Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crops were stacked right up to the roof ridge , or close to it , so using almost all the roof space . |
| 2 | The early Pop artists — Lichtenstein , of course , but Warhol too — were fascinated early on by the possibilities of comic illustration . |
| 3 | Funny thing was they had no gardens and were built right up against the old City Rampart . |
| 4 | When local government was reorganised in the mid 1970s , significant changes were made late on in the process but the Regional Council has been advised that this was the exception rather than the rule . |
| 5 | These were dragged laboriously up to the terrace , and there ranged along the line of the filled-in ditches . |
| 6 | In Yorkshire , Shipley was one of the centres of Communist activity but most of its members were arrested early on in the dispute . |
| 7 | Sales were hit early on by the Gulf war and profits fell 19 p.c. to £2.8m . |
| 8 | The notes were taken early on in the research when I was chiefly concerned with documenting pollution control work , thus they should suggest something of the nature of the job — routine tasks as well as special problems — which an officer can encounter on a summer 's day . |
| 9 | The polish and the dusters were folded neatly back into the mess tin . |
| 10 | They were carved laboriously out of the solid rock hundreds of years ago for the purpose of pounding soe , or ground bait , a practice that continued until late in the 19th century . |