Example sentences of "[subord] they were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agitation by Serbs in Croatia came to a head with the unilateral proclamation on Oct. 1 by the so-called Serbian National Council of an " autonomous region " comprising those districts where they were in the majority . |
| 2 | Although they were at the agricultural policies undoubtedly continue to be relevant , still have a significant part to play in many current situations . |
| 3 | Although they were in the same show and of the same age , they were a world apart as women and performers . |
| 4 | Indeed , Kinnock and Thatcher were more visible in our pre-campaign week , when both were on highly publicized foreign tours , than they were during the campaign itself . |
| 5 | Complaints are likely to rise , even though the sound levels may be lower than they were during the relative ‘ boom ’ days before the recession . |
| 6 | With the yield on 30-year Treasury bonds at 8.25% and that on three-month bills at 6.6% , long- and short-term interest rates are now lower than they were at the end of the two previous deep recessions , in 1981 and 1973 . |
| 7 | As the campaign enters the final furlong the Tories in the campaign team know they are no closer to finding a magic formula than they were at the outset . |
| 8 | Although incomes in the 1980s were substantially higher in real terms than they were at the end of the 1950s , there has been no sustained decrease in inequality ; in fact , as we saw in chapter 5 ( figure 5.5 ) , income inequality in Britain increased sharply after 1976 . |
| 9 | The shorter estimate comes from one or two ‘ optimists ’ within the electricity supply industry who believe that the opponents to the plans to build the Sizewell PWR will prove less persistent than they were at the inquiry into the plans to expand the nuclear fuel plant at Windscale in Cumbria . |
| 10 | In that year , Haringey 's Labour councillors learned more about heterosexism than they would ever have believed possible , and they have become far more articulate in their defence of lesbian and gay rights than they were at the time of their election . |
| 11 | AFRICA is the only continent in the poor world where people ended the 1980s worse off than they were at the start . |
| 12 | Moreover , although their constitutional and political position depended on their new relationship to " the people " they were not instructed delegates of their constituents any more than they were at the mercy of the party whips in the Commons . |
| 13 | Lyndon Bolton , the managing director , yesterday described prospects as more encouraging than they were at the time of the interim report in August . |
| 14 | At the end of a day 's banking some banks are going to be more liquid , as a result of net deposits and other banks are going to be less liquid than they were at the beginning of the day 's business , as a result of a net withdrawal of deposits . |
| 15 | However , the experience in New South Wales so far suggests that sentences under the new dispensation are certainly no lower than they were under the old regime . |
| 16 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 17 | The inevitable result is that the more adventurous or less safe ways of operating public transport aircraft are far less common now than they were before the days of flight recorders . |
| 18 | The International Atomic Energy Agency 's marine environment laboratory says that parts of the Gulf are cleaner than they were before the war , although there are still heavily contaminated spots . |
| 19 | The government 's er oil revenues have gone up by £345 million , er that 's an average of £7.1 million a day , since the Gulf crisis started , and er they 're now running at over £13 million a day more than they were before the crisis commenced . |
| 20 | Mr Lawson is right to say that deficits are more sustainable than they were in the 1970s . |
| 21 | Despite recent improvements , unemployment is more than 20% , and real wages are lower than they were in the early 1980s . |
| 22 | They are still abundant at present , although a little less common in shallow water sites than they were in the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic , but they are conspicuous and varied components of deep water faunas . |
| 23 | In terms of space , sunlight and unpolluted air , the squatters are better off than they were in the crowded , unventilated and noisy slum courts . |
| 24 | In the 1990s class divisions are in many respects less consciously felt than they were in the post-war era , but there are other divisions which pose a threat to the sense of community , national identity and social cohesion . |
| 25 | All of these matters are embraced much more enthusiastically in the Supplement than they were in the original design bulletin . |
| 26 | In the 1980s , the personnel departments of many organisations are a lot slimmer than they were in the 1970s . |
| 27 | But that should not stop us from recognising that things are very much better in the '90s than they were in the '70s . |
| 28 | No doubt conditions today are far more egalitarian than they were in the nineteenth century , but then only a privileged few had the vote . |
| 29 | Today the relations between the trade unions and the judiciary are worse than they were in the period immediately following the Taff Vale decision in 1901 . |
| 30 | Thus most places are now characterized by longer life expectancy , lower fertility , higher average age , smaller household size and more lone-parent families than they were in the early 1960s . |