Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [conj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this period barriers to trade were high and thus the multinational structure of operationally-independent companies was a necessity . |
| 2 | Many of her gentleman clients were foreign and even the odd Arab prince had come to her office . |
| 3 | Three subsequent balloon dilations were unsuccessful and finally the patient was referred to our institution . |
| 4 | On the whole the roads were good and also the Inns — the latter however are extravagantly high in their charges . |
| 5 | The decision also followed appeals for a postponement from many within the 12-party Unity Assembly , Haiti 's opposition coalition , who were concerned that neither the safety of voters nor the fairness of the poll could be guaranteed because of the prevailing climate of violence and lawlessness within the country . |
| 6 | Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme . |
| 7 | Prior to World War I , infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population . |
| 8 | Wheat prices at 13s. 4d. a quarter were more than double the normal ( though not as disastrously high as in the notorious famine years of 1315–17 ) , barley at 6s. -7s. was up by over 50 per cent and peas and beans at 6s. had tripled in cost ( 209 , pp.266–73 . |
| 9 | Environmental concern mushroomed during the 1960s and was stimulated by warnings about the impact of human activity and by debates about the extent to which earth resources were finite and therefore the basis for a pessimistic or optimistic future for spaceship earth . |
| 10 | Originally the horns were lyre-shaped and traditionally the animals were horn-tethered . |
| 11 | However , the skills required to build such systems were rare and also the required combinations of software and computer hardware were expensive . |
| 12 | ‘ There was n't a ha'porth of prejudice in him — except that the Welsh were marvellous and especially the Welsh-speaking Welsh and most particularly those from Pontrhydyfen and most of all the Jenkins family . |
| 13 | Quorshi commented that companies would only do this when they were satisfied that both the PC product and the company selling it had the proper standing . |
| 14 | Oh well the role of the police , well of course they were opposed to the strikers but there were n't er quite so many police you see and and the strike movement was strong and so the the the they did n't have a great deal of affect . |
| 15 | Young Roberto 's mother died when he was eight and thereafter the boy rarely left the family villa of Baronta near Florence . |
| 16 | By the early sixties … it was clear that neither the efforts made in the first post-war decade nor the developments outlined in Mr Butler 's White Paper were reducing — or were likely to reduce — the volume of crime or the numbers of persistent offenders . |
| 17 | They stood to attention , but it was clear that both the administrator and his deputy were unsure of the proper response . |
| 18 | Shipbuilding was in crisis , and it was clear that only the fittest could survive . |
| 19 | Shearman recalled that , at first , discussion with Hickson was unpromising but eventually the appointment of Pateman to the post , vacant from 1928 , was confirmed . |
| 20 | The rate ratio for admission was similar when only the first admission of each child was counted ( 27 vs 42 , rate ratio 0.65 [ 0.41–1.04 ] , p=0.09 ) . |
| 21 | The King , however , made it clear that neither mother nor son was welcome and so the journey to England had to be resumed . |
| 22 | Law and morality were not yet clearly distinguished , nor could one even say that the whole of law or justice was to be found in any one court ; the Ecclesiastical Courts , and Local Courts of many different kinds , administered a justice which was not the justice of the Common Law Courts ; so the thought was natural that even the King 's justice was not exhausted in the power conferred on his courts . |
| 23 | Although he was only eighteen months older than Carrie he was in the top class and sometimes he was taught on his own by Mr Morgan , the Minister , because he was cleverer than even the most senior boys . |
| 24 | It was argued that since any payment above the standard rent would be illegal and indeed a criminal offence under section 17 of that Act , the lease itself was unlawful and accordingly the agreement for commission fixed upon the amount of the rent stipulated in it was also illegal and irrecoverable . |
| 25 | Students taking an opposing view argued that it was the usage of the media that was evil and not the media themselves . |
| 26 | But there was still you know a substantial It was more or less the same case as we had before in terms of the traffic relief that each afforded and the economic rates of return . |
| 27 | I would n't of thought so , I would of thought it was more or less the van than anything else |
| 28 | The median pepsin output in the H pylori positive duodenal ulcer patients ( 29 , 19–60 ) was higher than both the H pylori positive ( p<0.005 ) and negative ( p<0.001 ) healthy volunteers . |
| 29 | And after the barbed wire was another fence that was higher and again the floodlights played and caught on the cutting edges … and after the high barbed wire was a wooden fence that was three yards high . |
| 30 | Marion , a ripely handsome woman in her mid-thirties , who had played a season at Stratford-on-Avon and toured as Mrs Tanqueray , was extremely displeased at having to share Jessie , let alone a dressing-room , and particularly with a chit like Bunty ; but the Regent was small and naturally the two Star dressing-rooms , 1 and 2 , went to Salt and Pepper , that perennial and professionally married pair of comedy-thriller performers whose productions never ran for less than a year — a godsend in a profession where rehearse for three weeks , open and close in two was not unusual . |