Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith . |
| 2 | Statistics show that all discharges and disposals of radioactive waste there during 1991 were within the authorised limits set by Government departments — as were all facilities and sites operated by the Company . |
| 3 | Plasma CCK concentrations reached during infusion of CCK-33 were in the same range in the three experiments , thus excluding the possibility that differences in gall bladder contraction between the hyperglycaemic and normoglycaemic experiments are related to differences in plasma CCK concentrations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Gorbachev on Dec. 4 had announced to the USSR Supreme Soviet emergency plans to import basic foodstuffs to the value of 2,100 million roubles ( US$1,050 million at the new commercial exchange rate ) to ensure that supplies in the first quarter of 1991 were at the levels of the same period in 1990 . |
| 6 | It later transpired that all but one of these were for the Bulgarian A team . |
| 7 | Three of these were of the same size as those in the front compartment : the other three were no more than five feet in length . |
| 8 | A quarter of these were on the streets the day they were delivered from the printers . |
| 9 | Some of the finest of these were on the walls of Puang Sangalla 's house , where Ranteallo took us the following morning to meet his dead father , and barely alive eighty-seven-year-old mother . |
| 10 | Seven of these were on the British side , where the contractors were fined 50,000 in March 1990 after the fifth death . |
| 11 | Most docks were around the Midlands ; over a hundred of these were on the Birmingham Canals . |
| 12 | We have created a considerable number of new jobs in south Norfolk ; regrettably , some of these were at the expense of people affected by the closure of the Ipswich site , but nevertheless , such opportunities in a rural environment have been viewed very positively by the local community . |
| 13 | Most of these were between the age of 15 and 30 , and the majority who died were unidentified . |
| 14 | Far too many of these were in the motor industry . |
| 15 | Thus only about 70 or 80 of the brides were marrying skilled manual workers ; and 42 of these were in the printing trade , massively skewing the figures . |
| 16 | Only nine oesophageal perforations occurred during a total of 1373 dilatation treatments ( procedure related incidence 0.58% ) , and eight of these were in the corrosive stricture group . |
| 17 | Only nine perforations occurred during a total of 1373 dilatation sessions ( procedure related incidence of perforation 0.58% ) in the whole group ; eight of these were in the corrosive group ( total number of dilatation sessions 990 , procedure related incidence of perforation 0.8% ) . |
| 18 | In one respect , however , the government 's stated intention was noticeably frustrated ; only 38 appointments to District General Manager ( DGM ) posts were made from outside the NHS , and many of these were from the armed forces rather than the private businesses the government wished to tap . |
| 19 | For their second book , they interviewed 700 mothers of four-year-old children , but only 275 of these were from the original sample ( Newson and Newson 1968 ) . |
| 20 | A total of 75% of the households moving into new owner-occupied dwellings were from the County of Tyne and Wear and the greater part of these were from the Newcastle and North Tyneside MDC areas . |
| 21 | Two of these were near the existing Winfrith experimental plant , run by the UKAEA . |
| 22 | He and some other survivors of the hospital staff got straw mats and went outdoors — thousands of patients and hundreds of dead were on the driveway and in the yard — and hurried around behind the hospital and lay down in hiding to snatch some sleep . |
| 23 | Many of the sites they inherited in 1948 were near the towns and cities which were the main load centres , but such sites seemed less likely to gain planning permission in the 1950s . |
| 24 | On May 23 the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs , Dhari Abdullah al Othman said that the trails " currently taking place in public were within the framework of the law " and described as " tendentious " reports which suggested otherwise . |
| 25 | In fact , when the bonds were redeemed in 1983 the 280 bonds issued in 1907 were in the hands of only 47 people who had the power to elect two-thirds of the committee to run a club with over 600 members ! |
| 26 | The extent of the hidden need met by the Act was demonstrated by the fact that 93.6 per cent of pensions granted in 1912–13 were for the full amount of 5s 0d . |
| 27 | More particularly , Galileo used standard perspective procedures in accounting for the foreshortening of the spots which he claimed in 1613 were on the surface of the sun . |
| 28 | The activities of the chains , however , meant that only a third of the mornings still published in 1988 were in the same ownership as in 1945 . |
| 29 | An age bias of this order was expected — only one in seven were under the age of 30 — because of the relatively high median age of the work-force in the steel industry ( Jolly et al. |
| 30 | The highest rates of increase during 1987 were in the USA , the Soviet Union and China , with the last-named recording a 4.8 per cent rise . |