Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ = and they were going to stay there for a few weeks until their faces were off the front pages and they could tiptoe away . |
| 2 | Plain hospital beds with flock mattresses laid on interlaced wire springs were for the junior members of the staff . |
| 3 | The local transmissions of the External Service were for the many expatriates working in the country who understood little or no Swahili . |
| 4 | The turnout was reported to be 99.78 per cent of the electorate ; 100 per cent of total votes cast were for the successful candidates . |
| 5 | His particular predilections when he started were for the young artists of his won age who were beginning to reject the immediate traditions of their predecessors and experiment with new formulas of expression and technique in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 6 | Why should the best , soberest and ablest workers be the ones most likely to form trade unions , since they were the very ones who were worth the highest wages and the most regular employment ? |
| 7 | In the box Boy kept a few books and a lot of letters ; apart from his clothes these were about the only things he had in the flat that were his own . |
| 8 | These contests were between the various components of the formal Palestinian movement , Fatah , the DFLP , the PFLP , the Communist Party , and also the Islamic Tendency , which was strong in Hebron and Gaza and enjoyed substantial support elsewhere . |
| 9 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the directive would force employers to pay national insurance for employees who were below the lower earnings limit and that , effectively , that would be a tax on businesses that wish to employ part-time workers ? |
| 10 | A recent Government survey found that in women , the average intakes of iron from food were below the recommended levels . |
| 11 | The arrangement of the signs and symbols is designed to encourage a deepening awareness of their " pointing-towards " character ; the deeper we penetrate behind the scenes as it were of the various words and actions , the closer can they be seen to become because all alike are pointing towards that Mystery which is beyond straightforward conceptual understanding . |
| 12 | Deep carpet covered the floors and the stairs swept up to the showrooms and the warren of workrooms beyond , and though the window drapes and furnishings were ever-so-slightly faded , as if they had seen better days , they were of the finest silks and velvets and every corner was swept , polished and cleaned daily so that no single speck of dust , let alone a cobweb , dared show itself . |
| 13 | The Sleeping Saloons of the same era were of the same dimensions and weighed about 40 tons . |
| 14 | Detectives say they 're almost certain the same people were behind the two break-ins carried out in a north Oxfordshire village . |
| 15 | Yet I knew big Sunday dinners and family get-togethers were behind the closed doors . |
| 16 | As soon as they were amongst the shuttered houses of Edinburgh , Corbett slowed down and turned to grin at the pale , terrified face of Ranulf . |
| 17 | In both 1981–84 and 1984–87 Berkshire , Buckinghamshire , Cambridgeshire , Dorset and Oxfordshire were amongst the fast-growing counties , along with Cornwall and the Isle of Wight . |
| 18 | I repeat , we were amongst the better-off families . |
| 19 | The Booth family were amongst the leading chapmen who organised the nail trade in the rural parishes that lay to the north of Sheffield . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Their faces were like the grotesque masks of street carnivals , their clothes the cruel parodies of stamping clowns . |
| 22 | The well-fleshed ghosts of my imaginings were like the insistent daimones of classical times who , if neglected , drove their victim to ever-greater follies . |
| 23 | His eyelashes were like the feathery brushes of a model 's compact . |
| 24 | Her cries of sorrow and anger were like the fleeting cries of dawn birds , banished from this forbidden place of battle , this Bird Spirit Land … |
| 25 | erm in general we must remember that Iran was erm stating very clearly that it was exporting it 's revolution and there were statements which came out from the Iraqui from the Irani revolutionary committee that they were against the Arab states at the time and that they were very committed towards liberating Israel through Baghdad and such statements was coming , so obviously erm the Arabs had to stick together according to charter of the league of Arab states , which everybody was a member of , and Iraq being subjected to war it was natural for the Arabs to give Iraq support . |
| 26 | Many people were along the right lines in naming the object as a hairdressing or veterinary tool , and among the more exotic replies were a Victorian music-box , a portable printing set and a wig maintenance kit . |
| 27 | Mr. Howell 's submissions for the applicants , which Simon Brown J. accepted , were along the following lines . |
| 28 | His thoughts were with the two figures ahead , so tightly linked beneath the sheltering dome of the umbrella . |
| 29 | A comparison of the 52 estimates of annual lampsilis growth that were with the 247 estimates of measurement error shows that shell shrinkage is much greater than would be expected from measurement errors alone ( n=299 , P<0.0001 ) . |
| 30 | Allard had arrived in Paris from Lille in the spring of 1910 and his first contacts were with the future Cubists ; because of this , his criticism is doubly interesting as representing their ideas unclouded by outside opinion . |