Example sentences of "were [det] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a higher output than would be preferred if the only constraint were that shown by the budget line 12 ( i.e. output X* ) . |
| 2 | A biting , end-to-end wind did not assist the enjoyment of the night for players or spectators , and goals from both sides were each scored in the dying moments of the halves . |
| 3 | At the same time two of the nine popularly elected representatives , Akilisi Pohive ( leader of the dissident pro-democracy movement ) and Viliami Fukofuka , were each reported by the Times of Tonga to have returned about 12,000 pa'anga to the Treasury on the grounds that overtime payment for members of the Assembly was immoral and increased the financial burden on the people . |
| 4 | Six side chapels were each dedicated to the Virgin Mary in relation to the Civil War : Our Lady of Africa ; the Immaculate Conception , patroness of the Army ; Our Lady of Carmen , patroness of the Navy ; Our Lady of Loretto , patroness of the Air Force ; Our Lady of the Pillar , patroness of Zaragoza and declared Captain-General of the Army during the war ; and Our Lady of Mercy , patroness of Prisoners . |
| 5 | But they both had shields against which the lances struck , and the beauty of it was that on her shield was the insignia of the sun , on his that of the moon ; so they were each protected by the principle they opposed . |
| 6 | Lukas , now eight , and Léonore ( right ) , now three , were each introduced to the forest when about six weeks old . |
| 7 | seven works of art or architecture which were each held by the ancient world to be supreme in their own way : 1 . |
| 8 | There were more Goblin tribes still loyal or too afraid to desert , but even they were few compared to the great days of conquest . |
| 9 | When we arrived at Papillote , which had advertised itself as being ‘ in the rainforest ’ , we found that its flimsy buildings were half engulfed by the surrounding forest . |
| 10 | In neither country were these created in the larger urban areas , but in the principality this only meant a few heavily populated areas in south Wales . |
| 11 | They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in foreign tongues as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech . |
| 12 | He may have shared in the Puritan tendency of Cranbrook ; his published works were all printed for the London theological bookseller , Philemon Stephens , and produced in the early 1650s , at a time when publication in both the learned languages and the vernacular greatly increased . |
| 13 | They were all slumped in the shade of the vehicles , blurred by patches of cigarette smoke . |
| 14 | ‘ They were all looking round the screen saying they had not seen the bum of anyone famous before , ’ he recalls . |
| 15 | The ten rooms were all situated on the first floor . |
| 16 | They were all situated on the dock and the is now what they call the |
| 17 | Bobby Davison , Phil Gee and David Oldfield were all denied by the Wolves woodwork . |
| 18 | The Labour Party in parliament , most Liberals and , of course , the Left were all opposed to the basic principles behind the government 's policy . |
| 19 | The patients were all detained under the Mental Health Act , required urgent surgery or invasive investigation , and were , in the opinion of the surgical team , unable to give informed consent . |
| 20 | And they were all haemorrhaging at the back . |
| 21 | Marcus and the woman were all entwined on the settee . |
| 22 | Even though it was against Danzig law , these people were all sent to the Reich , presumably to concentration camps . |
| 23 | So we were all herded in the common room together . |
| 24 | When we did The Taming of the Shrew , every time Petruchio yelled — and he had a fine voice — all the peacocks answered , and on the opening night I could feel my neighbour shaking with laughter because the peacocks were all jostling for the best places to roost in the trees . |
| 25 | In some way we were all affected by the impact of the Food Safety Act 1990 and the amendments to food hygiene regulations . |
| 26 | Rachel Rowe ; Emma George ; Mary Titford — who were all baptised on the Sabbath morning , June 10 , and admitted in the afternoon . |
| 27 | They were all written for The Lord of the Rings alone . |
| 28 | I was petrified because all my sheets and tableclothes and all my cutlery and silver were all stamped with the Embassy crest . |
| 29 | The vertical and the horizontal structures of Germany were locked into a system of finance , into a particular sense of ‘ Kultur ’ and the drive to expand eastwards , that were all connected with the development of industry and the logic of capitalist modes of production . |
| 30 | Borneo , Java and Sumatra were all connected to the mainland by what is known as the Sunda Shelf , just as Australia and New Guinea were joined by the Sahul Shelf . |