Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local transmissions of the External Service were for the many expatriates working in the country who understood little or no Swahili . |
| 2 | The Sleeping Saloons of the same era were of the same dimensions and weighed about 40 tons . |
| 3 | The overnight passage to Aberdeen was wild and stormy and my brother Ian and I were amongst the few passengers on board capable of doing proper justice to the excellent dinner provided . |
| 4 | In b and c , the local times of each point were within a few hours of local noon and so the ClO values may be taken as qualitatively representative of the day maximum , which in run 4 reached 1.1p.p.b.v. at this level . |
| 5 | They drew down to the back of the hummock which remained an ivy-grown tump until they were within a few paces and could see rough-hewn timber planks behind it . |
| 6 | They set off quite cheerily , but when they were within a few miles of the tarmac coast road , the truck hit a gully and gave a sickening lurch . |
| 7 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
| 8 | An example I quote is of two particular members of staff who had been there a long time , and so , when I walked into the staff room , they were in the same seats . |
| 9 | An Armenian whose family came from Erzerum or Kars is neighbour to other Armenians whose parents or grandparents came from the same towns , just as Palestinians from Haifa — or from Mrs Zamzam 's village of Um Al-Farajh — now live in refugee camps next to those whose homes were in the same places , sometimes in the very same streets , in what was Palestine . |
| 10 | These were among the many questions asked when Esquire commissioned MORI to undertake Britain 's most detailed survey of male sexuality . |
| 11 | Kirkcudbright , Huntly , Eyemouth , Stirling and Edinburgh were among the many places which yielded unwanted vehicles for the collection . |
| 12 | Inflation reached levels beyond the control of the authorities , and mines and bakeries were among the few concerns continuing to operate , as workers did not arrive to work or raw materials were lacking . |
| 13 | The three service chiefs were among the few officers unaffected . |
| 14 | Vivien Eliot was buried in a cemetery in Pinner , Middlesex ; her husband and her brother were among the few mourners . |
| 15 | They had blue-chip credit standing , and were among the few counterparties with plenty of fixed-rate interest payments to swap for floating-rate ones . |
| 16 | Smith himself was for a few years a tutor at Christ Church , but in 1795 he resigned his studentship to become incumbent of Daventry ( a Christ Church living ) , returning to Christ Church as a canon in 1807 . |
| 17 | The Plan B mentioned last year was for the All Blacks to make only a fleeting visit to Australia , thus opening the way for the South Africans to make a short tour to Australia and then for the All Blacks to go to South Africa . |
| 18 | It has been noted that it was for the same crimes that Klaus Barbie was sentenced by the courts in Lyon to life imprisonment . |
| 19 | Johnson Matthey was amongst the many companies with chemicals operations in the locality taking part . |
| 20 | But in spite of Tess 's decision to forget her ancestors , the dairy , called Talbothays , especially attracted her because it was near the former lands of the old d'Urberville family . |
| 21 | One minute there he was with a few scraps of grey hair plastered across his scalp — the next he looks like a prizewinner at Cruft 's Dog Show . |
| 22 | For the next 2000 years the abstract/axiomatic approach was with a few exceptions replaced by a more concrete intuitive approach . |
| 23 | But the way he did it was with the same connections he defied , and to get into serious racing in his early days , he got a bank to give him credit and a sponsor to give him some backing : though he had n't , of his own , a sou in the world . |
| 24 | While his parents could only be with him during the occasional break in a hectic schedule , at least Diana knew that he was under the same skies . |
| 25 | The most that was achieved was in a few examples of new highway construction ( in London the long-standing schemes of the Great West Road and the North Circular came to fruition ) ; and in the bigger cities , there were road-widening schemes , some stretches of dual carriageway and the occasional new project ( such as the Headrow in Leeds linked to redevelopment ) and some spectacular new projects ( such as the new suspension bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle and the Mersey Tunnel at Liverpool/Birkenhead ) . |
| 26 | Paula Bale , the Fijian-born Canterbury winger who played for New Zealand in Suva last weekend and was in the All Blacks ' squad for the RWC Sevens at Murrayfield from 16-18 April , has been given clearance by the NZRFU to represent Fiji — proof , yet again , of what a farcical situation the present haphazard laws on international eligibility place the game . |
| 27 | It was in the same colours as the bunting , red , white and blue . |
| 28 | COLIN Jackson was within a few inches of Olympic disaster last night in his bid for the 110 metres hurdles crown . |
| 29 | When she was within a few feet of the ground , the cat leapt from her and rubbed itself against its mistress 's legs . |
| 30 | The hiss was clear on MW and LW while the calculator was within a few feet of the set , but not on FM . |