Example sentences of "they were the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In America the distances to be covered were so large that they were the major obstacle to effective operations . |
| 2 | I saw a whole border of them in Germany , but they were the only plants without a name tag ! |
| 3 | They were the only ones with glass windows and metal roofs . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought they were the only party that could rule Namibia . |
| 5 | They were the only people who 'd been in his room except for his Dad last night . |
| 6 | The Armenians were lucky , for they were the only people this century to flee to rather than from Lebanon for comfort and protection . |
| 7 | I did all those movies because they were the only work I could get , ’ Nicholson said in a frank assessment of his next few years of acting roles on the fringes of Hollywood , appearing almost entirely in low-cost , quickly made horror films , and what were then called teenage exploitation pictures , mostly with Roger Corman . |
| 8 | He had bought them when he arrived in the city , and they were the only shoes he owned . |
| 9 | Although the three powers we have just outlined were the principal measures available to the police to prevent or to control public assemblies , it would be a mistake to think that they were the only ones . |
| 10 | Even when we signed to RCA , they were the only company to actually make an offer to sign the band , although there were one or two others flirting with the idea . ’ |
| 11 | At first they operated alongside their toastrack predecessors , but in post-war years they were the only open cars in operation . |
| 12 | They were the only words ever spoken to me as a player that could remotely be termed coaching … nobody realized that a young player needed reassurance . ’ |
| 13 | They were the only sure support , the one true comfort . |
| 14 | ‘ We all know , ’ he said in a lowered voice , ‘ that it was the O'Malleys who burnt out Con Gallagher that night , for they were the only ones who had somethin' to gain . |
| 15 | One weekend he bought two postcards of the Adam 's Creek power station at night ( they were the only postcards there were ) and sat down at his rickety table by the window with a pen . |
| 16 | With a shock it was brought home to Annie Oaks that they were the only family Lydia and Tobias had ever known , coming to Aumery Park Farm from the Union House as they had done at the ages of ten and twelve . |
| 17 | They were the only ones allowed through in the five weeks the children were away from home . |
| 18 | Romanians called pigs ' trotters ‘ patriots ’ because they were the only bits of the pig allowed to remain in the country . |
| 19 | They were the only survivors from the 36 aboard the MTB and ML 6 . |
| 20 | Their father told them that as they were the only people present in the deserted station , it was not possible to see or hear such things . |
| 21 | People often mention ‘ metal whiskers ’ as if they were the only kind but , as a matter of fact , metal whiskers are less common and less interesting than whiskers of non-metals and it is about these latter that we shall mostly talk . |
| 22 | Until recently , many of those women who experience a light vaginal discharge at certain times between their periods may have thought that they were the only ones to have this problem . |
| 23 | There were five of them at one table and they were the only ones still outside . |
| 24 | They were the only source of direct involvement for the rank and file as the channel through which they expressed their demands and discontent . |
| 25 | They looked at psychological processes simply because they were the only way of monitoring what the brain might be doing . |
| 26 | They were the only pupils at Silfield school whose parents were divorced . |
| 27 | Miners , for example , maintained large families , 3.6 children in 1911 , despite the rapid general reduction in birthrate , and in the early twentieth century they were the only large category of workers whose families averaged over 3 . |
| 28 | They were the only words Alexei understood until he reached Milan . |
| 29 | They were the only people with the nerve to wear it , but in the early sixties the climate of opinion was changing , the Mods were wearing the more effeminate and colourful clothes of Carnaby Street . |
| 30 | Enclosed was the typeset sample , they were the only bureau to quote the actual resolution used ( 2,540 on a Linotronic 300 ) and returned both our laser sample and the disk . |