Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We consider training to be crucial and we are spending more on it now than we were during the last recession , ’ he said . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All this depended on the fact that the Romans were for the first time in the law of succession experiencing an ‘ open ’ system . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As the Vice-chairman , who was re-elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf . |
| 8 | Women were for the first time identified in their own right as potential land reform beneficiaries . |
| 9 | of the records were for the last week of April and the first two of May . |
| 10 | Now the depot office the they in those days controlled what a man 's duties were for the next day and a man did n't know what he was on until about twelve o'clock one day what he was on the next day . |
| 11 | of the records were for the third week of September . |
| 12 | And that was Stronsay there were about the first to have a diamond jubilee . |
| 13 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 14 | But then it was a creature of its time , and its time and the work it did were about the last election , not the next one . |
| 15 | The hours worked in the late 1970s were between a third and a quarter longer than those in all the other railways studied by the BR/Leeds team ( 1980 : 15 ) . |
| 16 | But when my father took over , when he came back to Galashiels , he started in bicycles and there was quite probably ten bicycle shops in Galashiels at that time and er he gave , well he , he attracted business with his efficient way of repairing bicycles and er it 's funny that after about a number of years , we were between the last , after the last war I should say , the Second World War , er we were about the only people for , for a period the only bicycle shop in Galashiels . |
| 17 | Weight was documented in 82/90 and 19 ( 23% ) were below the third percentile . |
| 18 | Around one quartr of the children in this study were below the third percentile for weight suggesting an association between cryptosporidiosis and failure to thrive , as described in other centres . |
| 19 | Twenty one children were below the third centile for height . |
| 20 | Six of 10 with only such small bowel involvement were below the third centile for height when their disease was recognised . |
| 21 | Of all patients followed up to maturity 17 were below the third centile for height at diagnosis ( SDS for height -2.81 ( 0.57 ) ) . |
| 22 | The children who were below the third centile for height at diagnosis ( SDS for height <-1.8 ) are of particular concern . |
| 23 | As in the case of the early home-grown British firms , many of the Big Four's consultants were of the first two types of headhunter we have identified : either the aristocrat with the old-boy network contacts or the practical selection and management consultant type whose experience was more in personnel than commerce and industry . |
| 24 | I spoke to many of the soldiers , they were of the 72nd Highland , and they answered to a man that they detested the business . |
| 25 | Eva and her emergency team were amongst the first on the scene taking in food and clothing , and assessing the need for financial aid to help rebuild the shattered homes and schools . |
| 26 | WWF members and supporters were amongst the first to receive full details of the new card . |
| 27 | All but one ( regulated group ) were above the 10th centile for weight . |
| 28 | Seven children who were above the third percentile had recently lost weight or were failing to thrive . |
| 29 | By the time they started ‘ I Guess it Does n't Matter Anymore ’ they were onto the last saucepan and the table was covered with clean , dry things . |
| 30 | Bright Yorkshire prospect Adil Ditta scored 58 for Middlesbrough but they too had to fight hard for runs and were into the last over before they achieved their win by a four wicket margin . |