Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly important is the evidence that , where elderly people are sharing with younger relatives , these arrangements often were entered into in the first instance for the benefit of the younger as much as the older generation . |
| 2 | This debate re-opens some of the issues that were touched upon in the first chapter concerning the nature of metaphysics and the argument that Ayer acts in a reductionist way by proscribing , in effect , certain interpretations of reality . |
| 3 | Significant population differences were tested for in the second part to establish the probability of variations being due to systematic effects or to chance . |
| 4 | All these obligations were accounted for in the first recorded reference to the properties in the Company 's books on 19th April 1496 together with the £10 for John Randall the school 's first known Master , and the £4 6 8d to John Bockley , the priest at Longdendale . |
| 5 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
| 6 | Craig 's is an untypically simple case inasmuch as his surplus arose as early as the second count and was disposed of in the third . |
| 7 | The wooden panel was tampered with in the last century , probably while it was housed in the Museo dell'Accademia : at that time it was fitted with a hinged iron surround so that it could be swivelled . |
| 8 | However , if this is accepted , then we end up again with the concept of a particular as some kind of a temporally extended " peg " for qualities — a view which the theory was directed against in the first instance . |