Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half of the sentences were of the form B because A ( as in the above example ) , and half were of the form Because A , B ( e.g. , Because the sun started to shine , the snowman started to melt ) . |
| 2 | At the district scale in South Devon , 531 of the 734 completions of local authority dwellings between 1976 and 1979 were in the three main towns of Kingsbridge , Totnes and Ivybridge and only 51 completions were in parishes outside the seven main settlements ( Phillips and Williams 1982a ) . |
| 3 | The rose which mantled the house must have put out a thousand flowers and these were at the peak of their blooming , not a petal yet shed , each blossom the pink of a shell within and the pink of coral on its outer side . |
| 4 | His wife , Gabrielle , and their four children including girls aged seven , ten and 11 were in the living room at the time . |
| 5 | Nineteen of the patients had been treated with zidovudine , and 17 were on the drug at the time of diagnosis ; two patients were taking dideoxyinosine . |
| 6 | Twenty infants aged between three and five were at the playgroud and the police have confirmed they will all be interviewed , along with four staff members and several other mothers . |
| 7 | In a few seconds , two fell dead , one was running back into the trees , and four were inside the stockade . |
| 8 | By this time , Celia had the same throat and both were in the same bed for company . |
| 9 | They were never entirely secure : Crowe nearly chopped DeFreitas on , and both were among the big majority of those who stayed any length of time in being beaten repeatedly just outside off stump . |
| 10 | Few were in the market for the Kuwaiti shares , but few were in the market at all with such an overhang : only 2.9m shares changed hands compared with Tuesday 's 30m . |
| 11 | Surgical causes were mostly postoperative but some were in the category of acute surgical admissions . |
| 12 | I had the odd George II and George III copper , but these were in the minority and it was the 17th century coinage that was popping up with some regularity . |