Example sentences of "[adv] were [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholson 's close friend Bruce Dern saw this as one of the developing problems with what seemed to be heading towards a husband and wife relationship ; with two people in the same business — as had been the case with Sandra and Mimi — the pressures on their life together were aggravated by the success of one member of the partnership , while the other was still struggling . |
| 2 | It was not until the following Monday that the affidavits on which Julia had worked so hard and for so long were presented to the court . |
| 3 | Many different opinions on the desirability and philosophy of Article 36 bis were expressed within the International Law Commission . |
| 4 | Many of the older generation coming from a rural background had had no opportunity for training and so were limited in the type of employment open to them . |
| 5 | Four of these were members of the networks under observation , but lived in neighbouring townships and so were excluded from the quantitative analysis which concerned itself with the known-unknown ratio in specific townships . |
| 6 | There was concern that ships from other countries , especially Spain , were registering as British ships and so were included in the UK fishing quota . |
| 7 | How long the dollar could be defended and to what extent it was actually in the interests of US capital to do so were resolved by the crisis which followed . |
| 8 | A happy , approachable Oliver Stone is a new phenomenon indeed — he is no a man known for his relaxed attitude on set , and the actors in Platoon especially were pushed to the limit . |
| 9 | The rooms inside were stuffed with the loot from Francis 's expeditions into Italy ; tapestries , more statues , gold and silver artefacts , jewelled vases , and the softest carpets of pure wool in various hues . |
| 10 | The Yasa provided for the settlement of disputes and affairs of honour only between the races of the True People , for they alone were equipped with the talons with which the kanly — formal mortal combat — was fought . |
| 11 | When Germany was defeated in 1945 , 400 tons of material from the German foreign office alone were seized by the Allied authorities . |
| 12 | Each boy had a inkwell and er a pen , blue-black ink and so on and some of the small books that we used for writing in were kept under the desk . |
| 13 | It is possible , though , that some self referrals and patients who did not consult their own doctor during the course of their attack may not have been notified to participating practitioners and thus were excluded from the study . |
| 14 | The best were made during the war , including Listen to Britain ( 1942 ) , Fires Were Started ( 1943 ) , and Diary for Timothy ( 1944/5 ) . |
| 15 | Some , mainly those of war time subjects and taken in the 30 's and 40's were given to the National Portrait Gallery , but the best were retained by the V. and A. |
| 16 | After the cells had adhered , the histamine and cimetidine concentrations described above were added to the wells giving a final well volume of 200 µl . |
| 17 | Franco 's hostility to intellectuals of any persuasion meant that intellectuals the world over were driven into the defence of the Spanish Republic . |
| 18 | I 've come from a village background actually , and homelessness was n't a major problem in our villages because a lot of these sorts of characters somehow were adopted by the community . |
| 19 | Some Nonjurors , though never implicated in Jacobite intrigue , nevertheless were committed to the principle of a Stuart restoration — for example the cleric , Jeremy Collier , or the lawyer , Roger North , who had been attorney-general to the Queen in James II 's reign . |
| 20 | When clothes were put on a kouros the forward step made for play between stuff and limb ; the forward step and skirt pulled aside were combined in the creation , in the second half of the century , of a new type almost as regular as the kouros and known to us as kore , girl . |
| 21 | The clerks handing out ballot papers at your polling station yesterday were selected by the local electoral registration officer : in most instances , they were taking the day off from their town hall desk at the rate of £61.02 each . |
| 22 | This is now a symbolic exchange , but it is a relic of the numerous treaties that once were made in the Pyrenean valleys to regulate the use of the high , communal pastures and put an end to the age-old practice of trespass or holding to ransom of intrusive livestock . |
| 23 | Any nominated initials/sex identity codes which occurred more than once were treated as the same person . |
| 24 | The most radical innovations towards integration that were to come later were initiated outside the framework of the Council and its Committee of Ministers . |
| 25 | In 1951 , for example , the Boards had been asked by the Minister to cut their spending on rural electrification , and most did so ; the South Western Board , by contrast , pressed on and a few years later were praised by the same Minister for pursuing this uneconomic development . |
| 26 | Both were still Conservatives , but both were troubled by the ethic of greed . |
| 27 | But both were kissed beside the black car then the green , and Karen felt a stirring of regret that she 'd be off to Aunt Jane 's and the lonely wind-blown beaches . |
| 28 | two changes in the swindon team to play at Portsmouth tomorrow Paul Bodin is back in the number three shirt … and Maskell returns to lead the attack both were rested for the cup game on Tuesday … |
| 29 | For some years the convict prisons , already the responsibility of central government , remained technically separate entities , but both were brought under the dominant authority of one man , Sir Edmund Du Cane . |
| 30 | Experimental observations showing this effect clearly were made in the boundary layer under the top wall of a wind-tunnel , one section of which was heated . |