Example sentences of "were the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among those the delegates met were the Adviser to the President on International Affairs , the Secretary to the Ministry of Defence , the Inspector General of Police , and the Commissioner General of Rehabilitation . |
| 2 | To me this is odd as if I were the president of South Korea I would have imprisoned Kim Hyun-hui and released Im Su Kyong as to me Kim Hyun-hui committed the more serious crime . |
| 3 | Old-fashioned amateurs used to admire colours with a golden glow , which conservators have demonstrated were the effect of discoloured varnish . |
| 4 | Were the other passengers all sober ? |
| 5 | The Special Squads were the Nazis ' ‘ most demonic crime ’ , representing ‘ an attempt to shift on to others — specifically the victims — the burden of guilt , so that they were deprived even of the solace of innocence ’ . |
| 6 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 7 | I think the persons who helped me most were the professional actors who were playing in the West End and came to us as teachers during the day . |
| 8 | It was said of An Ideal Husband that the characters of Lord Goring , Lord Caversham and Mrs Chevely were the work of Oscar Wilde and Sir Robert and Lady Chiltern of Fingal O'Flaherty . |
| 9 | They were the result of catholic — nationalist success in establishing a separate state , so separate that the protestant tradition as a political force had been excised from the thinking of the entire catholic grouping in the South , from church to state to popular consciousness . |
| 10 | Then there were the republican parties who focused their attention on Westminster elections . |
| 11 | For centuries the Roman catholic church and faith were the bread of life to the subordinate classes in Ireland , deprived of their land , civil rights , and education . |
| 12 | The clergy were the only source of education apart from the ‘ hedge school ’ teachers ( Dowling 1968 ) and provided a significant moral and organizational resource . |
| 13 | However , it was not simply a strategy , but embodied a particular ideology : the belief that the bishops were the church above all , and that they , not the laity , were the ones to communicate with the state . |
| 14 | However , it was not simply a strategy , but embodied a particular ideology : the belief that the bishops were the church above all , and that they , not the laity , were the ones to communicate with the state . |
| 15 | On the one hand there were the beliefs in the nature and extent of the clergy 's political religious power and how that power was to be exercised in the state . |
| 16 | Other public bodies who actively campaigned on behalf of the constitutional amendment were the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties . |
| 17 | In other words , support for the education policies of the church were the quid the Irish party had to give in order to obtain the quo of the bishops ' endorsement of the party as the genuine political representatives of the Irish people or nation . |
| 18 | Two major exceptions to the general divide were the secondary schools in Fivemiletown and Ballycastle , where shortage of catholic equivalents resulted in de facto integration . |
| 19 | Even then , this was the sector of vocational or technical schools , which were the schools of the politically and economically less influential classes . |
| 20 | These were not able to afford education or were unable to pass the necessary scholarship or entrance exams , or they were the sons and daughters of artisans seeking similar type craft training for their offspring . |
| 21 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 22 | Red as the clouds which flush beneath the sun 's slant rays , says Ovid , red as the rosy Dawn , were the cheeks of Diana as she stood there in view without her robes . |
| 23 | The national keg brands were the result of a wave of takeovers and mergers in the 1960s and early 1970s that created ‘ the Big Six ’ combines — Bass , Allied , Watney/Grand Met , Whitbread , Courage and Scottish & Newcastle . |
| 24 | The lotus leaf needed to line the bamboo steamer for the Szechwan dish of steamed beef and rice flour was examined with interest , as were the ingredients used to make the rice flour — short grain rice , cinnamon bark , star anise and ‘ special ’ wild pepper — which were then sautéed dry for 15 minutes and ground into a semolina-type texture after the removal of the bark and anise . |
| 25 | Being married and having young children , the range of chef 's hours available within contract catering was , of course , attractive ; but the main incentives were the obvious routes by which I could move upwards on joining High Table . ’ |
| 26 | Trust Claire to act as if she were the centre of attention . |
| 27 | These were the years of the anti-fascist movement , the Japanese attack on Britain 's Asian empire , the British retreat and the Bengal famine during which two million people died . |
| 28 | ‘ Our boys ’ were being nurtured in the belief that they were the leaders of tomorrow , the ‘ happy few ’ who would one day be running whatever had now taken the place of the Empire . |
| 29 | The weather was overcast but the chances were the rain would hold off . |
| 30 | Where were the cars going to park ? |