Example sentences of "[verb] were [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The equipment which saved Ray was bought by the Thame business United Biscuits , and some of the staff who contributed were also at the pub today to meet the man who owes his life to their generosity . |
| 2 | The Defence Minister , Mr Ferenc Karpati , told the Hungarian parliament that the troops used were not from the regular army but from the Securitate secret police , whose uniforms are similar and who are equipped with tanks and sophisticated weapons . |
| 3 | There was no apparent reason to administer the drug , although the quantities involved were not above the legal limits . |
| 4 | But then terrific top-end power and tarmac-scorching standing starts were not on the design team 's agenda . |
| 5 | The self-supporting peasant was transformed into a spender of money , for all the things he needed were now in the shops . |
| 6 | Quite suddenly whether Anne worried or what she thought were not of the least importance . |
| 7 | The chapter on Annapurna contains several images which I felt were well below the overall standard . |
| 8 | The 1334 tax assessments and the 1377 poll-tax returns show which communities existed at those dates ( the latter also showing how few had disappeared between them ) , and make it clear that a high proportion of those which eventually disappeared were markedly below the average size ( 58 , pp.162–3 , 207 ) . |
| 9 | Moreover , the unemployment rates with which post-war creeping inflations were associated were well below the rates which even the most sanguine of Keynesians would have regarded as feasible minima . |
| 10 | All the ones you 've mentioned were there except the one of Delia Forbes . ’ |