Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 There was no fee involved for either of these speakers as they were each on the Establishment of the host Borough .
2 However , in 1988 those three boroughs were each among the top five increases in Labour share of the vote .
3 Roeder tentatively puts it at 1000 finished pictures and complains that there were few at the British Museum , still fewer in provincial libraries .
4 While a good case can , in retrospect , he made for the national interest being served by higher prices , there were few at the time who argued against the interpretation of Citrine and Self that there was a long-run obligation to sell as much electricity as possible at as low a price as possible .
5 Peter had taken the flute from Tom , Tom was dancing with Alice and Jarvis capering with Jay , while Tina and Billy were half under the table in a clinch so tightly intertwined as to seem to make one person of them .
6 His three years at Cambridge were some of the happiest of his life and also the most normal .
7 The city banks ( Japan 's version of commercial banks ) were some of the worst culprits .
8 These , then , were some of the issues that took my time .
9 Inevitably this meant that the tax-credit system proposed by the Heath Government was not on the agenda and nor were some of the more ambitious income-guarantee schemes which inevitably required reform of taxation and social security being taken together .
10 In Kufra , the barber , the hotel cooks , some shop managers , tailors and garage mechanics were non-Libyan , as were some of the workers in those larger gardens which produced for the market .
11 Fishing ( for lobsters ) in the summer , coastguard duty , drivers , mechanics and power station workers were some of the occupations off the farm .
12 What were some of the pressures ?
13 The mass disfranchisement of thousands of citizens in local government , the disgraceful manipulation of constituency boundaries , the enforced political tests for government jobs and legislation , such as the Flags and Emblems Act , were some of the shackles on individual freedom which would never be tolerated in England .
14 These were some of the theories produced to argue that the rod was quite wrong .
15 They were some of the best he 'd ever taken , he said , but it was difficult to tell since he 'd dropped them in the water when he was changing film .
16 They were some of the first cars to be withdrawn when the fleet was modernised , and they were scrapped in 1934 .
17 Denis rallied the defeatists with a robust speech : what everyone had said showed how pretentious were some of the demands made by the party for us to interfere here , there and everywhere .
18 Housing conditions in Greenock in JTR 's day were some of the worst in Britain .
19 Near to the landing-pier were some of the older houses of the town , and by climbing a steep street , the old castle may be leisurely inspected , and it quite merits a visit .
20 To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars .
21 Generators out of action , ’ incomplete fire-fighting pumps , inflammable plastic in the ships and in the sailors ' clothing were some of the reasons , given .
22 André Previn 's 1970s recordings of the complete Tchaikovsky ballets were some of the happiest collaborations with the LSO , and ‘ Rouge et Noir ’ puts together nearly 150 minutes of well-chosen extracts from Swan Lake , Sleeping Beauty and Nutcracker .
23 ‘ Frenzied and totally ineffective bumbling ’ , ‘ drunken hysteria ’ and blind panic' were some of the less offensive phrases mentioned in the coroner 's court .
24 These were some of the instructions being given by the polemaster to the men on the ropes as the two ton pole began to shift .
25 These were some of the nine old age pensioners , dressed in building-site hard hats , who roam the Old Course .
26 Nor were some of the earlier beach reconnaissances the most encouraging of precedents , although Clogstoun-Willmott did not know this at the time .
27 Taxing work , determination , application , steadfastness , resilience : these were some of the qualities needed to make the grade as a sportsmen even at the more modest levels .
28 ‘ A long thin shank , a long heel , a peculiar patella , a stronger tendon of Achilles or larger adrenalin glands ’ were some of the attributes thought to enable blacks to dominate certain disciplines ( Henderson , 1949 , p.362 ) .
29 By turning a blind eye to the activities of moderate Puritan laymen and clergy while at the same time dealing harshly with Presbyterian extremists , king and archbishop ensured that the first fifteen years of Abbot 's primacy were some of the most tranquil in the religious sphere during the entire century following the break with Rome ( see Chapter 7 ) .
30 Here were some of the most renowned chevaliers in all Bretonnia .
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