Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then he claims that the list of circumstances above were among the factors needed to produce the revolution in Russia . |
| 2 | Knights is opposed to specialist training to a greater extent than the Review writers ever were before the war . |
| 3 | God only knows how many lira there were to the deutschmark these days . |
| 4 | Some ten years earlier , Arthur Young had already noted the discord between the natural beauty of the landscape and what man had done to it , but he saw , too — and painters also were on the verge of seeing it — that an unrestrained industrial landscape has a considerable element of sublimity about it . |
| 5 | Rangers initially were of the opinion that their share of the tickets for the Velodrome in Marseille was so unsatisfactory as to be more trouble than it was worth . |
| 6 | The houses here were of the same structure as the mean buildings where Hari lived but the properties were well maintained , the outsides freshly painted , the windows gleaming with cleanliness and hung with rich drapes . |
| 7 | ‘ use towards another person ’ This can be proved by a civilian witness or a police officer witnessing the incident and describing in his evidence that the threats etc. were towards the other person . |
| 8 | The vast majority of people entered the competition also were at the er home office meeting favoured the second option , existing special or recruiting a special to work in the area . |
| 9 | In the small grease-laden kitchen the dishes they 'd eaten a meal off were in the sink . |
| 10 | Others still were from the very lowest ranks of the Church who preferred the more exciting life of the camp . |
| 11 | Many physicians from that time forward were of the opinion that nearly all the late complications of syphilis were , in fact , the result of mercury poisoning . |