Example sentences of "[noun] were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why there is so much stress in Luke 's account of the life of Jesus that his deeds and words were at the inspiration of the Spirit ( Luke 4:1,14 ; 10:21 ; 23:46 , etc . ) . |
| 2 | Although the yolk sac will still be evident , there will not be a great deal of nutritious value left in it , as they will have been used up while the fry were in the pit developing . |
| 3 | When the AA van arrived they informed him they could not take his car home unless he or his girlfriend were in the recovery van . |
| 4 | I was either being kerb-crawled or a bunch of Quo fans were after the jacket . |
| 5 | Do you know the American President and his adviser were in the malai capital at the time ? ’ |
| 6 | Boar 's head and jugged hare were among the contemporary dishes served in front of the company 's original 18th-century shop front in Cornhill , which now stands in the museum . |
| 7 | I was never thin like that and your father was a great big man , his legs were like the trunk of a tree . ’ |
| 8 | Somehow she 'd been expecting resistance , something she had frequently encountered with Graham Rowell whenever she had attempted anything new , and it came as a shock to find that she and David Markham were on the same wavelength . |
| 9 | The stables were at the back of a courtyard and there was a crowd outside the door . |
| 10 | Military personnel were constitutionally debarred from voting , but members of the armed forces belonging to Golkar were among the 500 additional appointees to make up the 1,000-member Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat ( People 's Consultative Assembly ) , which would elect the President and Vice-President in March 1993 . |
| 11 | The Grammar schools were for the most able , bright academic pupils and were run along private school lines . |
| 12 | Very few pupils left before completing a full five-year course , and 40 per cent of the total pupil population of all the schools were in the sixth form . |
| 13 | Halsey and his associates show that while about 50 per cent of the pupils in private primary schools were from the professional class in the age cohorts 50–59 and 30–39 years , the corresponding proportion for the youngest age cohort , 20–29 years , was almost 70 per cent . |
| 14 | The platform steps were of the fixed type and roller blind destination boxes were mounted at each end above the upper deck rails . |
| 15 | If British industry were in the same powerful position as German industry , I might be a little more relaxed about economic monetary union , but I am worried about the time at which we are entering into new commitments . |
| 16 | Millett J had to deal with the argument that it would be a breach of the covenant if the defendant were during the remainder of the period of restraint , to solicit any business of any kind from any company which happened to have been a customer of the plaintiff company during the relevant period . |
| 17 | The differences between Mirror and Sun/Star readers were in the expected directions but quite small . |
| 18 | Unbreakable cups and space shuttles were among the uses of new engineering materials cited by an enthusiastic Dr Ian McColm ( Bradford ) at the NE Region Education Division ( NERED ) teacher 's conference at Sheffield Polytechnic in November . |
| 19 | It was also during this period that we had the strangest set of photographs taken of us , by Peter Christopherson who worked for a design company , Hipgnosis — whose offices were at the back of our Denmark Street HQ — and who later joined Throbbing Gristle , a band best known for tabloid spreads on their occult practices . |
| 20 | Magill 's offices were towards the top of a modest tower on midtown Madison . |
| 21 | Not all memorable sightings were on the seaward side of the wall . |
| 22 | Gabriel noticed how grey the hairs were on the back of Woolley 's neck . |
| 23 | The old craft trades were on the whole the first to organize trade societies , giving the labour movement in Scotland a particular character and ( some have argued ) a particular ideology in which the influence of thrift , temperance and respectability was very marked . |
| 24 | 5 of the bulls up for auction were from the Lower Hope estate near Leominster . |
| 25 | Staff at other travel firms were stunned as they heard clients were among the dead . |
| 26 | The company initially expressed doubts as to their liability to duty but were informed that the revenue were of the opinion that the duties were payable and that they would incur penalties if they did not pay . |
| 27 | The Inland Revenue were of the view " that if income had been paid away it could not be " relevant income " " because it would not be available for providing a benefit " . |
| 28 | ‘ At first I was dazzled , and covered my eyes , and there did n't seem the smallest change ; the roar of the Strand and the roar of the reef were like the same : hark to it now , and you can near the cabs and buses rolling and the streets resound . ’ |
| 29 | Some of the chateau guards were on the curtain walls , forcing back the scaling ladders placed there . |
| 30 | He reckoned the guards were in the small building at the easterly end of the runway . |