Example sentences of "[det] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A few were in the hands of private companies , but the majority were owned either by the Federal or state governments . |
| 7 | Quite a few were in the printing and paper trades as folders , envelope makers , envelope stampers etc . |
| 8 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Surgical causes were mostly postoperative but some were in the category of acute surgical admissions . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Of 24,200 workers thrown on the dole last month , more than half were from the once prosperous region . |
| 13 | The second general point is that the discussion on Greece and Rome shows that Engels thought that the general scheme of social causation developed by Marx for capitalism applied to pre-capitalist formations , so long as these were past the gens stages . |
| 14 | This exercise revealed that , although there were problems with the availability of information to support the finance function , generally these were outside the control of the OIC . |
| 15 | Most of these were between the age of 15 and 30 , and the majority who died were unidentified . |
| 16 | In the box Boy kept a few books and a lot of letters ; apart from his clothes these were about the only things he had in the flat that were his own . |
| 17 | On either side of the gangway doors were small doors on the floor level ; these were for the double purpose of allowing a hosepipe to be brought through from the line for washing out purposes , and also to allow free escape of water . |
| 18 | Although he extols the yellow of spring , the green of summer , and ‘ the changling dresses of autumnal tints ’ ; these were for the sightseers not the painter . |
| 19 | It later transpired that all but one of these were for the Bulgarian A team . |
| 20 | First , legislation allowed paid release only for certain stipulated categories ; these were for the most part workplace stewards and health and safety representatives . |
| 21 | These were for the demobilization of all irregular " armed formations " throughout Yugoslav territory ( by midnight on July 18 ) , for the return of Slovenia 's borders to the situation prior to June 25 ( by midnight on July 16 ) , the release of all troops and the return to the JNA and the police of goods and equipment seized in Slovenia ( by midnight on July 15 ) and the lifting of blockades ( by midnight on July 13 ) . |
| 22 | Mostly these were on the west coast where glaciers moved faster since the snowfall was heavier near the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 23 | A quarter of these were on the streets the day they were delivered from the printers . |
| 24 | Some of the finest of these were on the walls of Puang Sangalla 's house , where Ranteallo took us the following morning to meet his dead father , and barely alive eighty-seven-year-old mother . |
| 25 | Seven of these were on the British side , where the contractors were fined 50,000 in March 1990 after the fifth death . |
| 26 | Most docks were around the Midlands ; over a hundred of these were on the Birmingham Canals . |
| 27 | These were on the shelf and the bottom of the safe was stacked with pocket files . |
| 28 | To achieve it he had to work on individuals , exploiting relationships which were not open , public ones : he could not have called a meeting to appeal to everyone 's obligations as a relative by descent and by marriage , as if these were of the same kind as those of a citizen , an Arab or a Muslim . |
| 29 | Three of these were of the same size as those in the front compartment : the other three were no more than five feet in length . |
| 30 | Colonies have always given scope to adventurers from the metropolis who have enjoyed irresponsible power over the natives , whether as administrators , police officials , soldiers , traders , or settlers ( even if these were of the peasant class ) . |