Example sentences of "were [adv] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the more ethnically uniform Berlin the Jews were rather clearly the other nationality . |
| 2 | The firearm of the infantry soldier of World War I was the bolt-action rifle , and the rifles of all the armies were fundamentally much the same . |
| 3 | She and Ethel were halfway down the next flight of stairs when they were suddenly joined by Bryce . |
| 4 | Ooh great a , a lot of politic this is what I say they were , when I think of them I can remember them , even as , as a young girl and you know remember them they were all very , very er they were only just the average working woman er I do n't think , we had got , there again we 'd got an extremely good , they 'd got an extremely good secretary , a well-educated woman erm and er the whole family was involved and it was one of their family was went on to be an M P . |
| 5 | Their views were only approximately the same , and they differed over Christianity . |
| 6 | If this were so then the European Council could decide by a qualified majority when to start stage three . |
| 7 | ‘ They were just about the only times we set eyes on them , ’ she went on . |
| 8 | They were hardly yet the vast unbrokenly built-up areas of the twentieth century , though factory chimneys , often strung along river valleys , railway sidings , the monotony of discoloured brick and the pall of smoke which hung above them , gave them a certain coherence . |
| 9 | As there were up to sixteen different taxes , the more ignorant , who were usually also the poorest , were compelled to run to their more fortunate fellows for advice on how to calculate , time , and pay ( or avoid paying ) these complex dues . |
| 10 | In the Gaullist world-view , the best of times were always potentially the worst of times . |
| 11 | Portakabin , manufacturers of portable buildings , were once again the major sponsors of the event and the managing director Mr Patrick Shepherd and his wife Chris , were present along with other representatives from Portakabin . |
| 12 | After the first thirty years of operation of the NHS , however , there had been disappointingly little change ; in 1976 , the Court Report noted that the variations in regional provision of service were still much the same as they had been in 1948 when the NHS began . |
| 13 | To gain experience in practical work , they went on their own initiative to slaughterhouses or the knacker 's yard ; horses were still almost the only animals seen at the College . |
| 14 | Humans were clearly not the primeval enemy that led to the evolution of this unique backbone , so which deadly crusher was involved ? |
| 15 | Memory suggests that at Berwick Rangers v Alloa the weather ( perishing ) and the crowd ( 277 ) were both much the same as for that earlier multi-national misadventure . |
| 16 | This can be attributed to a number of factors : the increased availability of street heroin in Wirral during the early 1980s ; the periodic droughts of pot and speed at around about the same time ( some of the users suggested a direct relation between these phenomena ) ; the existence of large numbers of users initiated in the 1978–81 period who acted both as models to emulate and who were also probably the first dealers the new initiates came into contact with . |
| 17 | The ancient Greeks certainly aged their trees by counting rings and were probably not the first to do so . |
| 18 | They demonstrate the likelihood that carvers of hard stone , like quartzite , were probably not the same artisans who worked softer minerals like granite or granodiorite . |
| 19 | So you felt you were probably nearer the top line , than than the bottom line . |
| 20 | These were probably mainly the large employers selecting for technical jobs . |
| 21 | Some of his books were probably in that bonfire ; all of his Sagitta writings were later on the Nazi list of forbidden books . |
| 22 | There were now just the two of us left in the dining room . |
| 23 | But if they were then given a choice of several kinds of seeds they would show sudden switches in preference , even though the seeds were chemically much the same . |
| 24 | In fact the figures were almost exactly the same as for the May Steam Gala . |
| 25 | Marie Stopes 's books , Married Love and Wise Parenthood may have sold widely in the early 1920s but the main readers were almost certainly the middle class . |
| 26 | Further , we were almost certainly the first publishing operation set up from scratch to capitalise on the new technology . |
| 27 | For the evidence set out above suggests that the heads of the central figures , which still relate to a certain extent to the work of 1906 and which were almost certainly the first to be painted , were not executed until the Iberian stone heads came into Picasso 's possession in March 1907 . |
| 28 | A set of 255 of the logged searches — those which were almost certainly the first search in a session or which bore no apparent relationship to the Previous search — were repeated by the experimenters on EXP CTL and a third system ( OSTEM ) which did no stemming at all . |
| 29 | The mergers of the 1960s were almost certainly the biggest collective error ever made by American business ( and copied by British firms ) . |
| 30 | Results of a second test six months later were almost precisely the same , but Tetley feared that the success of the round bags depended only on a novelty value that would wear off . |