Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Halsey and his associates show that while about 50 per cent of the pupils in private primary schools were from the professional class in the age cohorts 50–59 and 30–39 years , the corresponding proportion for the youngest age cohort , 20–29 years , was almost 70 per cent . |
| 2 | The platform steps were of the fixed type and roller blind destination boxes were mounted at each end above the upper deck rails . |
| 3 | The differences between Mirror and Sun/Star readers were in the expected directions but quite small . |
| 4 | Not all memorable sightings were on the seaward side of the wall . |
| 5 | Staff at other travel firms were stunned as they heard clients were among the dead . |
| 6 | He reckoned the guards were in the small building at the easterly end of the runway . |
| 7 | Another three funds were in the top quartile of their sectors . |
| 8 | And over three years 11 funds were in the top quartile . |
| 9 | I planted the polystyrene marker , scattered some flake maize , sweetcorn and broken lobs around it , then headed back to shore where my two rods were at the ready for casting out . |
| 10 | My eyes were on the far side of the valley where the track was clear and unbroken to the next turn above the main gorge . |
| 11 | While all eyes were on the majestic bird above them , Tallis had seen the fluttering movement of a more sinister flock , in the high trees around the river . |
| 12 | His eyes were on the numerous doors lining the corridor , and he could n't help wondering what went on behind those doors . |
| 13 | All eyes were on the old T'ang , noting his sudden frailty , the way his shoulders hunched forward at this latest calamity . |
| 14 | Burun 's eyes were on the nearing dust cloud . |
| 15 | Scotland coach Allan Hosie said the Pacific tour had been a great success considering eight Scots were on the British Lions tour and other players were not able to make the trip . |
| 16 | Curates in deacons ' orders did not ask evangelical Bishops how many of their clergy were of the catholic persuasion at half-past nine on August evenings , or indeed at any other time . |
| 17 | The small packets were on the bottom shelf , medium on the middle shelf and large packets on the top . |
| 18 | I was a stocky baby with good bone , but perhaps my ears were on the large side — but then so were Clark Gable 's and he did n't do so bad . |
| 19 | The biggest job losses were in the semi-skilled operator groups , while at the other end of the skill and status spectrum , jobs for technicians , managers , scientists and engineers increased markedly . |
| 20 | That at least was the rationale behind the nepotism , though in practice Nicolae Ceauşescu 's brothers were as little use to him in the final analysis as Napoleon 's brothers were to the beleaguered emperor . |
| 21 | This suggests that the main late Preclassic/early Classic occupation sites were in the northern part of the basin and that the thick deposits of colluvium that border this part of the lake have buried their remains . |
| 22 | This marker remained in the catheter until it was removed by aspiration after confirmation that the recording sites were in the distal half of the transverse colon , the splenic flexure , the descending colon , the sigmoid colon , and the rectum . |
| 23 | The European Court also decided in favour of two Spanish and British foreign language tutors at the University of Venice , who had been denied contracts of indefinite duration on the grounds that the posts were in the public service and that they were not Italians . |
| 24 | Given the certainty that freebooters were among the raiding armies , it is clearly possible that the contingents contributed by Swegen and Cnut were wholly or partly comprised of such men too , rather than exclusively of Danish levies . |
| 25 | Both countries were among the non-permanent membership of the Council , which sits for two years , the others for that particular two-year period being Canada , Colombia , the Ivory Coast , Ethiopia , Finland , Malaysia , Romania and Zaire . |
| 26 | Demands for licences grew steadily during the fourteenth century , but endowment of the religious orders never regained its earlier level , and alienations were increasingly directed to the establishment of chantries and secular institutions ; by mid-century almost as many licences were for the secular as for the religious churches , but this has more to do with declining enthusiasm for the vastly endowed monastic orders and the growing popular appeal of the mendicants who lived from alms , and not from farming extensive estates . |
| 27 | The appeal was decided on the comparatively short point that although undue influence had been exercised by the husband upon the wife , it had not been shown that the transactions were to the manifest disadvantage of the wife , in which circumstances the court held that the wife could not be relieved from the effect of the charges on her home . |
| 28 | Our isolates of E coli were from the rectal mucosa and were presumably closely associated with , if not actually attached to , the epithelium ; loosely adherent bacteria were removed from the tissue by the vigorous washing procedure . |
| 29 | Most of the bazaars were on the other side of the gate . |
| 30 | Helmets and unbelted tunics were for the despised ‘ county men ’ , ‘ those sheep-dippers up the road in the sticks ’ whom we continually used to reassert our own status by looking on them as ‘ hicksville country cousins ’ and definitely not ‘ real polises ’ . |