Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social events for example were organised for the deaf rather than by deaf people themselves , mainly by hearing missioners ; deaf magazines like the Deaf Quarterly News and the British Deaf Times were largely aimed at a readership far too sophisticated for the average ordinary deaf person , written and edited by missioners ; the Guild of St. John of Beverley , an organisation of mainly clerical missioners interested in doing things for the deaf , flourished . |
| 2 | Deer , which were hunted by the rich therefore came to be associated with affluence ; and the peony , which was cultivated in the gardens of the nobility , was thus seen to symbolize the rank , wealth and well-being that accompanied this station in life . |
| 3 | 24 films were selected from the 60 originally used , these showed three exemplars from each of eight junctions . |
| 4 | By comparing the fineness of the Sutton Hoo coins themselves with this trend , it was possible to say that the basest and therefore latest coins in the purse were made in the 620s AD , thus defining the earliest probable date for the ship burial . |
| 5 | The Russians were helped through the fleeing southwards of many of those who might have obstructed them . |
| 6 | Raked expanses of shinshun — the black volcanic sand which covered great expanses of the G'bai desert to the south of the continent — were dotted with the occasional carefully pruned tree , and there were isolated rocks . |
| 7 | If the British proportion were increased in the 1990s then this would only have the effect of bringing Britain into line with her industrial competitors and , presumably , investing for the future . |
| 8 | This includes the unpaired datapoints and the repeated post-treatment datapoints which were excluded from the above pairwise analyses . |
| 9 | Coal tar linings were banned from the 1970s onwards after advice from WRC but , said a TWA spokesman , someone would now have to foot the bill for replacing the old linings ‘ and it looks like the ratepayer ’ . |
| 10 | Within this superficial understanding , the correct ideology was distinguished from the false solely according to the criteria of a realistic theory of knowledge . |
| 11 | His transfer was reported on the Nine O'Clock News , he was swamped by media attention , he was given a lucrative contract to advertise milk and even appeared on 20-foot advertising hoardings throughout London . |
| 12 | It was reported as the largest ever gathering of world leaders . |
| 13 | The corner house on the other side of the street ( 31/585 ) , the Pachta Palace , was rebuilt in the 1730s probably to a design by K. I. Dientzenhofer . |
| 14 | Total debt too continued to increase from $633 billion in 1980 to $ 1,217 billion in 1987 , of which about 40 per cent was owed by the fifteen heavily indebted countries . |
| 15 | New Delhi was built by the British early this century and evokes memories of a different era with its wide avenues , beautiful gardens and imposing buildings . |
| 16 | A significant difference between Phaistos and Knossos arises because virtually the whole of the first temple at Phaistos was replaced when the site was redeveloped after the 1700 BC destruction : only the Central Court remained . |
| 17 | But it remains unclear what type of rifle was used in the two most recent murders in Forkhill and Crossmaglen . |
| 18 | Thus the " domino " theory , later articulated by the Americans , was anticipated by the British as early as 1948 – 49 . |
| 19 | If I was born on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh right , no if I was born on the eleventh about nineteen hundred , then on the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh , announce , that 's when I was born zero , six , six , eleventh , eleventh , sixty-six , I was eleven on the eleventh of the eleventh of seventy-seven , I was , I was twenty-two on the eleventh of the eleventh , eighty-eight , I was thirty-three on the eleventh of the eleventh noticed how they 're all double all the way through |
| 20 | Each day was blessed with the same strangely cool weather , until one evening the clear sky suddenly filled with haze and the new moon faded out of sight as though sailing out of orbit into oblivion . |
| 21 | Ivy Compton-Burnett , whose elegantly minimal and stylized dialogue has similarities with the narrative technique of Nathalie Sarraute , was appreciated in the 1950s primarily for her wit in portraying the viciousness of social interaction rather than for the techniques she employed . |
| 22 | The following year was billed as the last ever and saw Steel Pulse canned off after 15 minutes by a typically broad-minded Stranglers crowd and Black Sabbath playing in front of an unfinished replica of Stonehenge . |
| 23 | The train was running in the open now , the blackness beyond its windows relieved by distant amber lights which seemed to track their progress like the eyes of forest-dwelling creatures fixed on a lonely wayfarer . |
| 24 | ‘ It is possible that the body was taken to the Close only a short time before it was discovered , ’ Morton said . |
| 25 | You know , the decision whether we were gon na go back to work because of these threatening letters was taken by the forty well fifty members of the lodge , so in effect I was sacked by people who had since returned to work , but you know that 's how it should be . |
| 26 | Marjorie made a moue at Isobel , who had walked over to the cot in the far comer of the room and was standing in the same apparently relaxed but watchful posture she had displayed downstairs . |
| 27 | As you might well expect , Microsoft Windows played a key role at the COMDEX exhibition , a single section of which was dedicated to the largest ever demonstration of third-party Windows applications . |
| 28 | Within a year he had moved to a more creative agency and four years later was working at the then most creative agency in London . |
| 29 | She was working on the two o'clock to ten o'clock shift at the factory and on the Tuesday morning was up early to do some ironing , then she began to prepare the midday meal for herself and her mother and father , and Aunt Carrie who was visiting them . |