Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two branches studied , however , were in the same moderately safe Conservative constituency . |
| 2 | The fastest growth rates during this time were in the three least urban regions of southern England : East Anglia , South-West , and East Midlands ( table 3.6 ) . |
| 3 | Up to 1917 , Lenin 's views on national liberation were in the main uniquely related to the situation in Russia and the need to create an alliance for the overthrow of Tsarism . |
| 4 | The controls were on the left instead of in the middle . |
| 5 | Recorded MacLachlan in his diary : ‘ As ‘ A ’ Flight were on the 9 o'clock watch John decided to have all the blood-thirsty pilots on , in the hopes of getting a 109 . |
| 6 | The current story was about the innocent yet ignorant mistake the Scottish Chamber Orchestra had made in promoting their presentation of Stravinsky 's ‘ The Soldier 's Tale ’ which was to include professional dancers and actors and local schoolchildren who had been invited to participate . |
| 7 | She had the measles one Christmas and put the entire household in quarantine — that was about the only purely family story she told . |
| 8 | The view was about the same both ways . |
| 9 | Thus the distance from the bank to the nearest point of the island was about the same all the way around It resembled a moat , about thirty yards wide . |
| 10 | Psychology was of the first so it was ‘ still learning what the definition of psychology should be ’ . |
| 11 | It was like the sixties all over again , in a new , more austerely intellectual key . |
| 12 | At the 18th Sandy was in the semi-rough again , this time on the right-hand , with the fairway having yet another of St Georges ' hog 's backs on the way in . |
| 13 | Oh I think an electric drill it was in the sixties so with the twenty five pounds off it brought it down a bit and I , I paid for it with one cheque so I was n't having it on the weekly er er it worked out I think Vicki gave some of it towards it . |
| 14 | It was in the 1920s then that criticism developed apace and it became a socially respectable and intellectual orthodoxy to relate the worthlessness of the movies to the immaturity of the masses . |
| 15 | Then the dragon was in the open again . |
| 16 | Unemployment , now a major problem , was in the mid-seventies only a threat ; privatisation was not an issue ; government attacks on the trade union movement were a thing of the future . |
| 17 | As an example , personal , social and moral education was from the 1960s onwards a field where schools shared their experiences , their approaches and their materials . |
| 18 | Huy tried to pick his words carefully , but Nubenehem was on the defensive immediately . |
| 19 | Mo was on the defensive here . |
| 20 | The Republic , however , was on the defensive everywhere , and the relentless enemy onslaught on Madrid was draining its human , material and spiritual resources , as well as taking a heavy toll in political terms . |
| 21 | just to make my day just to make my day yeah well , I was n't sure what those you see , hang on a minute mum so er she said she 'll either get the twelve or the one so I went down to see if she was on the twelve o'clock bus , and she was n't so I thought well I 'll try again |
| 22 | no did n't see it , it was on the one o'clock news |
| 23 | It was on the six o'clock nat well it was on all day , one o'clock , two o'clock , three o'clock |
| 24 | I wondered how long it would take him , and whether Diggs would now have to go shouting through the town , warning that the mad boy who set fire to dogs was on the loose again ; lock up your hounds ! |