Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These feelings of isolation and insecurity , combined with a belief in a ‘ special destiny ’ , were developed further by the Marxist-Leninist ideology with which the Soviet leadership was associated after 1917 . |
| 2 | Long spines on the exterior of the shell were developed especially during the Carboniferous . |
| 3 | The parallels here are with Sheffield before huge new steel works were erected there during the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 5 | The single cards too were placed variously in the top half , bottom half and crossing the central strip . |
| 6 | The prison , where some of the dissidents who opposed the Shahs rule were held by SAVAK , was painted up , the street were cleaned , pots of flowers were placed all along the main roads , birds in cages were hung from lamp posts , shopkeepers were given blue coats to wear . |
| 7 | In fact most outstanding problems were ironed out over the last couple of months , Goldstein says ; bug fixing remains . |
| 8 | In fact most outstanding problems were ironed out over the last couple of months , Goldstein says ; bug fixing remains . |
| 9 | To begin with plasmas were heated solely by the electric current flowing through the discharge , in a way similar to the ohmic heating of a wire element . |
| 10 | His feelings of inferiority were compounded only by the vague sense of unease that his careerism and social mobility had possibly been misguided from the outset . |
| 11 | When the Hooligans first put in an appearance , the floggers and die-hards had been much in evidence , but they were eased aside with the growing recognition that Hooliganism was a pointer towards a general dislocation among the youth — and not just a ‘ hard core ’ — and that the problem was therefore immune to a narrow penal response . |
| 12 | The songs of the whales carry through the water , over long distances with astonishing clarity , and were heard clearly through the wooden hulls of the old whaling ships in calm weather , giving rise to the belief that the sounds were the songs of mermaids . |
| 13 | They were jounced mercilessly on the narrow fitted bench . |
| 14 | Even by 1926 party contacts between the capital and Smolensk were to remain mostly at the written rather than at the human level . |
| 15 | By 1637 the Church family , from whom the mill takes its name , were in residence and were to remain so until the early part of the 18th century . |
| 16 | When the car became an open tourer , the hood and supports were tucked away behind the leather-covered front seats and concealed by a sheet of green hessian . |
| 17 | Three large gravity-feed fuel tanks were situated immediately beneath the upper wing centre-section , each tank feeding an individual engine . |
| 18 | On May 7 the Executive Yuan lifted martial law on the offshore islands of Matsu and Chinmen ( Quemoy ) , both of which were situated close to the Chinese mainland . |
| 19 | The proposals were received coolly by the African National Congress ( ANC ) whose deputy president , Nelson Mandela , warned that the time had not yet come for the lifting of sanctions . |
| 20 | Even if she were to go voluntarily before the next election , that could only be very bad news for him . |
| 21 | Such arguments over values , political or religious , were to go on into the next decade . |
| 22 | If one of these groups were to go over to the other side — as the army did in Romania — the balance of forces would be altered . |
| 23 | Twenty-five per cent of decisions reviewed were changed , 57% were referred back to the local office and in 18% of cases the original decision was confirmed . |
| 24 | In Argentina , serious negotiations with the state oil firm YPF were broken off after the 1930 coup . |
| 25 | Of the surviving children of William Charles and Anne , five were baptised together on the same day ( 10 July 1817 ) in their father 's original parish at the miniature City church of St Ethelburga , Bishopsgate . |
| 26 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 27 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 28 | The arguments were fleshed out by the foreign Minister , Selwyn Lloyd , at a NATO Council meeting in December , where he introduced proposals for what became known as the Grand Design . |
| 29 | It was as though his hand and his whole arm were plunged deep within the hot tight birth-canal of some angry animal to manipulate the contents of a packed , pulsing womb . |
| 30 | It 's not that Binbrook was such an important station to warrant all this staff , but as the size of the RAF contracted more and more , Waafs were posted there from the closing satellite stations and at one point there were twelve of us . |