Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The docks of Cardiff were at the centre of the coal-based prosperity of south Wales . |
| 2 | Again , the counts of Flanders were in the vanguard , with Robert the Frisian and Robert II offering protection for merchants crossing the county and their peace for the duration of fairs . |
| 3 | For it must be admitted that the courageous citizens of Phocaea were among the most consistently self-righteous colonizers of the Greek commonwealth . |
| 4 | It is necessary to establish that the effects of TPA on the cyclic AMP content of HGT-1 cells were mediated through activation of protein kinase C. The half maximally effective concentrations of TPA were in the low nanomolar region or below , which indicates specificity , as does the lack of effect of the inactive isomer 4α-TPA . |
| 5 | Within days Tirana and the southern town of Korce were in the grip of a public transport strike , and dockers were on strike in the port of Durres . |
| 6 | Kentish archers were considered among the finest in the country and it is not unlikely that archers from Halling were present with Lord Cobham during the Hundred Years War and also at Agincourt , where the archers of Kent were in the fore front and played a major part in the defeat of the French Cavalry . |
| 7 | This may be because no one likes to admit they have been fooled or because many German records relating to their intelligence operations against Britain were amongst the captured archives not returned to Bonn in 1956 . |
| 8 | The cables and accessories that came with MainLan were of the cheap and cheerful variety . |
| 9 | If the Arab Palestinians who saw in the Nazis some hope of preventing Jewish immigration into Palestine were on the same level as the SS , were not those Palestinians who oppose Israel today equally guilty ? |
| 10 | Decidedly , Republican hopes for a successful outcome in Spain were on the wane . |
| 11 | According to the census , most women in full-time employment in Scotland were in the under-25 age-group . |
| 12 | Firemen from Richmond were at the scene for about 90 minutes . |
| 13 | The best-paid workers in Belorussia were in the bristle industry . |
| 14 | Forty-nine Britons on an excursion from Cyprus were on the bus going through an underpass when a man dropped a nail bomb from above . |
| 15 | The campaign of resistance had then succeeded , but few Unionists were celebrating ; Lord Winterton in Sussex and Willoughby de Broke in Warwickshire were among the Unionists who were preparing to spread an Irish civil war to England by setting up " commandos " of diehards among the yeomanry — but it was not clear whom they would fight if the army refused to support the government . |
| 16 | In 1984 almost 90 per cent of the 4.9 million part-time workers in Britain were in the service sector , and the overwhelming majority of those jobs were occupied by women ( Robinson , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | Cinema admissions had indeed increased as people sought escape at the movies from the horrors of war , and the flow of French and Italian imports had been disrupted , but the screen-time made available had been almost totally absorbed by American pictures : by 1918 some 80 per cent or films shown in Britain were from the US . |
| 18 | In his early years Reza Shah had reached a series of agreements with Moscow and ended the system of extraterritoriality , by which Westerners in Iran were outside the jurisdiction of the Iranian courts . |
| 19 | Government computer purchases in Europe were in the early 1980S supposedly opened up by EC rules to a free market . |
| 20 | Two of the best young swimmers in the land are from central south … that 's offical at the world cup meet in sheffield Jamie King of swindon and karen rake from Aylesbury were amongst the records |
| 21 | First appointments in India were in the gift of the directors of the East India Company . |
| 22 | There were protests from parents that reception areas were often close to prime military targets : for example , such areas in Essex were in the flight path of bombers ; Dundee , north of the Tay bridge , was an evacuation area , while Newport , south of it , was a reception area . |
| 23 | Most of Rory 's pals in London were in the International Marxist Croup , but here he was ; wandering the hills with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister and who lived for huntin' , shootin' and fishin' ( and seemed to spend the absolute minimum amount of time in his castle with his wife ) , and who had just last year rationalised half the work force in the glass factory out of a job . |
| 24 | Thus , 38% of Asahi Bank 's net new loans in the year to March were to the property sector . |
| 25 | After 1902 the duties on British manufactured imports to Germany were on the average about 25 per cent . |
| 26 | Military personnel were constitutionally debarred from voting , but members of the armed forces belonging to Golkar were among the 500 additional appointees to make up the 1,000-member Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat ( People 's Consultative Assembly ) , which would elect the President and Vice-President in March 1993 . |
| 27 | The continental commentators on Amsterdam were in the habit of minuting Ramsey 's name as that of the chief opponent of Barth . |
| 28 | The US State Department said on Tuesday it suspected Serbian arms destined for Somalia were on the ship which was apparently heading for Kenya . |
| 29 | William Temple and Fisher at Repton were among the late manifestations of this feeling . |
| 30 | The 20-year-old from St Helens scored five goals in four games to put City back on course and the two at Goodison were among the best seen anywhere this year. , both the products of nerveless execution . |