Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 2 | Around 1.7 million of these were looking after someone in the same household ; 1.4 million were providing help or supervision for at least twenty hours a week ; and 3.7 million were carrying the main responsibility for providing that help ( Green , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | Again in the 45–60 age group , noticeably higher proportions of unmarried women were caring for someone in the same household , were the main carers of their disabled relatives and friends , and were caring for over twenty hours a week than were either their married or male counterparts ( Green , 1988 , pp. 9–10 ) . |
| 4 | CTL were detected to none of the peptides from the three sporozoite antigens , but three out of six individuals tested responded to the ls6 peptide from LSA-1 ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 5 | S1 always stood out as a unit and these boys , who were always together , were known by everybody in the sample . |
| 6 | ‘ I hope you get bloody herpes , ’ she shouted — rather an old-fashioned shout in Oxford in 1988 , when the younger dons were talking about nothing but the case of AIDS in Merton . |
| 7 | Tolkien shrank from that last , and recorded ( UT , p. 385 ) a rival theory that the orcs were bred from something like the Drúedain , the pûkel-men . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's still working on the theory that they were killed by someone from the neighbourhood who resented them and their prosperity . ’ |
| 9 | Oh they 've it off the Sunday because it was competing with something on the Sunday , what 's the other side Sunday ? |
| 10 | The rise in the share of fixed investment , from 19 per cent of GDP in 1955 to 33 per cent in 1961 , was paralleled by one in the share of ( pre-tax ) gross profit incomes , up from 31 to 39 per cent . |
| 11 | He was wrestling with something on the other side of that landing door , pushing open the door with one foot and shouting : ‘ Come on , then ! |
| 12 | She turned the heavy , white porcelain door knob and pushed gently , then switched off the torch in case she was seen by someone at the back of the house , and entered the bedroom . |
| 13 | Have a look at that , I mean , it would have been better if Jemma was here , because I do n't want to criticise , I mean , I used Jemma 's because it was actually probably the best one that was done by anyone in the group . |
| 14 | Things were getting interesting at last , Lacuna was dumbstruck , and no-one except her was looking at anything except the screens . |
| 15 | He was looking for something along the lines of Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy , an American from nowhere , and all the actors coming in were doing an Andrew Dice Clay or Billy Idol number . |
| 16 | I 've never seen anything like it before , ’ and she was looking from one to the other , wondering which one it was meant to fit , when Miss Rene startled her by saying , ‘ Well , get your coat and things off and try it on . ’ |
| 17 | Ward was looking from one to the other . |
| 18 | It 's not known with any degree of certainty , erm , there was some indication by someone writing at the end of the last century , that it was written by someone in the time of the Queen Elizabeth , hence , perhaps it was God Save The Queen . |
| 19 | Its prince was to be elected by the Bulgarians , confirmed by Turkey with the assent of the powers , and was to belong to none of the great reigning houses of Europe . |
| 20 | I did take out one thing about the bible since it was going to somebody in the States in the bible belt and I did n't |
| 21 | From 21 March 1988 , this future was replaced by one on the Value Line Arithmetic index , which is the arithmetic equivalent of the VLCI . |
| 22 | Before the war , foods such as butter and cheese were given two layers of wrappers by the counter hand , but this was reduced to one under the restrictions . |
| 23 | Nothing was entered by anyone under the fifth , ‘ Other ’ choice . |
| 24 | The petition was accompanied by one from the magnates , who also sought the withdrawal of the tax on wool : it appears that for the first time since the Ordinances of 1310–11 the commons and the magnates were joining together to seek concessions and measures of reform from the king . |
| 25 | He poured himself more whisky , pressing Herr Nordern to have another , too , and saying that he was leading the Norderns into bad ways but that they must forgive him as it was n't very often they saw him , ha ! ha ! and Herr Nordern , while not prepared to accept that he was led by anyone except the leaders of his country , took the whisky , thinking , what the devil , he had worked like a dog all day , and it was true , Karl would not be with them much longer and they would probably never see him again and , he had to confess , he would n't mind if he never saw him again as long as either of them lived . |
| 26 | Convinced that education was the prime path to political formation , he became a schoolmaster and , although his socialism made it hard to find a place , he was appointed to one by the Govan school board . |
| 27 | The deferential tone , and the fact that it 's couched as a letter rather than as a minute , suggest that it was directed to someone outside the Civil Service . |
| 28 | For December 14th 1804 he writes : ‘ finished the three drawings for Mr. Knowlys — Mrs. Green delivered of a dead daughter the child full grown ’ , and on January 23rd 1808 he wrote tersely ‘ My wife was delivered about one in the day of a daughter . ’ |
| 29 | She did n't know any of the names ; she smiled and shook hands and was passed from one to the other like a parcel . |
| 30 | I was talking to someone in the Federation the other day , the Police Federation , trying to tease out this idea a and they said the sort of a permanent Under Secretary . |