Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [adj] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most problematic of these , in view of their diversity , were the first and the last . |
| 2 | They took trouble to make sure our rooms in the hotel were the best and the result was that this was a very happy film to make . |
| 3 | Two other groups which were under-represented in terms of making such claims were the young and the elderly . |
| 4 | The Nov. 15 protests were the largest since the crushing of demonstrations in Bucharest by miners in June [ see pp. 37544-45 ] . |
| 5 | The conventional wisdom has been that those who left the countryside were the energetic and the intelligent , leaving only a residue of the old and the inert , but we also ought to note that the urban view has often been the exact opposite : that the towns have received the rural dregs — the drifters , the shiftless , the work-shy , the unattached flotsam of agricultural change . |
| 6 | The most powerful forces in the land were the British and the Russians . |
| 7 | Until that first excursion most travellers for pleasure were the wealthy and the aristocracy who travelled independently ; less privileged people travelled only through necessity . |
| 8 | He concluded that , albeit the discretion he had under section 78 of the Act of 1984 might be wider than the discretion at common law , the criteria of unfairness were the same whether the discretion was being exercised at common law or under the statute , that paragraph C10.1 had no application to the situation , and that admission of the challenged evidence would not have an adverse effect on the fairness of the trial within section 78 . |
| 9 | Held , dismissing the appeals , ( 1 ) that , in considering the discretion to exclude evidence on the ground of unfairness , it could not sensibly be judged by different standards depending on the source of the discretion , for the criteria of unfairness were the same whether the discretion arose at common law or under section 78 of the Act of 1984 ; and that , since the judge had considered the operation including obtaining the fingerprints as a whole , the exercise of his discretion was not only not unreasonable but was correct ( post , pp. 234H — 235A , 236A ) . |
| 10 | On the other hand , if Marx , like most of the anthropologists of his time , saw the study of human society as the continuation of biological evolution , he did not , as they did , believe that human historical processes were the same as the processes of natural selection . |
| 11 | In effect , these were the same as the general powers of a parent over a child of less than 14 years . |
| 12 | Mendeleev resisted evolutionary speculations , and also refused to speculate on whether the chemical atoms composing the elements were the same as the physical atoms imagined by natural philosophers , the ultimate building-blocks . |
| 13 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 14 | Cornish cattle and the Pictish cattle of Orkney in the tenth century were no bigger than the old Iron Age types and were short-horned . |
| 15 | You were no worse than the rest of them . |
| 16 | The natural resources of Florence were no more than the four elements available to all simple communities since antiquity : earth , air , water and fire . |
| 17 | Mr Johnston said this week 's reform talks were no more than the overture to a long debate that would run into the winter and become embroiled in GATT negotiations . |
| 18 | By now few proposals could be judged on their merits , only according to which national group put them forward ( or rather , each proposal was identified as if it were no more than the product of a national group ) . |
| 19 | A race lost , a father murdered , a career on the skids — they were no more than the opening scenes of a nightmare which was engulfing her . |
| 20 | Nor would the view serve any purpose , including the purpose for which it was devised , if it were no more than the idea that particular episodes of consciousness-say desiring-can be identified by their causal roles , where such identification does not give us their nature , or all of their nature . |
| 21 | They were no more than the truth , but now his mother would ring Victoria and Emma and they would ring him and it would be one question after another until he went completely mad and started calling for humming-bird sandwiches or something . |
| 22 | The heads of these children were no larger than the heads of matchsticks . |
| 23 | Both concluded that the families of educated women were no smaller than the average . |
| 24 | it was the fifth or the sixth of |
| 25 | So well known was the latter that the Department of Health and Social Security lists the elderly among patients ‘ who may be at increased risk ’ . |
| 26 | That 's why Nicholson 's character had to die ; he was the innocent and the only reason he was killed was because he was with two undesirable characters . |
| 27 | It was the 1960s before the bishops began to distance themselves from direct relationships with the government of the day . |
| 28 | There was the 9.15 and the 10.07 , and the midnight train that sometimes woke them from their dreams . |
| 29 | Britain 's jobless rate edged down to 5.6% in February , but the fall was the smallest since the present decline began in 1986 . |
| 30 | It was the smallest and the most remote of the four western oases . |