Example sentences of "were [adv] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally , the solutions to the problems were rarely of the government 's devising . |
| 2 | Since the lawmakers were mostly of the creditor class , their attitude was to retain a statute by which they could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtor and his detention at their will . |
| 3 | The driver 's morals were obviously of the same low standard as his/her driving , as no apology or name and address was left . |
| 4 | Most of the Balkan Jews were of Iberian origin and were thus of the Sephardic branch of Jewry . |
| 5 | Hard solders , on the other hand , were usually of the same metal as the object they were used on , but alloyed with a few per cent of another metal in order to reduce the melting point . |
| 6 | It must have been distasteful for a man whose principles were always of the very highest . |
| 7 | Er notwithstanding having said that , er we were always of the opinion in the shop stewards ' committee that if a man left , we would then go after the employer to re-engage someone else you know , or engage someone er in his place . |
| 8 | The smooths bore little resemblance to the early skins , although they were clearly of the same descent . |
| 9 | The Jersey 's ancestors were probably of the Celtic type ( there is certainly a hint of a likeness with the dainty dairy Kerry of Ireland ) , coming to Europe from Asia and North Africa . |
| 10 | The firearms receipts were probably of the most use to him , and the guarantee cards all carried the purchaser 's signature , Ian P. Sampson in a leaning scrawl that should n't be too hard to imitate . |
| 11 | Yet the new role of emperor was held in control by Charles who used it for his own ends , which were often of the highest order and extended far beyond mere materialism . |
| 12 | In patients with MEN 1 associated Zollinger-Ellison sydrome , howeve , diffuse and linear cell hyperplasia were roughly of the same order ( 53% and 47% , respectively ) . |
| 13 | Helmets were frequently of the standard conical shape , fitted with a nasal strip . |
| 14 | Of these , two — Cobham and Stapledon — were strongly of the opinion that although the king could quash parliament 's judgement on the Despensers , annulment by parliament would be much more secure . |
| 15 | Indeed , I would go further and conclude that at least in relation to the last three payments the plaintiffs were not under a mistake of law but were strongly of the view that they were under no liability to pay . |
| 16 | Third , the justices were strongly of the opinion that to separate the children would be harmful to them . |
| 17 | Roads they were then of the Sidhe and of those who have dealings with the impalpable and the evanescent . |
| 18 | In the first place , his rehearsals were always scrupulously prepared ; in the second , he generally tried to ensure that the players themselves felt that they were ahead of the game . |
| 19 | For 12 years from 1962 he successfully fed Edgar Hoover at the FBI a mixture of tantalising bits of fact and rubbish , including false information about Russia 's space-rocket programme which led the Americans to think they were ahead of the Russians . |
| 20 | Now , the RD 's electronics is where things get a bit tricky , and probably where Gibson were ahead of the average bassist of the time . |
| 21 | Commercial people lagged behind , but they were ahead of the textile workers , the first working-class group to show strong limitation . |
| 22 | And eh , Simon got all the mud all and he said you know when I was young , we were ahead of the , but now we 're well behind |
| 23 | All this is not to say that the clergy lacked grievances generally against the king , but that they were neither of the kind to excite lay sympathy nor even sufficiently widespread or fundamental to unite the clergy themselves . |
| 24 | Even so a loose diplomatic understanding survived after a fashion , while British opinion polls in 1967 suggested that only about 25 per cent were firmly of the view that the government was too close to Washington . |
| 25 | His views were certainly of the left , but one of his houses , in Bentinck Street , was always full of pretty girls , which redressed the balance . |
| 26 | The first synthetic assembly glues were therefore of the ureaformaldehyde type which could h set with much weaker catalysts . |