Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 , the number of new houses added to the total stock was only 212,000 , and of this number only 34,000 were in the public sector . |
| 2 | Forms are stored in separate boxes according to their accession ( ’ D ’ ) numbers ; thus all of the D 21,000 series were in one box , and the D ‘ , 000s were in the next one , and so on . |
| 3 | Of full-time professionals playing for a major club like Sheffield United in 1934–5 only four out of twenty-one were on the maximum wage . |
| 4 | Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval . |
| 5 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 6 | The , admittedly the French and the British were on the right side , they won the war , but France er was er battered in the war , lost an awful lot of people , it 's a common and although this country , although , you know , fighting in Britain , the er , British economy was also badly damaged . |
| 7 | This was about the only use for insect repellent , as the mosquitoes seemed to have become hardened to the hundreds of tourists who had trekked through before us . |
| 8 | This was about the only thing that ‘ Damnation Derek ’ got right ! |
| 9 | The United goal never really looked in any great danger … this was about the only lapse … |
| 10 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 11 | It won , it won the best kit car and this was at the national show so you imagine how good this thing was . |
| 12 | This was during the mid 1980 's and the group was of moderate size and the productions were of a moderate standard also . |
| 13 | This was during the mid thirties ? |
| 14 | Dad did n't speak to Mum on the phone , and he did n't see her , knowing that this was for the best in the long run . |
| 15 | Glass accepts this was for the best . |
| 16 | No doubt this was for the good practical reason that as royal taxation became more frequent separate and additional councils for the church 's own business became more inconvenient : there was a limit to the number of times the clergy could be summoned from their parishes and livings to provincial assemblies in London or elsewhere . |
| 17 | This was for the specialised early potato market . |
| 18 | This was to the fundamental and long-term detriment of the financial base of the College . |
| 19 | This was of the first importance to him . |
| 20 | Page references have been included in this file as , a/though pub have covered indexes in their information skills course , this was of the first occasions when they were asked to take much of responsibility for their own project . |
| 21 | This was on the last day of an exhausting eleven-month shoot tracking down the healers , mystics and wise men of the islands . |
| 22 | This was after the 4472 hauled special , and may have been the final working into Hyde 's . |
| 23 | This was before the actual move . |
| 24 | This was before the 1988 Licensing Act which brought all-day opening . |
| 25 | This was before the Batty sale … but Im not sure if it was before all the other sales this season . |
| 26 | This was in The New English Weekly , a London journal of very limited circulation ; there appears to have been no comparable acknowledgement in the poet 's native land . |
| 27 | ‘ This was in the late 1970s when community programmes were developing rapidly ’ , Worswick recalled . |
| 28 | This was in the late sixties . |
| 29 | He was able to come back , and this was in the late nineteen fifties , half a century later , and tell us all about it . |
| 30 | Oh very much so , yes , this was in the sixties , sixties , seventies |