Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Zarathustra 's death his religion was taken up by the old priestly class known as the Magi and eventually became the faith of the Achaemenid dynasty . |
| 2 | He said a 130lb sheat-fish was hauled out of the Dnepr one time . |
| 3 | Her glance was drawn back to the bed again when , clearly befuddled , and with no idea how he came to be where he was , he slurred , ‘ How did I get here ? ’ |
| 4 | That nakedness was broken only by the slim white garter belt around her perfect waist and the pure silk stockings which encased her shapely legs . |
| 5 | A family planning association was set up by the Government in 1972 , and the Government 's First Five Year Plan proposed the promotion of several different types of birth control . |
| 6 | A typewriter was clacking disjointedly in the next room . |
| 7 | The Honourable Diana Spencer was born late on the afternoon of July 1,1961 , the third daughter of Viscount Althorp , then aged 37 , and Viscountess Althorp , 12 years his junior . |
| 8 | Cossins also filmed a sequence with Crawford on Wimbledon Common , shown behind the end titles , in which Frank Spencer was running away from the grounds where the course was being held , with the organizer chasing him . |
| 9 | In 1918 Lymn & Rambush was taken over by the Power-Gas Corporation of Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 10 | Well , United started in fine style as early as the twentieth second ; Martin Foyle was brought down on the edge of the penalty area and Paul Simpson 's free kick was headed away for a corner . |
| 11 | The stranger was led back through the empty trains to the car shed pits where he could gain access to the street . |
| 12 | The deal was clinched today between the new owners of Pergamon , and the National Union of Journalists . |
| 13 | Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute . |
| 14 | If a deal was hammered out with the banks , an accompanying rights issue to raise up to £400m from existing private shareholders was likely next spring . |
| 15 | The deal was welcomed enthusiastically by the City and the financial press . |
| 16 | At that time the tax that banks deducted from interest payments to depositors was passed on to the taxmen each quarter . |
| 17 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 18 | They remained in occupation until 16 October 1979 , immediately after the coup against Romero , when the factory warehouse was burnt down by the company and the women dislodged by armed members of the Treasury Police . |
| 19 | Mary of Guise was brought up in the charmed circles of the greatest French aristocracy . |
| 20 | The indifference of the electorate was blamed partly on the apathy produced by this being the fourth election in 18 months , by the confusing number of different party slates and by the lack of concrete proposal and programmes from the candidates . |
| 21 | Lewis a antiben was expressed uniformly throughout the colon . |
| 22 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 23 | A former 3rd Farnham scout was heading off with the Falklands-bound Navy task force as one of the mechanics servicing the Harrier jump-jets aboard HMS Hermes . |
| 24 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , Nuclear Electric was formed out of the old Central Electricity Generating Board and has remained a Government-owned project throughout . |
| 25 | It should have been a warning to me when I noticed that none of the other foreigners was going anywhere near the wicker-basket toboggans , each with two dapper attendants . |
| 26 | We live , write and speak today in a world of free and democratized languages ; the complex and multilevelled hierarchy of discourses , forms , images , styles that used to permeate the entire system of official language and official consciousness was swept away by the linguistic revolutions of the Renaissance … . |
| 27 | Posi then told me that a comm-call was coming in from the Famlio ship , but I told her to ignore it . |
| 28 | The courier was staring hard at the patch of carpet between his feet . |
| 29 | On Dec. 1 President Ramaswamy Venkataraman received assurances of " outside " support for a minority National Front government from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left Front parties ; the next day V. P. Singh was sworn in as the Prime Minister , in place of Rajiv Gandhi . |
| 30 | Kalyan Singh was sworn in as the new Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] . |