Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all I could remember and all the the only thing I can remember about that was running after the car with . |
| 2 | His plan for that was to go into the restaurant car park and allow enough time for the other car to clear the fuel service area , then fill his own tank and give chase . |
| 3 | Annual discharges with the diagnosis of pancreatitis ( ICD Code 577 ) during 1970–89 were obtained from the statistics of the Finnish National Agency for Welfare and Health . |
| 4 | The original enquiries about this were directed to the County Surveyor 's Department , but I now understand that the work on the boundary sign was done on behalf of the County Planning Department . |
| 5 | The only doubt about this was raised by the Court of Appeal in Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 where the court specifically left open the question whether additional protection should be afforded to an employer where the former employee is not seeking to earn his living by making use of the body of skill , knowledge and experience which he has acquired but is merely selling the knowledge to a third party ( see p79 above ) . |
| 6 | Following emergency measures announced in July [ see p. 39025 ] , a drastic budget for 1993 was approved by the Council of Ministers on Sept. 30 after an all-night session . |
| 7 | Deaconess Tilley 's notions of the food proper for entertaining was formed from the needs of large families on small incomes crossed with Church ‘ does ’ of various kinds . |
| 8 | An imposing entrance for this was built at the end of Kirby Road , and the inspection pits were only half the length of the depot to facilitate displays . |
| 9 | In the early 1980s the process went one stage further with the Bank buying commercial bills as a means of providing assistance in the money market ; the need for this was exacerbated by the policy of overfunding the PSBR to reduce broad money growth . |
| 10 | Statutory provision for this was made in the Social Work ( Scotland ) Act 1968 . |
| 11 | Time and time again the need for this was stressed by the audience focus groups : ‘ explain things to us ’ we were told . |
| 12 | Support for this was centred around the strongly " pro-whaling " nations of Norway , Iceland and Japan . |
| 13 | Some interesting reasons for this were suggested in The Observer in 1986 . |
| 14 | The reasons for this were linked to the financial relationship between central and local government . |
| 15 | In the mid-1940s , explanations for this were offered in the form of theories which presented anatomical features as the cause of the blacks ' advantages . |
| 16 | The road after that was pinched between the river Stour and the bluff on which Richborough Castle stood . |
| 17 | No one after that was allowed past the office . |
| 18 | Forensic science had no answer to the question of what happened to the timer after it was supplied to the Libyans by the Swiss , any more than it could say with certainty what happened to the Semtex plastic explosive after that was supplied to the Libyans by the Czechs . |
| 19 | These after all were stated in the original RAWP 's terms of reference and remain as valid now as they were in 1975 . |
| 20 | The mothers of 56 of the 71 children diagnosed during 1972–89 were living in the study area at the time of their child 's birth . |
| 21 | The other Nobel prizes for 1991 were announced by the relevant Swedish academies between Oct. 3 and Oct. 16 : ( i ) Literature — Nadine Gordimer , the South African novelist whose " magnificent epic writing " had as its central theme the consequences of apartheid ; ( ii ) Medicine — Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann , German scientists working on the function of single ion channels in cell physiology ; ( iii ) Economics — Ronald Coase , the veteran UK-born member of the Chicago school and theorist of transaction costs and property rights , relevant to how buyers and sellers are brought together in the free market ; ( iv ) Physics — Pierre-Gilles de Gennes , the French scientist , for his work on applying the study of order and behavioural similarities in molecules to a range of complex materials ; and ( v ) Chemistry — Richard R. Ernst , the Swiss researcher , for contributions to high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance ( NMR ) spectroscopy . |
| 22 | However Nay 's radiant picture ‘ Woman and Ram ’ of 1948 was purchased after the sale for DM130,000 net ( £52,000 ; $83,200 ) . |
| 23 | Northern blot analysis of RNA extracted from a variety of cell , organ and other tissue types confirmed that expression of Oct-11 was restricted to the myeloma cell line P3/NS-1/1-Ag4.1 ( Figure 5 ) . |
| 24 | The more power in Europe lay in the hands of a few strong States , the more a State system emerged in which the position of each was established through the recognition of the others . |
| 25 | The moods and emotions of each were expressed in the first three movements . |
| 26 | A total of seven points out of eight were lost to the Tayside club last season and Aberdeen 's only point from United this term came at Tannadice in December after they had held , and then surrendered , a two-goal lead . |
| 27 | Finally , the punitive powers of the ‘ Kleisthenic ’ council of 500 were defined for the first time . |
| 28 | The Council of 500 was drawn from the demes in proportion to their population ( see p. 112 ) and it is now known ( for instance ) that in the time of Kleisthenes no more than one-quarter of known Athenians can be attributed to city demes . |
| 29 | ‘ Reverting to the decision at first instance in the Leighton case , the report of the argument shows that the provisions of section 82(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1925 were drawn to the attention of Luxmoore J. We feel no doubt that he would have appreciated that , even in the absence of a successful plea of forgery or non est factum , the section would in terms have conferred a discretion on the court to rectify the charges register , even as against the innocent chargees . |
| 30 | I mean when you think of erm the way that , say , Mrs. Currie has been portrayed , Mrs. Thatcher indeed , I think an awful lot of that was filtered through the eyes of the press . |