Example sentences of "they were [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would thus have been guilty of perjury if he had submitted them when they were not to the best of his knowledge correct and complete . |
| 2 | One of the odder aspects of the 1992 election was the anecdotal evidence from polling station officers who reported to the Market Research Society that many people tried to vote , but only discovered that they were not on the register when they got to the polling station . |
| 3 | Kunstavisen reports in its March/April number that not only did many artists protest because they were not on the list but one contacted them to say that he had lost the possibility of a big exhibition because he had not been included . |
| 4 | It is not quite clear what he meant by this ; the point may well be not that the new kings — Eardwulf in Northumbria , and Coenwulf in Mercia — were of non-royal stock but that they were not of the lineage , respectively , of Aethelred and Offa — but it could easily be construed as a slur . |
| 5 | They were not like the crew quarters , but reminded him more of a hospital , even before he saw what appeared to be an operating theatre . |
| 6 | Geoffrey Fisher went from Repton to be Bishop of Chester and invited him to be an examining chaplain ; which he accepted — it would mean two or three visits a year — and was surprised to find how friendly Fisher was when they were not in the relation of boy and headmaster . |
| 7 | Two Government reports had concluded they were not in the public interest . |
| 8 | Improve your mood and counteract stress : Ask anyone who exercises regularly and they will tell you that they always feel exhilarated at the end of a session — even if they had begun by feeling that they were not in the mood for exercise and had almost forced themselves to continue . |
| 9 | The law demanded that they attend school for the few hours they were not in the theatre , but time spent on education was minimal as the pantomime was so popular that there were matinées most days . |
| 10 | ‘ They were not in the safe ? ’ |
| 11 | Dagbladet yesterday brought a table from the spanish first division ( =premier ) with albacete listed even though they were not in the top five : ie they listed the top-five teams some ‘ … ’ and albacete : im quite sure that mean something though nothing more in the papers today . |
| 12 | But Lakeside resident Ron Howe said they were not against the traffic calming proposals for Skerne Park . |
| 13 | You heard when they were n't at the reservation any more and you heard of the new man arriving . |
| 14 | And of course in the old days they just were n't available because they were n't on the market . |
| 15 | They were on reserve , which meant that they were n't on the shelves but had to be ordered from the stock by a librarian . |
| 16 | They were n't on the dance-floor , either . |
| 17 | Cos they were n't near the glasses . |
| 18 | You did n't have to be a genius to work out they were n't from the Lord 's Day Observance Society . |
| 19 | They were n't in the actual flat at that time er their role was to er prevent members of the public whilst the armed officers were at the scene erm from entering the corridors at either end of the block of flats . |
| 20 | They were n't , they were n't in the wall ? |
| 21 | In other words they were n't in the |
| 22 | they were n't in the ordinary fixed roll |
| 23 | They were n't in the studio |
| 24 | Yeah tell them that you wanted them , and they were n't like the description |
| 25 | In November 1987 they were up before the court on badger digging charges — one got off due to inadequate evidence . |
| 26 | They were up against the absolute certainty of guilt expressed by all the parties weighed against them . |
| 27 | ‘ It was funny to see those agents ’ faces when they discovered they were up against the famous Marc Vila ! |
| 28 | Even the height of it had to be lowered by two storeys when Ceauşescu decided thirteen storeys would be quite enough ( unlike Elena he was not superstitious ) , and no one pointed out that they were already on the fifteenth floor . |
| 29 | By a statesmanlike not an enthusiastic appeal Buxton may have calculated on maximising pressure for policy revision and politically isolating the West Indian interest , believing that they were already on the defensive morally and ideologically . |
| 30 | They were already in the sala , having a pre-dinner drink , when Maggie walked in , and she knew that at least one pair of dark eyes watched her sardonically . |