Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the comrades were prepared for everything the class enemy could throw at them . |
| 2 | In Fig. 9.4 the original floodplain of the river is represented by the terrace A , while , after one rejuvenation , a second terrace B was formed into which the river is again cutting down to form a third terrace C. Each terrace disappears upstream at the point to which the head of rejuvenation has receded : this can be more readily appreciated from a section down the valley ( Fig. 9.5 ) . |
| 3 | An air traffic control clearance was issued in which the aircraft was cleared to the Goose VOR and maintain 6,000 feet . |
| 4 | 19–2 A meeting of the Water Committee was held at which the principal business was the handing over of money collected . |
| 5 | In 1987 , new air quality standards for particulates were introduced in which the total suspended particulate ( TSP ) standard ( which included particles as large as 100 um ) was replaced by the PM 10 standard ( particles less than 10 um in diameter ) since small particles are considered to pose a greater threat to health than large particles . |
| 6 | His retirement years were marked by what the Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 20 described as " a consistent championship of causes " . |
| 7 | S/L Paul Millikin was pressed for what the future held for the aircraft , to one question he replied ‘ I do n't know if there is talk from Whitehall … nobody tells me anything ! ’ |
| 8 | Of particular importance to the subject of this paper , they emphasize in their summary that the client in the studies reviewed ‘ is engaged as a voluntary collaborator ’ , and his ‘ motivations were directed toward what the social workers were attempting to provide ’ . |
| 9 | The comparison that I made in The Independent newspaper was based on what the Secretary of State 's own review had recommended as the number required to run the system . |
| 10 | Five double stranded DNA fragments with four base long 5'-protruding ends were designed in which the GGGCCC and the AAAAA motifs were separated by varying number of nucleotides ( Fig. 5 ) . |
| 11 | Terms were arranged on which the petition might be withdrawn upon payment of £3,000 . |
| 12 | Long political screeds were attached about what the paper should be like , pleading justifications of position and talent . |
| 13 | Enlightenment was urged on me the day I saw the old Jew float to the surface of the deep latrine , how he splashed and struggled into life , and was hoisted out by the jubilant guards , his clothes cleansed by the mire . |
| 14 | Suddenly a mechanism was provided by which the brain ( which may or may not be considered in some way related to the mind ) could intrude on the elementary processes of message reception and transmission . |
| 15 | But when the door was locked behind me the cell was dark for there was neither window nor electric light . |
| 16 | It has not happened since the end of the Second World War , but before the 1987 election , when some commentators were predicting a hung parliament , much thought was given to what the Queen would do about forming a government if they turned out to be right . |
| 17 | Concern was expressed at what the effect would be when attaching a means-tested service to a free one . |
| 18 | Or , in mystic vein , an order of being was glimpsed in which the 1840s , the 1860s , nihilism , Bazarov , found themselves apocalyptically and teleologically disposed — those two polysyllabic adverbs embracing and transcended all nature , including futurity . |
| 19 | Cos you remember last week we accounted for er He was in the world , and although the world was made through him the world did not recognize him . |
| 20 | Three logistic regressions were conducted in which the oesophageal mucosal status was a dichotomous criterion variable . |
| 21 | At noon on Sunday 18 November 1883 , all the public clocks in North America were changed to what the New York Herald called ‘ the new standard of time agreed upon … as an obvious convenience in all social and business matters ’ . |
| 22 | More than 1,000 others were murdered with what the FBI calls ‘ personal weapons ’ ; ie , hands , feet , fists . |
| 23 | In the case of ordering YAC probes , a modified distance measure was used in which the influence of each cosmid clone c was weighted in proportion to 1/n c , where n c is the number of YAC probes positive for that cosmid clone . |
| 24 | Evidence from Brean Down , Somerset , is not so clear , but there were drastic changes , and evidence of demolition was followed by what the excavator , A. M. ApSimon , depicts as ‘ squatter occupation ’ . |
| 25 | Her heart was touched by what the duchess had offered her and by what had been asked of herself in return . |
| 26 | Griffiths , for example , wanted decisive central government action to ensure that clear objectives and priorities were set , but no such central direction was contained in Caring for People and no mechanisms were devised by which the government could ensure that local planning and implementation were consistent with national priorities ; indeed , no such priorities were set . |
| 27 | But good old butter was replaced by what the label described as ‘ vegetable and animal fat ’ . |