Example sentences of "[adj] were [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 2 | Again , those two that were wrong were all over the place and not an effective sequence . |
| 3 | All were still fastened into their safety belts and some were still in the position that the pilot had obviously instructed them to adopt , leaning forward with their arms over their heads . |
| 4 | Weeks later , half were downstairs for the more tuneful brew mixed up by various members of the Flying DJ family . |
| 5 | The interviews were carried out some time after the abuse had been established , so that while all had been on the child abuse register only half were still on the register when interviewed . |
| 6 | It was time to return home so I jerked the machine into a spiral dive , just in case the remaining CR 42s or the two 109s were still in the vicinity , flattened out at about 800 feet and jinked my way back to Takali . |
| 7 | The other powers did n't like it — they wanted Britain to get out of Egypt — but so long as the fiction could be maintained that the British were there at the express request of the Egyptian sovereign , there was not much they could do about it . |
| 8 | Two schools for the deaf which were opened in the 1900s were both from the start to establish a pure oralist tradition . |
| 9 | Abuse , suggestions of courses of action for me to follow that are physically and technologically impossible were much to the fore . |
| 10 | These were not of the best quality ; lighting in the first instance was oil , then gas , but on the introduction of electrically lit stock , the batteries were always run down or low in the winter , and described by one wag , a regular user of the service , as reminiscent of ‘ a red hot hairpit ’ . |
| 11 | These were still within the larger Yanomami Park as defined by a 1985 decree , but outside the minimal 19 separate pockets ruled as Indian land in February 1989 . |
| 12 | Dreams was doing well but luxuries like these were still in the distant future . |
| 13 | Many believed these were almost on the point of starting again following secret talks between the two leaders in recent weeks . |
| 14 | These were mainly through the work of one man , Edgar Chance . |
| 15 | These were mainly for the purpose of reinforcement or ‘ aides-memoires ’ , but they sometimes represent an effort to extend the orientation into some more substantial instruction . |
| 16 | These were mainly near the rivers , which were used to transport the coal easily and cheaply . |
| 17 | These were mainly after the move from Brighton to London . |
| 18 | And these were usually on the training grounds |
| 19 | Because of the uncertainties , and to forestall the predicted developments , it was decided at the Committee stage of the Bill to redraft it to ensure that these were explicitly within the new law . |
| 20 | The three were still in the ditch when Hazel heard a movement above . |
| 21 | Lands disafforested during the reign of the usurper Stephen and subsequently reclaimed by Henry II were not within the terms of the Charter of the Forest . |
| 22 | If tile 4 were out of the way , as in c , the position b could be obtained from a by sliding the tiles 7 , 8 , 3 , 5 , and 1 in a loop . |
| 23 | Not all were up to the standard of Miss Clarke , most were a lot older . |
| 24 | Throughout 1990 research institutes and drugs companies reported advances in finding treatments for AIDS , but all were still in the research and testing phase . |
| 25 | A good many were there for the fun , rather than any dedication to the anti-Fascist cause . |
| 26 | How how many were there in the family at the time ? |
| 27 | All the clan from six to sixty were up on the hill before dawn , ready to drive the deer that would help feast them . |
| 28 | The constituency parties formed in 1918 were directly under the control of the Party 's National Executive and professional organizers . |
| 29 | ‘ In the whole of Jakarta , I could find only 62 outlets selling Guinness — and those were mainly in the port area and in Chinatown , ’ he remembers . |
| 30 | Er they get rather sulky and offended to say the least , they get er , often they recruit academics and lawyers to say that the memories of abuse are fabricated , the memories of abuse they could n't really have happened because the people concerned were out of the country at the time and were on holiday anyway and er did n't even meet the family until the kid was eleven years old after it was sup and so on and so forth . |