Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , land inside the older towns was acquiring a scarcity value , above all in the towns that were surrounded by open fields , so that they could not grow outwards ( see Chapter 9 ) , and a steady rise in the price of land for building was added to the rise in the price of borrowed money . |
| 2 | The passing of the Midwives Act owed more to pre-war pressures and commitments than to post-war Conservative policy , although its passage through Parliament was assisted by the revelations during wartime or the poor physical condition of many of the working SDF and the COS had provided free or subsidized meals for needy schoolchildren . |
| 3 | Differences between groups were evaluated by the log-rank test . |
| 4 | Differences between groups were calculated with the two tailed Student 's t test ; p<0.05 was considered significant . |
| 5 | Comparisons between groups were performed with the Wilcoxon test for unpaired data and the Fisher test . |
| 6 | Statistical differences between groups were estimated with the Mann-Whitney U test and correlation coefficients calculated with the Spearman rank test for non-parametric data . |
| 7 | The statistical significance of differences between groups was assessed by the Mann-Whitney U test . |
| 8 | A potential difficulty for solicitors was highlighted by the case of Hudgell Yeates & Co v Watson [ 1978 ] QB 451 when solicitors attempted to recover their costs from a client by action . |
| 9 | The proposals for provinces were referred to the newly established Royal Commission on the Constitution , while the proposals for local councils were thought to add too much extra work to the already formidable task of local government reorganisation . |
| 10 | ( 2 ) Where the Council has within three months beginning with the date when an application for recognition was received by the Council neither granted nor refused recognition , an appeal to the Master of the Rolls may be brought under paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Act as if the application had been refused by the Council . |
| 11 | Unlike in the private sector , borrowing for investment was treated in the same way as borrowing to finance current spending ( on labour or raw materials ) . |
| 12 | It is ringed by villages known as the ‘ seven towns ’ , which for centuries were sustained by the rights of common they enjoyed upon Otmoor 's lush pastures . |
| 13 | The Soviet-DRA rejection of neutrality for Afghanistan was confirmed by the Afghan leader Babrak Karmal in an appearance on Afghan television on 21 March . |
| 14 | Chain began working in the summer of 1938 on penicillin and pyocyanase , though by January 1939 , when an application for funds was made to the Medical Research Council , penicillin and ‘ actinomycetin ’ , an antibiotic which Waksman was studying , were mentioned . |
| 15 | The relationships between variables were evaluated by the simple correlation coefficient and a multiple regression analysis . |
| 16 | The very high level of demand for labour was maintained throughout the late sixties and early seventies by the trend of capital accumulation . |
| 17 | A changeover switch for conduit/overhead was fixed under the stairs at each end of the car . |
| 18 | Paired data for laser energy per month required and for frequency of endoscopic treatment before and after radiotherapy were analysed with the Wilcoxon signed rank test . |
| 19 | All specimens were assayed in at least two dilutions and samples taken before and after eradication were assayed within the same batch . |
| 20 | The morphometric parameters of the jejunal biopsy specimens before and after challenge were analysed by the discriminant function analysis . |
| 21 | Picasso 's work was first seen in Germany in 1909 at the Thannhauser Gallery in Munich , and paintings by many of the other painters subsequently known as Cubists were shown at the second exhibition of the Neue Künstlervereinigung in Munich in 1910 . |
| 22 | Two leading State Department officials took part in a radio broadcast on Korea aimed at engendering public debate before a large appropriation for Korea was included in the War Department 's next vote . |
| 23 | The arrangements for auditing were reorganized by the Local Government Finance Act 1982 and the Audit Commission it established was given powers to undertake ‘ value for money ’ studies designed to help the efficiency of local authorities . |
| 24 | Fife 's application for assistance was based on the need to reduce dependence on the defence sector and increase the level of product development within the manufacturing sector . |
| 25 | In 1990 , standard-setting for companies was changed by the establishment of the Financial Reporting Council , the Accounting Standards Board and the Review Panel . |
| 26 | In the 15 sign languages analysed , the following signs were found for LAUGH , HELP and ( tell a ) LIE , In all 15 sign languages , the sign for LAUGH was located at the mouth or lower cheek ; the hand was either held with index finger extended , or index and thumb extended and moved from side to side . |
| 27 | Events in Afghanistan during May were dominated by the efforts of the various ethnic , military and religious factions to secure positions of power in the new regime , following the overthrow of the Najibullah government by mujaheddin guerrillas and the establishment of an Islamic State in April [ see pp. 38847-48 ] . |
| 28 | The bid for Rowntree was set in the context of a shift in consumer preference away from ‘ slab ’ bars of chocolate towards ‘ countline ’ products ( individually wrapped chocolate snacks ) — an area in which Rowntree had great strength . |
| 29 | Therefore there was a lack of clear guidance on land use in Scotland until the Countryside Commission for Scotland was established under the Countryside ( Scotland ) Act 1967 . |
| 30 | The adjustment of population through migration was prompted by the existence of higher unemployment levels in northern Britain throughout the period since 1921 ; these peaked in the year 1932 , when over 2,750,000 people were unemployed . |