Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that ‘ official ’ criminals were overwhelmingly from the working class and were seen to be responding to the same forces that promoted socialist consciousness tended to favour at least a positive , if not heroic view of their activities . |
| 2 | to walk round the bread shelves twice and they were right on the bottom shelf when I eventually tracked them down and they had the hot cross buns on the shelves . |
| 3 | And we were right in the front row and that ruddy music she had ! |
| 4 | No doubt some of them were rather on the dreary side but that is not the full story by any means . |
| 5 | The GPs were as divided as they were independent , and being geographically isolated from each other were rather like the French peasants described by Marx ( 1953 ) as ‘ potatoes in a sack ’ . |
| 6 | The day was faintly foggy ; lights were on on the tall hazy meccano sculptures of oil rigs moored in the Firth . |
| 7 | Lights were on in the primary school . |
| 8 | Their homes were mostly in the traditional working-class districts of the city , whether the tenements of the Old Town and South Side , or the lower-built streets north of the New Town between Edinburgh and the port of Leith . |
| 9 | It had been written by a Syrian monk around 500 ad with the idea that contemplative monks were most like the highest orders of angels , closest to the Godhead in heaven . |
| 10 | The Syllabus of Errors of 1864 ( see p. 131 above ) and the Vatican Council demonstrated , by the very extremism of their rejection of everything that characterised the mid-nineteenth century , that they were entirely on the defensive . |
| 11 | When the storm broke they were literally in the front line , but they continued to stock The Satanic Verses and in many cases display it prominently . |
| 12 | Sanatoria , popular by the end of the century , were only for the better-off , apart from some charitable foundations , and in any case had little effect . |
| 13 | You were only in the other room . |
| 14 | They did n't do many subjects together and were only in the same group for French and history . |
| 15 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 16 | The concentration and total amount of caecal and colonic SCFAs were less in the low fibre diet rats ( Table II , p= 0.001 ) . |
| 17 | On Sunday evening nearly all the apostles were together in the upper room where Jesus appeared to them . |
| 18 | They were together in the big cupboard behind the staff room , refilling the sugar bowls . |
| 19 | but you can do it because you know you can go back home as it were in to the other area . |
| 20 | Inevitably , months later , some actor will hiss , ‘ Heard you were in for the first half the other night , ’ prompting instant fabrication of husband having a miscarriage and mad cow disease in row F ) . |
| 21 | We were in for the worst . |
| 22 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 23 | Yeah I mean me I it may be inappropriate at this moment in time to say we will do it now because of obvious reasons but prior to the recession it was an ongoing thing that the the board were in through the general manager were actually writing to many companies . |
| 24 | We never saw Chilete until suddenly we were in among the grey ghosts of houses , the road rutted now and full of mud . |
| 25 | The driver 's morals were obviously of the same low standard as his/her driving , as no apology or name and address was left . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We were down at the main road . |
| 28 | In particular , the Home-Grown Cereals Authority reports exports of wheat 30 per cent were down on the previous harvest — mostly due to dearer prices . |
| 29 | The sharply lower rhodium price depressed revenues in the chemicals and refining business and profits for the year were down on the previous period . |
| 30 | By the end of 1923 levels were down to the best pre-1921 records for Saratov . |