Example sentences of "were [adj] [conj] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 In this period barriers to trade were high and thus the multinational structure of operationally-independent companies was a necessity .
2 Many of her gentleman clients were foreign and even the odd Arab prince had come to her office .
3 Three subsequent balloon dilations were unsuccessful and finally the patient was referred to our institution .
4 On the whole the roads were good and also the Inns — the latter however are extravagantly high in their charges .
5 The decision also followed appeals for a postponement from many within the 12-party Unity Assembly , Haiti 's opposition coalition , who were concerned that neither the safety of voters nor the fairness of the poll could be guaranteed because of the prevailing climate of violence and lawlessness within the country .
6 Trading profits in the communications division were more than double the figure for the first half year thanks to the cost control programme .
7 Prior to World War I , infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population .
8 Wheat prices at 13s. 4d. a quarter were more than double the normal ( though not as disastrously high as in the notorious famine years of 1315–17 ) , barley at 6s. -7s. was up by over 50 per cent and peas and beans at 6s. had tripled in cost ( 209 , pp.266–73 .
9 Environmental concern mushroomed during the 1960s and was stimulated by warnings about the impact of human activity and by debates about the extent to which earth resources were finite and therefore the basis for a pessimistic or optimistic future for spaceship earth .
10 Originally the horns were lyre-shaped and traditionally the animals were horn-tethered .
11 However , the skills required to build such systems were rare and also the required combinations of software and computer hardware were expensive .
12 ‘ There was n't a ha'porth of prejudice in him — except that the Welsh were marvellous and especially the Welsh-speaking Welsh and most particularly those from Pontrhydyfen and most of all the Jenkins family .
13 Quorshi commented that companies would only do this when they were satisfied that both the PC product and the company selling it had the proper standing .
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