Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That coins were minted in the names of bishops and churches is clear , but it is not certain that they mark an encroachment into a royal preserve . |
| 2 | Only environmentally friendly products were used by the students . |
| 3 | Despite the absence of Giggs , whose precocious talents were required by the senior side in their 1–0 Rumbelows Cup victory at Wembley on Sunday , the visitors confirmed their pre-match billing as favourites and demonstrated their ominous strength in depth . |
| 4 | The honourable draw had to wait till Old Trafford , although over eleven hours were lost to the weather . |
| 5 | However , low turnouts were reported in the predominantly Russian Vilnius suburb of Novaya Vilnya , and in the predominantly Polish rural district of Salcininkai . |
| 6 | The parasite was originally described in 1907 but the first human case was not recognised until 1976 and only eight cases were described in the literature before 1982 . |
| 7 | In relation to this , a number of cohesive chains were identified in the analysis , the most significant of which are the progressions of phrases relating to the cabinet ministers and the soldiers . |
| 8 | Women 's sanitary protection last came under scrutiny with the Toxic Shock Syndrome , a disease where 2,200 cases were reported in the United States up to June 1983 proving fatal in 5% of instances between 1976 and 1982 . |
| 9 | Fifty cases were adopted by the unit in 1986/7 from bureaux who needed additional assistance . |
| 10 | The impossibility of guaranteeing adherence to parental wishes was acknowledged by the government in the provisions of the 1980 Education Act . |
| 11 | But also one can see families in these situations creating maximum flexibility by using some members for household-based production and some for different types of waged work in what Wall calls the adaptive family economy : ‘ their economic activities were diversified against the prospect of bad times and to make the most of the good ’ ( 1986 , p. 294 ) . |
| 12 | The San Salvador Central Market occupation lasted for 12 days , from 11 to 23 December 1979 , and a number of hostages from among the administrative personnel were held in the offices . |
| 13 | Prior to land reform most agricultural taxes were levied to the land itself , assessment per unit of land being graduated according to the quality of land proportional to output . |
| 14 | And itself has been a victim of that poor quality when private contracts were employed in the domestic service . |
| 15 | Although , the Ministry of Correctional Services claimed that all political prisoners had been released , at least three acknowledged political prisoners were freed in the days following the launch of the campaign . |
| 16 | The Football League was a kind of non-pro fit-making cartel in which the power of the largest clubs was limited by the smallest . |
| 17 | Profitable exports were handled through the port of Berwick-upon-Tweed until , in the middle of the fifteenth century , the kings themselves saw the advantages of taking over pastures for their own flocks , storing the wool at Selkirk and then shipping it out via Leith . |
| 18 | There were five of these sites and in the tot in total nine hundred and twenty eight operations were performed over the five sites . |
| 19 | Massive and beautifully-designed trophies were awarded to the top three men and women as the personal gifts given by the king , the princes and the princesses respectively . |
| 20 | Straight , intact crypts were divided at the junction of the upper one third and lower two thirds under a dissecting microscope , as follows . |
| 21 | The taking of booty from conquered cities was called by the Romans deditio ( surrender ) , a process in which captured weapons , money , works of art or other valuables were dedicated to the gods at Rome , thereby giving divine sanction to the imposition of Roman rule . |
| 22 | Initially , lizards with intact tails were paired in the laboratory in order to determine dominance relationships . |
| 23 | Over 75 organizations were represented at the meeting in Durban , including the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) and the Labour Party , which held the majority of seats in the House of Representatives ( the chamber for Coloured people in the tricameral parliament — see p. 36880 for 1989 election ) . |
| 24 | There was a murmur of assent and the wise , strange heads were dipped in the gesture of acknowledgement they had used earlier and the Tree Spirits moved away , not quite fading into the gloom of the forest , but somehow becoming one with it . |
| 25 | All hand written domiciliary prescriptions were transferred to the computer and recorded in the study . |
| 26 | Furthermore , the ranks of that clergy were drawn from the common people themselves . |
| 27 | After this riot , which involved 100,000 people , political processions were banned in the Metropolitan Police area for six months . |
| 28 | At the final curtain , Asshe took his daughter s hand and led her forward ; the hazel eyes were fixed on the gallery , and did not perceive Paul . |
| 29 | However , no finds of this type are known from Chedworth , although a number of agricultural implements were found in the excavations , including a plough-tip ; some other tools such as the spade-iron and mattock could have been used for gardening . |
| 30 | A separate multivariate analysis of diabetics was not reported but , using standardised logistic regression coefficients for incidence of coronary heart disease , strong relationships were demonstrated in the whole group , as shown in Table 4.3 . |