Example sentences of "[adj] were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to him that if this were over the Front he would be a gift for even the stupidest German pilot . |
| 2 | Speaking of hearing in Gertrude Stein 's prose the ‘ hypnotic ’ ‘ rhythms ’ of ‘ the saxophone ’ he concluded that if this were of the future , then the future was ‘ of the barbarians ’ . |
| 3 | Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith . |
| 4 | After this , Pound 's relations with England and the English were for the most part an aspect of his relations with that one of his erstwhile protégés who had become , surprisingly , a pillar of the English establishment — Eliot , editor of the Criterion . |
| 5 | In 1987 , the number of new houses added to the total stock was only 212,000 , and of this number only 34,000 were in the public sector . |
| 6 | That 's alright , that 's ok were in the garden |
| 7 | Forms are stored in separate boxes according to their accession ( ’ D ’ ) numbers ; thus all of the D 21,000 series were in one box , and the D ‘ , 000s were in the next one , and so on . |
| 8 | On May 23 the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs , Dhari Abdullah al Othman said that the trails " currently taking place in public were within the framework of the law " and described as " tendentious " reports which suggested otherwise . |
| 9 | Of full-time professionals playing for a major club like Sheffield United in 1934–5 only four out of twenty-one were on the maximum wage . |
| 10 | Few were in the market for the Kuwaiti shares , but few were in the market at all with such an overhang : only 2.9m shares changed hands compared with Tuesday 's 30m . |
| 11 | Few were in the market for the Kuwaiti shares , but few were in the market at all with such an overhang : only 2.9m shares changed hands compared with Tuesday 's 30m . |
| 12 | A few were in the hands of private companies , but the majority were owned either by the Federal or state governments . |
| 13 | Quite a few were in the printing and paper trades as folders , envelope makers , envelope stampers etc . |
| 14 | Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval . |
| 15 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 16 | Some of the organisations studied had upgraded the status of large numbers of their temporary workers for this reason in the past , some were in the process of doing so . |
| 17 | Surgical causes were mostly postoperative but some were in the category of acute surgical admissions . |
| 18 | By mid-February only 47 thrifts had been closed or sold , another 300 were under the management of the Resolution Trust Corporation ( RTC ) and 200 more were expected to be taken over soon . |
| 19 | Half of the sentences were of the form B because A ( as in the above example ) , and half were of the form Because A , B ( e.g. , Because the sun started to shine , the snowman started to melt ) . |
| 20 | Of 24,200 workers thrown on the dole last month , more than half were from the once prosperous region . |
| 21 | A few days later an Englishman had spoken to him on the phone , saying an envelope of pictures Manningham might find interesting were on the way by express registered post . |
| 22 | The , admittedly the French and the British were on the right side , they won the war , but France er was er battered in the war , lost an awful lot of people , it 's a common and although this country , although , you know , fighting in Britain , the er , British economy was also badly damaged . |
| 23 | The following were among the names in the new year honours list : |
| 24 | The following were among the more prominent : Hrvatski Demokratski Blok ( HDB — Croat Democratic Bloc ) ; Hrvatska Demokratska Zajednica ( HDZ — Croatian Democratic Union , Slavko Degoricija pres . ) ; |
| 25 | The following were among the findings reported at a conference in Anchorage , Alaska : — brain damage in seals similar to that found in people who die from solvent abuse ; this would have disoriented the animals and affected basic physiological functions like breathing ; it is suspected that many seals drowned , but because dead seals sink an accurate assessment of deaths has not been possible ; — the disappearance of a group of killer whales that had lived in the sound , possibly also due to the " solvent abuse effect " ; — deaths among sea otters not only from hypothermia ( because oil stuck to their fur destroyed its insulating properties ) but from emphysema caused by breathing in toxic fumes and from liver and kidney damage caused by ingesting oil ; — failure to breed among many species of birds since the accident , either because of the death rate within colonies at the time ( in the case of guillemots ) or because continued exposure to oil-polluted food sources is preventing reproduction ; — death tolls of up to 40 per cent for eggs laid by salmon , herring and other fish , and deformities and withered muscles among fish that did hatch . |
| 26 | Gorbachev on Dec. 4 had announced to the USSR Supreme Soviet emergency plans to import basic foodstuffs to the value of 2,100 million roubles ( US$1,050 million at the new commercial exchange rate ) to ensure that supplies in the first quarter of 1991 were at the levels of the same period in 1990 . |
| 27 | Statistics show that all discharges and disposals of radioactive waste there during 1991 were within the authorised limits set by Government departments — as were all facilities and sites operated by the Company . |
| 28 | In addition there were 397,073 immigrants , of whom nearly 148,000 were from the Soviet Union and 111,000 from Romania . |
| 29 | Three of the Birmingham Six were in the public gallery to hear the judgement . |
| 30 | At the district scale in South Devon , 531 of the 734 completions of local authority dwellings between 1976 and 1979 were in the three main towns of Kingsbridge , Totnes and Ivybridge and only 51 completions were in parishes outside the seven main settlements ( Phillips and Williams 1982a ) . |