Example sentences of "were [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it came to childraising , although they were libertarian towards the baby , they seemed conservative towards Phoebe 's needs : demand feeding and endless devotion seemed to be required of her . |
| 2 | By now his eyes were used to the darkness but he could make out very little . |
| 3 | " The mills were hot and dusty , and we were used to the cold . |
| 4 | She had to cross the road again to get back to their apartment ; now that her eyes were used to the darkness it seemed as bright as day out of doors , and her blue cotton dress incandescent white . |
| 5 | And , such is trust , they went on seeing it after it had gone , for by now they were used to the constant and bewildering ebb and flow of Stevenson money . |
| 6 | They were used to the job . |
| 7 | The staff were used to the rigours of war … |
| 8 | The inhabitants were used to the smell , which mixed in nicely with the odours from Deller 's soap factory and the mingled scents from the river . |
| 9 | In winter the bare trees were florid with the purple and grey of pigeons , and in spring we buried dead baby sparrows under the soapsuds of fallen blossom . |
| 10 | Cronin and Macdonald were outstanding at the lineout , winning the ball almost at will , and the tourists also had a decided edge in the scrums . |
| 11 | Among the less experienced , youngsters like Serguei Molchanov , a prop , and the Georgian full-back Nougzar Dsagnidze were outstanding in the 1988 Students ' World Cup . |
| 12 | Compensation claims amounting to US$400,000,000 for property destroyed and looted during the invasion [ see p. 37706 ] were outstanding against the US government ; estimates of the number of civilians killed during the fighting varied from the official US figure of 220 civilian dead [ see p. 37181 ] through that of 320 ( with 3,000 wounded ) given by a human rights group , Physicians for Human Rights , to one as high as 4,000 dead . |
| 13 | In the Durham County veterans league championship Brian Howell , Derek Redfern , Dennis Hammond and Tom Horner were outstanding against the Bishop Auckland rink of T Walls , T Lambton , W Ogle and R Bedford . |
| 14 | Since at heart these men were friendly to the Slav cause , Allied propaganda claimed that those who were posted to the east were always stationed in the most exposed positions , and at the slightest sign of wavering , or what might be termed ‘ treason ’ , were shot at from the rear . |
| 15 | Were you quite , you were friendly with the maids then , was it like |
| 16 | Perhaps it was not I but the other riders who were hell-bent on the wrong route . |
| 17 | An increase in registrations for courses such as Presentation Skills , which were under-subscribed in the Autumn , was encouraging and suggested that staff were becoming more aware of the programme and that its reputation was growing . |
| 18 | Typhoid and cholera and , most common , tuberculosis were rampant throughout the population . |
| 19 | It was raining outside and the gusts of cold , damp air were refreshing after the stale smokiness of the room . |
| 20 | By the way , ’ added the WPC , ‘ I thought you were terrific at the conference yesterday . |
| 21 | He ruled that damages were due for the effects of surfactants but not for a small presence of phosphates . |
| 22 | I believe you were due for the afternoon off tomorrow . |
| 23 | Mr Mulcahy said Dixons ' claim that its results were due to the downturn in the electrical market was untrue . |
| 24 | The diabetics chosen for this study were free of clinical evidence of vascular disease , which suggests that the platelet abnormalities in this diabetic group were due to the diabetic state ( Jones et al , 1985 ) . |
| 25 | It has been suggested that the different findings in these studies were due to the different techniques applied to the collection of blood samples . |
| 26 | At this point it was obvious that there were some shortcomings in the manner of carrying out the analysis , but these were due to the research nature of the project and the consequent inexperience of the project team . |
| 27 | The achievements of the Dorset industry , which must have been under very astute management , were due to the presence of Poole Harbour , where the pottery must have been crated and shipped for its journey on the western route with its useful points of entry , the Bristol Channel , the Dee and Mersey , the Solway Firth and the Clyde . |
| 28 | The Governors wrote again , to say that they considered that the School 's present difficulties and deficit of £170 6 4d were due to the introduction of the previous Scheme ( by then only six years old ! ) and to the establishment of Higher Grade Schools in connection with Elementary Schools . |
| 29 | The three cases of misclassification of delirium were due to the time delay between the team and research assessments ; by the time of the second assessment , the delirium apparent at the first had substantially resolved to reveal an underlying depression or dementia , or both . |
| 30 | It should be noted , however , that an alternative hypothesis has been suggested for the formation of the Straits of Dover by Stamp ( 1927 ) , who thought that they were due to the southwards overflow of a proglacial lake ponded up in the southern North Sea by an ice front stretching from England to Holland . |