Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in 1988 those three boroughs were each among the top five increases in Labour share of the vote . |
| 2 | Roeder tentatively puts it at 1000 finished pictures and complains that there were few at the British Museum , still fewer in provincial libraries . |
| 3 | The inhabitants of these tombs were some of the earliest explorers of the upper reaches of the Nile . |
| 4 | They were some of the first cars to be withdrawn when the fleet was modernised , and they were scrapped in 1934 . |
| 5 | To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars . |
| 6 | These were some of the nine old age pensioners , dressed in building-site hard hats , who roam the Old Course . |
| 7 | And mingled among these honoured guests , many of whom wore beautiful black hats with the hint of a veil , or faded velvet jackets , were some of the up-and-thrusting National Salvation Front Ministers the sons of the very men and women who had helped to destroy Romania 's culture . |
| 8 | They were some of the best he 'd ever taken , he said , but it was difficult to tell since he 'd dropped them in the water when he was changing film . |
| 9 | The nuns were some of the best doctors in a Europe and saved may a person from death but old Henry put paid to them , flattening the convent and pillaging its treasures . |
| 10 | I know most of you will have seen the 7–0 vs Southampton ( 32 passes was n't it ) , or the 5–1 vs Man Utd , but I reckon the 4–0 murder of Aston Villa ( who were in the top 5 at the time ) at Villa Park and the 6–1 at Hillsborough were some of the best soccer I have ever seen . |
| 11 | They beat Swansea City in the new-look Coca Cola cup by three goals to nil.There to enjoy the party were some of the early pioneers of local football . |
| 12 | The melodies of Zarewitsch were some of the loveliest and most powerful Lehar had ever written . |
| 13 | His three years at Cambridge were some of the happiest of his life and also the most normal . |
| 14 | André Previn 's 1970s recordings of the complete Tchaikovsky ballets were some of the happiest collaborations with the LSO , and ‘ Rouge et Noir ’ puts together nearly 150 minutes of well-chosen extracts from Swan Lake , Sleeping Beauty and Nutcracker . |
| 15 | ‘ The interval spent from my native shores were some of the happiest days of my life … |
| 16 | Considerably more rewarding were some of the elaborate effects tried out for ‘ Planet of Giants ’ , worked out in collusion with Producer Mervyn Pinfield and trainee Director Douglas Camfield . |
| 17 | Those were some of the high hopes at the start of Challenge 93 as representatives from seven European states parachuted into RAF Weston On The Green in Oxfordshire . |
| 18 | Near to the landing-pier were some of the older houses of the town , and by climbing a steep street , the old castle may be leisurely inspected , and it quite merits a visit . |
| 19 | The city banks ( Japan 's version of commercial banks ) were some of the worst culprits . |
| 20 | Housing conditions in Greenock in JTR 's day were some of the worst in Britain . |
| 21 | The London and New York smogs of the 1950s and 1960s were some of the worst sulphurous smogs to have occurred whilst , since the 1940s , Los Angeles has provided many examples of the worst photochemical ( ozone ) smogs . |
| 22 | Nor were some of the earlier beach reconnaissances the most encouraging of precedents , although Clogstoun-Willmott did not know this at the time . |
| 23 | However , very little is known of any deaf aristocrats prior to 1750 , but there were some in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , a number of whom achieved political renown . |
| 24 | Perhaps there were some among the good number , nominated by the local science advisers , who administered the practical tests and marked the papers . |
| 25 | Perhaps there were some among the good number , nominated by the local science advisers , who administered the practical tests and marked the papers . |
| 26 | This time we were promoted to co-headliners , with Roogalator who were another of the big names on the pub rock circuit at the time . |
| 27 | They quite often leaped about on national monuments screaming , ripping apart their black pyjamas , and generally behaving as if you were all of the Grateful Dead rolled into one . |
| 28 | Where the rights in question are spelt out , they are often lumped together , as if they were all of the same kind . |
| 29 | It was a great night and I 'm sure our invited guests were all of the same mind . |
| 30 | These birds , with now and then a solitary Rhynchops and frigate bird ( Tachypeles aquilus ) , were all of the feathered race that I observed in these heated latitudes , a part of the voyage which always hang heavily upon those destined to visit these distant regions ; by me , however , it was not so much felt , the monotony being relieved by the occasional occurrence of a whale , whose huge body rolled lazily by ; by a shoal of porpoises , which sometimes perform most amusing evolutions , throwing themselves completely out of the water , or gliding through it with astonishing velocity ; or by the occasional flight of the beautiful flying fish , when endeavouring to escape from the impetuous rush of the bonito or albacore . |