Example sentences of "[conj] was [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So far as Orientalism in particular and European knowledge of other societies in general have been concerned , historicism meant that one human history uniting humanity either culminated in or was observed from the vantage point of Europe , or the West …
2 ( 3 ) The losses against which a recognised body is required to insure under this Rule are all losses arising from claims in respect of civil liability incurred in the practice of the recognised body by the recognised body or by any of its officers or employees or former officers or employees or by any solicitor or registered foreign lawyer who is or was a consultant to or associate in the body 's practice or is or was working in the practice as an agent or a locum tenens ; save that a recognised body shall not be required to insure against losses arising from claims of a type excluded , by the indemnity rules applicable from time to time to recognised bodies , from being afforded indemnity by the Solicitors Indemnity Fund .
3 ‘ Precatory ’ neither ( as in English law ) implied caution about the clarity of intention , nor was used as the touchstone for deciding whether a disposition was a trust .
4 Although the starting point was the requirement of reducing numbers of employees , this requirement was translated into a productivity-improvement program that was implemented under the leadership of a transition-management team composed of high-potential managers .
5 Given the ecumenical spirit which has prevailed in many school religious assemblies for a number of years , it was hardly surprising that serious objection would be taken to the emphasis on Christian traditions that was incorporated into the law on collective worship .
6 The amount of ocean heat that was lost to the atmosphere during the Widdell polenier events in the mid nineteen seventies was absolutely enormous .
7 There was a burst of laughter and the woman shrieked something that was lost in the hubbub .
8 BP has already made one unsuccessful attempt to make use of its £500m in surplus advanced corporation tax with a North Sea-based scheme that was vetoed by the Treasury .
9 Aye with used just the grain that was grown on the croft and brought in a lot of the feed .
10 The attack begins with the attacker taking one full step forward and punching outwards with his ‘ cocked ’ fist , that is , the one that was resting on the hip .
11 But the Scrabo stone that was salvaged from the fire is to be re-used to face the new free standing church that is being built alongside the tower .
12 I was involved with the show that was recorded at The Marquee and I think a few months after that he called me and said he was doing an album called ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ and did n't know where to get it mixed .
13 Can I just one one final point there is e I did notice in my proof there was in in in typing there was one line I do n't know if you noticed there was one line that was missed off the bottom of one of the pages , and if I can er either give that to you .
14 Harvey just nodded and twisted a silk scarf inside out to demonstrate the map that was printed on the silk lining .
15 To distract Perdita 's attention from a terrified stray dog that was cringing on the right of the road , Luke pointed out three tumbledown houses on the left .
16 National and party interest thus combined to make Sonar Law promote a coalition , but it was the national interest that was cited as the reason for joining Asquith .
17 When the requirement was originally written erm and agreed in nineteen eighty seven all of the nations decided that erm we required a short take off and landing capability and that was based on the sort of the then cold war situation where the prospects of runways and airfields being very severely damaged in a sort of central European type of scenario , and therefore the possibility that there might be only very small operating strips available from those runways and that was the basis for the particular length that was decided at the time .
18 From then until Franco 's death in 1975 , it was no longer simply the victory in the Civil War that was invoked as the basis for Franco 's right to rule , but his role as the provider of material wealth and prosperity .
19 It 's a folly that was built by the Earl and Countess of Coventry so all their friends could see it for miles around .
20 As to the unfair and entirely predictable venom that was poured on the head of my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) a moment ago , it is increasingly impossible to have a sensible talk about sensitive matters without such abuse .
21 Their common aim is to help introduce a more just and democratic society ; to bring into being the social transformation that was announced by the government as it took over the leadership of the newly independent Zimbabwe in 1980 .
22 Charles and ken ( 1986 ) found that food consumption differed significantly between lone-mother and two-parent families in a way that was related to the presence of male partner .
23 Ken Vasey did n't have to make a save in the first half , did n't really have to did n't give Charlton a chance , and even in the second half when Charlton came forward more and more , they did n't really have any chances erm one that Lee volleyed over the bar , one that was headed over the crossbar , and the chance that went in the net , so they still did n't have many chances , but erm United somehow erm construed to drop two points , and erm yes , dreadfully disappointing .
24 Ella never missed anything that was said in the kitchen .
25 In fact I discovered later that he was sitting just under the window , and could hear everything that was said in the kitchen .
26 In its way the town possessed a certain prosperity that was based on the quality of the nearby timber , the richness of the black soil , and the failure of central government 's collectivization policy to reach with any great thoroughness into the self-sufficiency of the few thousands who lived there .
27 Writing subsequently and at greater length , Butenko set out a vision of the Soviet future that was based upon the concept of ‘ socialist popular self-management ’ and which involved the abolition of the nomenklatura appointments system and a wide-ranging electoral reform .
28 The doubt in his tone was understandable , for the sodden object that was reposing in the middle of a puddle bore small resemblance to any form of headgear .
29 Strangely the real sound rang out loudly over the pseudo-sound of the widening astral whirlpool that was forming in the middle of the great octagonal slab .
30 Er if you fully fund a TESSA at nine thousand , we 'd estimate around eleven to twelve thousand back , and not the sixteen thousand that was projected at the top of the cycle about three years ago .
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