of the known or likely breeding localities were searched fairly thoroughly during the period , so a decline in the breeding population seems apparent . |
| 15 | Some of the former private enterprise managers ( notably E. H. E. Woodward on the Central Authority and Harry Randall at the London Board ) had seen from the beginning that proper decentralisation required that the Boards relate capital expenditure to revenue-earning potential in order to retain direct control of their financial viability ; and outside commentators were sometimes surprised that the Boards ' decisions on capital expenditure to meet statutory obligations were made quite separately from the revenue estimates which determined their profitability . |
| 16 | These were made almost certainly in the twelfth century , by Bishop Gut , founder of the cathedral , as a Latin inscription asserts , though there has been argument that they must be Gallo-Roman since the subject-matter is profane and improper for the patronage of a Christian bishop . |
| 17 | Their efforts were rated very highly by the Telegraph judges . |
| 18 | Thus , at Great Houghton near Barnsley Sir Edward Rhodes built a chapel c. 1650 in his own grounds and Dissenting forms of worship were used there well into the eighteenth century , but it was reported at an archbishop 's visitation in 1743 that the family had returned to the Anglican fold and ‘ This Chapel is now united to the Church of England ’ . |
| 19 | One result of this attitude was that the strain placed by warfare on the economies of most European States was less than the mere number of men engaged in fighting might seem to indicate , since these were drawn so largely from the least productive elements of society . |
| 20 | These beliefs were rooted far deeper in the past than attitudes to taxation or to education , and they were to remain tenacious into late NEP despite mounting persecution , as will be seen when this same area is re-examined later . |
| 21 | The tests developed by the project team were not related specifically to the curriculum operated by the schools associated with the project but they were based almost exclusively on the topics in the Cockcroft foundation list . |
| 22 | Between Salisbury 's retirement in 1902 and the outbreak of the Great War the individualist associations , their spokesmen , and their ideas were relegated even further to the margins of Conservative politics : only two Conservatives of note allied themselves with the individualist groups , while Dicey came to regard the Conservative party as collectivist Quislings . |
| 23 | As he dumped his cycle in the alley his high spirits were raised yet again by the glorious aroma of fried onions wafting through the back kitchen window . |
| 24 | Their hopes were raised still further by the death of Robert Bruce in 1329 and the accession of his son David II who was only five years old . |
| 25 | Then it roared and tried to stand up , and it was n't until it was nearly upright that it found that its feet were tied very firmly to the legs of its chair . |
| 26 | Since the unions were tied so closely to the Labour Party , this was important for the party 's standing in the election . |
| 27 | Crosslinking of DNA ( 386–400 ) to NCp7 mutants ( fig. 2A , lanes 5–16 ) was seen with all of the mutants used , although NCp7B ( lanes 8–10 ) and NCp7C ( lanes 11–13 ) were crosslinked more efficiently to the DNA than NCp7A ( lanes 5–7 ) or NCp7D ( lanes 14–16 ) . |
| 28 | If a block of Pycoma were lit simultaneously all over the top surface , say by a fast-running sheet-fuse , the combustion zone would travel slowly down through the block . |
| 29 | Not only that , but because the Davis Cup ties were scheduled so soon after the Australian Open , there was no time for Holland 's Richard Krajicek , or Germany 's Michael Stich to recover in time from injuries to take part . |
| 30 | Propagated contractions , which are thought to be predominantly under voluntary control , were detected more often in the proximal oesophagus whereas non-propagated contractions prevailed in the mid and distal esophagus . |