Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | An air traffic control clearance was issued in which the aircraft was cleared to the Goose VOR and maintain 6,000 feet . |
| 3 | 19–2 A meeting of the Water Committee was held at which the principal business was the handing over of money collected . |
| 4 | 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 ! ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But when the door was locked behind me the cell was dark for there was neither window nor electric light . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Concern was expressed at what the effect would be when attaching a means-tested service to a free one . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The instructions which Mr. Tucker gave to the Burnham sub-branch made it clear that the bank was retaining for itself the responsibility of explaining to Mrs. O'Brien the effect and nature of the documents she was to sign . |
| 14 | Sutton was looking at what the public bought today . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | But Sarah and Mary were growing old ; by May 1855 Badcox Lane Chapel was taking upon itself the responsibility of arranging home visits to Mary , who was sick with diarrhoea , and were paying 1s. per month to help her out . |
| 18 | Her heart was touched by what the duchess had offered her and by what had been asked of herself in return . |
| 19 | But good old butter was replaced by what the label described as ‘ vegetable and animal fat ’ . |