Example sentences of "were [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were about the same size and thickness as credit cards . |
| 2 | I suppose he and Sam were about the same age , 15 or 16 . |
| 3 | The two men were about the same age , nearing fifty ; both were of the lean kind with strong features and over-thin lips ; both were taciturn and found it difficult to put ideas into words . |
| 4 | They were about the same age , but the embalmer seemed older . |
| 5 | All these disputes were about the same theme : the nature of the Europe that the Six wished to construct and the proper relationship between the Community and the member states . |
| 6 | The guerrillas were helped , however , by an educated native who discovered that Bernard Callinan was a Roman Catholic and was persuaded that others in the Company were of the same faith . |
| 7 | The floors were of the same wood , some bare , some covered in linoleum , and everything appeared in a state of decay . |
| 8 | In patients with MEN 1 diffuse and linear hyperplasia were of the same order ( 53% and 47% ) . |
| 9 | Writers and the books they produced were of the same type , full of antiquarian information and the archaic vocabulary that went with it . |
| 10 | We came to think that the two features were of the same date , as there was no construction trench cut into the rampart front for the insertion of the wall . |
| 11 | If every company conducted the same business , were of the same size , even had the same plans for expansion — then perhaps it would be safe to assume that their asset financing requirements , too , would be the same . |
| 12 | Three of these were of the same size as those in the front compartment : the other three were no more than five feet in length . |
| 13 | The houses here were of the same structure as the mean buildings where Hari lived but the properties were well maintained , the outsides freshly painted , the windows gleaming with cleanliness and hung with rich drapes . |
| 14 | To achieve it he had to work on individuals , exploiting relationships which were not open , public ones : he could not have called a meeting to appeal to everyone 's obligations as a relative by descent and by marriage , as if these were of the same kind as those of a citizen , an Arab or a Muslim . |
| 15 | He trusted Marian and Allen because they were of the same kind as himself — children . |
| 16 | Blacks , musicians and Jews , all victims of an oppressive society , were of the same family of misfortunates as himself . |
| 17 | Frank had accused me before of ‘ messing up ’ the relay , and had told me that the rest of the team were of the same opinion . |
| 18 | Although for the reasons stated they have thought it inappropriate to discuss in detail the reasoning of the Court of Appeal , their conclusion on this question of procedure is fortified by the fact that all four judges in the local courts were of the same opinion . |
| 19 | It took Rosemary about a minute to answer the door , but , as all the flats in the building were of the same layout , Leith 's ‘ Ready ? ’ query never got said . |
| 20 | A number were of the same place , some old village with nobody in it , the first a shot down a dusty road and the rest of individual buildings or , in some cases , of open fields enclosed by split-rail fencing . |
| 21 | Peter Wood , the director , and H.M. Tennent , the producers , were of the same mind . |
| 22 | Erm I took the nine year old boat out and just went out in a boat we had Mary went as well , we were like the all job for mackerel put this guy 's |
| 23 | But more often than not , whenever they were under the same roof together , he shared her bed and , now that her initial awkwardness had abated — for she had never seen a naked human being of either sex before and had always been discouraged from looking too closely at herself — he made love to her with a straightforward vigour she found attractive . |
| 24 | The same holds true about the plasma concentrations which , although they were determined by a new ELISA , were within the same range ( 70–350 ng/mL ) in responsive patients from Cameroon and the Congo as in non-responsive patients from the Congo . |
| 25 | We were in the same hotel . |
| 26 | In 14 of the 21 , morning and evening papers were in the same ownership , and some of these were themselves in national or regional chains . |
| 27 | The activities of the chains , however , meant that only a third of the mornings still published in 1988 were in the same ownership as in 1945 . |
| 28 | In the local Nag 's Head pub , Tony recounts his musical history with laddish brazenness , explaining how the four elements of East 17 ( including singing dancer Brian Harvey , dancing keyboardist John Hendry and rapping dancer Terry Coldwell ) were in the same gang , spending their schooldays bodypopping and bunking off , and generally going f— nowhere . |
| 29 | Suppose two electrons were in the same state , let us say both " here " . |
| 30 | ‘ You see , ’ he went on as though they had been talking all afternoon , ‘ I had no idea until this morning that you were in the same state as I. ’ |