Example sentences of "were [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a rather odd way , 19th-century public schools were just as ideally suited for the fathers of gentlemen as they were for the sons of gentlemen . |
| 2 | In recent weeks our Moscow correspondent could have reported on why the voters in Lithuania had rejected Lansbergis and what the implications were for the prospects of democracy in Russia as well as Lithuania . |
| 3 | I have already mentioned that sixteen of Anselm 's forty-eight surviving letters of the period 1093–7 were about the problems of monks or nuns — a far higher proportion than on any other subject . |
| 4 | You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch . |
| 5 | Between 1987 and 1989 I conducted in-depth interviews with nearly forty parents of children with trisomy 21 ( so-called Down 's Syndrome ) who were between the ages of 2 and 7 . |
| 6 | Overhereoverthere , well ridden by Robbie Supple , has been with Upson for six years , but his only previous successes were between the flags in Ireland . |
| 7 | The generally slow and mellow nature of most of the tracks here shows just how wide the differences were between the styles of go-ahead be-bop ( as exemplified by Savoy 's Parker recordings ) and a more easy-going approach to jazz which developed in the late 1940s and '50s in the wake of the bop 's increasing hectic and adventurous music . |
| 8 | Ebert , Fest and I. We were after the assassins of the T'ang 's Minister , Lwo Kang , and had been told to wait for a contact from our Triad connections there . |
| 9 | This plan was no sloppily organized affair , aware as we were of the lengths to which threatened men will go to protect their most prized territory . |
| 10 | Although we in the UK were behind the Americans in introducing the mandatory carriage of FDRs in public transport aircraft fitted with turbine engines , we had the advantage of learning from their experience since some foreign registered aircraft of American manufacture which were fitted with FDRs crashed in the UK . |
| 11 | These situations were unlike the others in the study in that they were filmed in rural areas while the films showing junctions were generally in urban areas . |
| 12 | Then they were amongst the conifers near the road , a smell of resin and dead bracken , twigs catching their legs . |
| 13 | Turned wooden vessels were amongst the grave-goods in the ship burial of Sutton Hoo mound 1 . |
| 14 | While considering help and resources for Church of England communities , mention must be made of Stanbrook , a Roman Catholic abbey whose Dame Laurentia McLachlan and Dame Hildelith Cumming were amongst the pioneers of the modern use of plainchant . |
| 15 | In several schools , plans for rationalising the location and use of library and learning resources space were amongst the outcomes of committee deliberations . |
| 16 | The windows were like the windows of the children 's ward where Baby used to be , of white glass which you could n't see through . |
| 17 | Libby stared at the man 's eyes ; they were blue , but she did n't take in the colour , just the fact that they did not seem to see her , they looked at something else They were like the eyes of the blind man in Mallow , which looked everywhere but did not see as he tapped along the pavement . |
| 18 | Russells Hall pupils ' comments were along the lines of ‘ Ca n't they come back this afternoon ? ’ but also included : ‘ Dipak can draw well ’ and ‘ Marcelle thinks I 'm a really good writer . ’ |
| 19 | None of the original team who were with the women at the time of the move still work at their flat . |
| 20 | His chief concerns were with the conditions of labour and education of the working classes , and he was the instigator of the Factory Act of 18 19 , which prohibited the employment in textile mills of children under ten , and reduced working hours for those under eighteen . |
| 21 | Rather , they were with the events of August 1968 and , in particular , with the self-immolation of the young philosophy student , Jan Palach , in January 1969 . |
| 22 | Experiments like those done in France on the velocity of light , by Fizeau and Foucault , and in Britain by Airy on the variation in gravity in a coal mine , were under the auspices of the national observatories . |
| 23 | Furthermore , the frequencies evoked by stretching the nodes were within the ranges of the frequencies of the spontaneous movements observed in the lymph nodes from the other animals . |
| 24 | Such measures , exploited for electoral advantage , were within the capabilities of the government to provide . |
| 25 | The inevitable result is that the more adventurous or less safe ways of operating public transport aircraft are far less common now than they were before the days of flight recorders . |
| 26 | Every time I looked up , at the party , you were in the arms of another man . |
| 27 | if it shall appear by the record of the books , rolls and memoranda of his court , or by ancient perambulations , or by any other sufficient evidence , that any royal demesnes , or lands or woods which were in the forests before the time of Henry II , had been excluded by the late perambulations , then they shall be re-afforested . |
| 28 | Then there was Whistler , who strode doggedly on in a frayed tweed overcoat , summer and winter , always with his head down as if he were in the teeth of a gale , shrilly whistling — in perfect tune — a repertoire which extended from old music hall to Elgar . |
| 29 | The HN Unit Specifications were in the colleges by August 1989 . |
| 30 | A further 11 are listed as serving soldiers or seamen ( some of the other bridegrooms were in the services at the time of marriage , but since their civilian occupations were also recorded they have been classified differently ) . |