Example sentences of "[ex0] were [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as he was beginning to adapt to the fact that there were Muslims — and that some of them were quite pleasant — it turned out that there were as many strains of Muslim as there were of the virus responsible for the common cold . |
| 2 | There were at the time parallel proceedings against the mortgagees to preserve the plaintiff 's priority rights against the property by virtue of the caution entered at the Land Registry , and it was the mortgagees who requested an adjournment from 6 June 1991 to a later date . |
| 3 | There are 100 million more free prescriptions this year than there were at the time of the last Labour Government . |
| 4 | She must wait months , if not years , for an interview with an Entry Clearance Officer at a British diplomatic mission on the Indian subcontinent , go through endless interrogations about such subjects as the colour of the family 's goat or the number of rooms in the house she lives in or how many guests there were at the wedding and what happened on the wedding night . |
| 5 | She said : ‘ I looked round to see how many bodies there were on the floor . |
| 6 | There were on the film set few of the moments I had come to dread during the run of the stage show — when he 'd slap me down , or even when he would encourage me , egg me on . ’ |
| 7 | To risk his job — and Sir Daniel had made it very clear that he did risk it — was a courageous thing to do when you considered how few editors ' chairs there were on the Street . |
| 8 | Well , it was supposed to be a holiday , and I did promise Claire I would n't take anything to do with work to Barbados , but both of us noticed fairly quickly just how few dogs there were on the island . |
| 9 | There are now approximately 2 million more weavers operating in Persia than there were during the time of the late Shah , and , even if this trend is reversed , existing stocks are large enough to keep the Western markets more than adequately supplied for a decade or so . |
| 10 | Around Preston and East Linton there were by the middle of the nineteenth century seven watermills : in the whole of East Lothian the total in 1854 was recorded as 73 . |
| 11 | I think it would be a crying shame if the country pub disappeared but they need customers and there are n't the customers around that there were in the past . ’ |
| 12 | Just as today there are towns , villages , hamlets and farmsteads , so there were in the past . |
| 13 | There were probably more books here — real books — than there were in the rest of Chung Kuo . |
| 14 | Somebody did n't even know how many months there were in the year ! |
| 15 | In June he went up to Leeds for a three-week holiday : the air of the Yorkshire moors always did him good , and there were in the vicinity a doctor , an oculist and a radiologist to examine him periodically . |
| 16 | There were in the parliament at the end of 1989 twenty-nine European Greens and fourteen members ( including two defectors from the Greens ) of their old partnership , the Rainbow Group , a ‘ technical ’ gathering of green-tinged communists , nationalists and anti-EC Danes . |
| 17 | In proportion to population there were now more NSDAP members in Danzig than there were in the Reich . |
| 18 | I 'd also forgotten how many nasty stinging things there were in the country . |
| 19 | Industrial disputes became more serious : there were more working days lost through such disputes in the period from 1970 to 1978 than there were in the whole of the period from 1946 to 1969 . |
| 20 | A back door led out to the carport and there were two windows , just as there were in the front . |
| 21 | One of the guests asked the others to bet on how many metro systems there were in the world . |
| 22 | Gabriel had never realized how many sick or imperfect people there were in the world . |
| 23 | So , in September 1989 , Helen found herself working part time and researching what gaps there were in the childcare market . |
| 24 | I 'd forgotten just how many sharp edges there were in the countryside . |
| 25 | There were before the election Conservatives who wanted a Tory defeat in the hope of a subsequent reconstruction under a new , more Thatcherite leader — who would restore the purity which Mr Patten was being allowed to destroy . |
| 26 | This shows that in well over eighty percent there were fewer tumours at the three month cystoscopy than there were before the B G C was instilled . |
| 27 | Despite these difficulties there are almost as many children now attending primary schools as there were before the invasion , and many teachers are carrying on without regular salaries . |