Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Danish pig prices were stable during the latter half of June , at just under 102p/kg , but started dropping about 1p/kg a week from the beginning of July . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought you and he were interested in the same things . ’ |
| 3 | You were interested in the same thing . |
| 4 | Many natural foods we have happily consumed for centuries would never be allowed to be sold in the shops today if they were subject to the same tests as modern drugs and edible substances . |
| 5 | The cuffs and the waistband were ribbed in the same colour . |
| 6 | After the attempted coup in July-August [ see pp. 37606-07 ] , concerns over security were paramount in the latter part of 1990 . |
| 7 | They were typical of the many Europeans we met who were tired of conventional holidays . |
| 8 | We also tested the methylation pattern of expressing ( -300bp promoter deletion ) and non-expressing ( -55bp promoter deletion ) transgenes and found that both transgene were unmethylated to the same extent ( data not shown ) . |
| 9 | He was also concerned about the reliability of the data : for example , that no measure of agreement was given for observations made when pairs of inspectors were present in the same classroom . |
| 10 | In 1895 , when the ratemahatmaya of Katugampola Hatpattu in Kurunagala complained that Low Countrymen from Chilaw district were stealing cattle and removing them to their own district , the Low Country mudaliyar concerned replied that the charge was false , and that Kandyans were involved in the few cases of cattle stealing . |
| 11 | Where the rights in question are spelt out , they are often lumped together , as if they were all of the same kind . |
| 12 | It was a great night and I 'm sure our invited guests were all of the same mind . |
| 13 | They were all about the same age as my daughter Kate , and three were fighting for their lives . |
| 14 | Quite apart from the ones I killed ( and they were all about the same age I was when I murdered them ) I can think of at least three of our family who went to whatever they imagined their Maker was like in unusual ways . |
| 15 | Three concrete blocks were cemented to the patio stones at the rear of the new pond as a base for this filter — it was important that these were all at the same level . |
| 16 | In Friedmann 's models , the galaxies are all moving directly away from each other-so it is not surprising that at some time in the past they were all at the same place . |
| 17 | But every little detail seemed crucial and it was something I struggled with all the way through , but knowing that Cathy , Joan and I were all on the same wavelength and felt the same level of commitment was a great relief . |
| 18 | At Leicester , for instance , the changing benches , bath and lavatory were all in the same room . ’ |
| 19 | I pointed out that Sara , Greg and Barney were all in the same position : they had n't chosen to be born to us . |
| 20 | Instead of a series of national financial systems linked by a few operators buying and selling credit across the exchanges , we now have a global system , in which national markets , physically separate , function as if they were all in the same place . |
| 21 | When you came to get your your contract with er te te te and you were all in the same c contract , was that because you got together as a union , or whether you got t together as the worker ? |
| 22 | There 's quite a few around us because then we was not going onto a council estate from the one room , and we were all in the same boat together . |
| 23 | Whilst animal by-product and chemical plants were responsible for the most complaints , odours from manure spreading and intensive pig and poultry farms affected the largest number of local authorities as shown in Table 2 below . |
| 24 | The songs were concerned with the same themes of love , death , deprivation , hardship , romantic yearnings and self-denial . |
| 25 | If you were one of the few to risk the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Monday , you would have been able to find no information about the composers being played . |
| 26 | Mice were one of the few things that Miss Fogerty could not endure . |
| 27 | In the whole sorry saga , West Bromwich Albion were one of the few parties to emerge with dignity . |
| 28 | Here , in splendid isolation , emerged a tribe of Polynesians who were prepared to address problems such as this , and who moreover were one of the few peoples in the world to develop a system of writing . |
| 29 | Throughout that decade Vox were one of the few British guitar ‘ names ’ , and certain models from that era have become much sought-after by collectors . |
| 30 | ‘ The frets were one of the few things I actually bought for the guitar . |