Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | We could be accused of listening to foreign propaganda even if we were not , and now that we were on the suspected list this could have been a good excuse for having us arrested again . |
| 32 | On one occasion , he told the guests , ‘ you might have believed that we were on the verge of adding 3,500 redundancies to the total of Scottish unemployed . |
| 33 | It is usually held in October or November and I thought that holding it today perhaps heralded better news or that we were on the brink of a breakthrough or a decision . |
| 34 | The Secretary of State for Employment sought to protest when my hon. Friend the Member for Sedgefield suggested to him that we were near the bottom of the league tables , saying that we should not take too much account of them . |
| 35 | He went on : ‘ Looking back , the fact that we were the first to say Thatcher should go over the Lawson affair meant that we were in the game . |
| 36 | ‘ I was n't aware that we were in the business of getting rid of inconvenient critics . |
| 37 | The consequence , for me at least , was that I reckoned that the earthquake account for 1992 had , so to speak , been settled , and that we were in the clear for a year or so . |
| 38 | He knew we were a naval vessel and he also knew that we were in the vicinity . ’ |
| 39 | Tom confirmed our assumption that we were in the Beka'a Valley saying that Carton , an Arabic speaker , told him that some of the food wrappers had Baalbek addresses on them . |
| 40 | By this time the " All Clear " sounded and there was a certain amount of light by which I could plainly see I was in what appeared to be an MT parking lot , When the rear gunner returned he reported that we were in the Manston MT yard . |
| 41 | Well I seem to recall that we were in the place |
| 42 | So we swapped addresses with er , ca n't remember , it was a man middle-aged sort of man and er he then said ooh , well he said I still think that we were in the right in as much as if that policeman was supposed to have been directing traffic blah blah blah blah blah ! |
| 43 | All spring records except one were for the Downs , but all autumn records for the coast . |
| 44 | But we also need the broad generalizations that help show whether we are closer to meeting the basic needs of all the world 's people than we were at the start of the 1970s . |
| 45 | ‘ It is all a bit overwhelming and we are more frightened now than we were at the start because we know so much more about her condition . |
| 46 | ‘ We consider training to be crucial and we are spending more on it now than we were during the last recession , ’ he said . |
| 47 | At least we are much nearer than we were in the era your rose-coloured glasses have alighted upon . |
| 48 | Certainly , one theory as to why crime appears to be going up is that as a society we are more intolerant of certain types of violence than we were in the past . |
| 49 | In consequence we must grow harder , more ruthless than we were in the days of ease . |
| 50 | Once we were on the fairly flat back of the hill , I clambered back into the cart and we were away past the farms , Y Llechwen , Y Garth Fawr , Y Garth Fach through winding lanes bordered by low stone walls . |
| 51 | Once we were past the village on the road up to the major , Sir Edmund , recalling my story about the ambush , ordered the soldiers to fan out before us . |
| 52 | Once we were inside the car , Quiggers allowed himself a full-blooded sneer . |
| 53 | Once we were in the main concourse , I put down my suitcase and turned to say goodbye . |
| 54 | ‘ Butler , ’ he said , once we were in the hall , ‘ I wonder if I could have my feet changed . |
| 55 | Once we were in the raft with all our life jackets and equipment we had to learn to control the raft and respond to commands , then we were ready to hit the rapids . |
| 56 | I think it would be a crying shame if the country pub disappeared but they need customers and there are n't the customers around that there were in the past . ’ |
| 57 | And erm I think we 'll be going back to the kind of erm conditions that there were in the Victorian age and in Dickens ' age . |
| 58 | There are now approximately 2 million more weavers operating in Persia than there were during the time of the late Shah , and , even if this trend is reversed , existing stocks are large enough to keep the Western markets more than adequately supplied for a decade or so . |
| 59 | There are 100 million more free prescriptions this year than there were at the time of the last Labour Government . |
| 60 | This shows that in well over eighty percent there were fewer tumours at the three month cystoscopy than there were before the B G C was instilled . |