Example sentences of "[adv] were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was equally , and perhaps more , marked in local politics in the cities , dominated as these naturally were by the bourgeois ( i.e. normally Liberal ) notables of the place . |
| 2 | Were , we 're not attached to any sort of department , like housing or leisure , were actually in the organisation , were in the general management department and were not alone erm , the planning er originally the general manager 's department and the winners and equality unit are in that department as well and the general manager has his own erm policy , officer and secretarian , so were in the general manager 's department and in other Council 's that would be known as the Chief Executive Department . |
| 3 | The best were in the city of Budapest which is divided by the river Danube into the hilly right bank where Buda is situated and the flatter lands opposite of Pest . |
| 4 | And then he claims that the list of circumstances above were among the factors needed to produce the revolution in Russia . |
| 5 | Others still were from the very lowest ranks of the Church who preferred the more exciting life of the camp . |
| 6 | So do you feel that , I mean in the , in the years you 've worked here is the women as important as they always were in the factory ? |
| 7 | But while you can be just as sure as you ever were about the quality of what you choose , the kind of toys on offer from Matchbox now are very different from the huge fleet of little cars most of us associate with this particular name . |
| 8 | If the reasons given by the chief officer of police are such that a court concludes that no reasonable officer could form the judgment that serious disruption would ensue , it is possible that the courts will prove readier to intervene than they ever were under the previous legislation , which referred to ‘ serious public disorder ’ only . |
| 9 | ‘ This technology means that community groups and local people are able to find out much more about an issue and how it has been tackled elsewhere much more than they ever were in the past . |
| 10 | Knights is opposed to specialist training to a greater extent than the Review writers ever were before the war . |
| 11 | In the small grease-laden kitchen the dishes they 'd eaten a meal off were in the sink . |
| 12 | Its restaurant and coffee bar are now on the first floor but once were on the ground floor where the bank is now . |
| 13 | The central functions required to service the large mainframes are no longer perceived to be necessary on the scale they once were with the development of distributed end-user computing and communications , and a generation of users who are not only ‘ literate ’ but competent technically . |
| 14 | State legislatures and Congress are no longer gripped as they once were by the dead hand of privilege . |
| 15 | Council housing rents were subsidized , as were most house prices for owner-occupiers until 1931 , but both were beyond the reach of the unskilled . |
| 16 | But they both were in the services . |
| 17 | The vast majority of people entered the competition also were at the er home office meeting favoured the second option , existing special or recruiting a special to work in the area . |
| 18 | Some ten years earlier , Arthur Young had already noted the discord between the natural beauty of the landscape and what man had done to it , but he saw , too — and painters also were on the verge of seeing it — that an unrestrained industrial landscape has a considerable element of sublimity about it . |
| 19 | While FLOWERED UP were in the process of getting kicked out of their hotel for spraying the porters with fire extinguishers , Bez was safe in his room making a four-hour phone call to his missus and the very adorable new addition to his family , baby son ARLO . |
| 20 | On April 5th the Treasury team started its final burst of work — the last details to be sorted out were on the exemptions from the tax , and the scrapping of the hated poll-tax register . |
| 21 | To this end , he assessed whether the modifications carried out were in the spirit of the DCs , that the modifications were adequate to cope with the SPRs submitted by clients , and that the quality of the total package satisfied the quoted project standards . |
| 22 | It was too early for me to be a Yuckie — the tabloid newspapers ' shorthand for the young city slickers who celebrated the end of a day 's trading with too much lager and then reverted to type as the football hooligans they really were under the skin . |
| 23 | We really were in the front line . |
| 24 | You should have found in question 14 that the answer is which means that the same number of sweets are Present now were at the start . |
| 25 | Charles had forgotten how important these now were to the survival of a West End show . |
| 26 | The houses here were of the same structure as the mean buildings where Hari lived but the properties were well maintained , the outsides freshly painted , the windows gleaming with cleanliness and hung with rich drapes . |
| 27 | ‘ use towards another person ’ This can be proved by a civilian witness or a police officer witnessing the incident and describing in his evidence that the threats etc. were towards the other person . |
| 28 | But Toby wondered whether the old-fashioned theories it conducted itself by were of the best , or consistently applied . |
| 29 | Some of them indeed were under the impression that Sir Thomas 's disappearance from the scene was some kind of re-enactment of The Mystery of Edwin Drood . |
| 30 | At its very inception , the world was hot , but within a billion years of its origin , parts of it at least were at the kinds of temperatures in which complex organic chemistry could take place . |