Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean the Welsh population in percentage terms is now rising more rapidly than that of England and therefore by the year two thousand and one when the next review would take place er we er will certainly fully occupy if you like , that fifth seat in terms of the average size because Welsh Euro constituencies were during the past ten years , very slightly larger on average than those in England and so er we are moving from under representation to slight over representation for a temporary period er simply because er you know Wales is regarded as indivisible for this purpose and that 's why we welcomed this debate . |
| 2 | Complaints are likely to rise , even though the sound levels may be lower than they were during the relative ‘ boom ’ days before the recession . |
| 3 | ‘ We consider training to be crucial and we are spending more on it now than we were during the last recession , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Fraser 's party arrived back on 23 December , but there was only time for a brief celebration , as Stirling , Mayne and Lewes were off the following morning for another series of raids . |
| 5 | ROUND the world yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnson and his crew were off the southern coast of Brazil yesterday as they maintained their challenge for the Jules Verne Trophy . |
| 6 | ‘ = and they were going to stay there for a few weeks until their faces were off the front pages and they could tiptoe away . |
| 7 | Goram , exceptional throughout his reintroduction to the side , was forced to muddy his tracksuit bottoms in response to the first of Amokachi 's many attacks on the break and the more Rangers pressed forward , the more gaps there were for the Belgian side to exploit from a midfield they dominated . |
| 8 | While everyone agreed the changes in living standards since the film was made were for the better , there was some nostalgia for farming as it was when they were young . |
| 9 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 10 | The first lots to come into the ring were for the annual lease of ewes . |
| 11 | Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff . |
| 12 | The local transmissions of the External Service were for the many expatriates working in the country who understood little or no Swahili . |
| 13 | There were some comparatively small reductions to the Housing Benefit budget but the major savings — which ran into billions of pounds — were for the 1990s and the next century . |
| 14 | So far as the privately rented sector was concerned , the government 's proposals were for the automatic decontrol of all dwellings with a rateable value over £40 in London and over £30 in the rest of England and Wales . |
| 15 | And the new tears were for the absolute tenderness she had seen in his eyes . |
| 16 | They were for the gentle grey shirehorse , whose death he blamed on himself . |
| 17 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 18 | All this depended on the fact that the Romans were for the first time in the law of succession experiencing an ‘ open ’ system . |
| 19 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 20 | This demand was indeed radical since women were for the first time trying to achieve some independence as persons and to exercise some power as individuals in their own right . |
| 21 | Indeed , restaurants , cafes and licensed premises which sell liquor for consumption on the premises ( e.g. pubs and wine bars ) were for the first time was the 1987 Use Classes Order brought within a stated class . |
| 22 | As the Vice-chairman , who was re-elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf . |
| 23 | Women were for the first time identified in their own right as potential land reform beneficiaries . |
| 24 | These ‘ composite ’ boats were for the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company . |
| 25 | The turnout was reported to be 99.78 per cent of the electorate ; 100 per cent of total votes cast were for the successful candidates . |
| 26 | That particular luxury did not appear until M. Georges Nagelmackers had copied Mr Pullman and introduced them in 1883 , and even then they were for the rich who could afford to travel on the ‘ Orient Express ’ . |
| 27 | Sommerfrische and Kurort were for the normal bourgeois ; traditionalist France and Italy still confirm today that annual liverishness was a bourgeois institution . |
| 28 | Secretly , under layers and wads of protest , was her admission that he was right , that these things were for the best . |
| 29 | His particular predilections when he started were for the young artists of his won age who were beginning to reject the immediate traditions of their predecessors and experiment with new formulas of expression and technique in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 30 | ( One story , which entered his official state Department biography , has it that he told several students that his own rise to the position of ambassador showed what great opportunities there were for the young in Iran . |