Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such assertions were developed in the 1970s into an onslaught on the theory of ‘ equidistance between the blocs ’ . |
| 2 | Political and economic theories about the process of West European integration were developed in the 1950s in the light of the patterns of trade , industrial production , social interchange across borders , and international security which then prevailed . |
| 3 | ‘ The valises were placed by the submersible in large baskets at the bottom of the ocean , ’ Mr Geller said . |
| 4 | These dancers were placed in the first of Noverre 's categories . |
| 5 | The movies were ‘ for the millions ’ but they were given to the millions by showmen . |
| 6 | But it 's only available if your contributions were withdrawn before the first of June nineteen seventy three . |
| 7 | but it 's only available for contributions that were withdrawn before the first of June nineteen seventy three and you know if you did n't meet that particular date then the only other way of of covering gaps is which is far more expensive . |
| 8 | Before long England were benefitting from the first of a string of catches dropped by both sides , and their total of 263 was over a hundred more than it would have been had Boycott , Woolmer and Botham not had a second chance . |
| 9 | These , however , are not part of Aarau 's medieval history , but were painted in the 1950s by Felix Hoffmann , a local artist . |
| 10 | Figure 5 shows their distribution with time ; 49% occurred in the first four seconds after the onset of the common cavity episode and 34% were scattered over the 5th to the 27th second after the onset of the common cavity . |
| 11 | Iron , too , was abundant ; only Ireland , Switzerland and Denmark had no ore , and Europe 's deposits were supplemented in the 1890s by huge discoveries in north Sweden , whose ore was twice as rich as that of Lorraine . |
| 12 | At least 37 deaths were reported on the first of three days of polling . |
| 13 | Toynbee Hall was designed as a residential settlement to be inhabited by young university graduates , who were to work among the poor in their spare time — offering art , music and education as well as material help and advice — with the aim of achieving mutual knowledge and respect between the classes . |
| 14 | Kentish archers were considered among the finest in the country and it is not unlikely that archers from Halling were present with Lord Cobham during the Hundred Years War and also at Agincourt , where the archers of Kent were in the fore front and played a major part in the defeat of the French Cavalry . |
| 15 | Doorbells were rung in the dead of night , early morning alarm calls were made , friends ' cars had their locks covered in sticky tape . |
| 16 | Solon divided the citizen body into four classes on the basis of wealth or property ownership , and while most important political offices were confined to the higher of these classes , the lowest class were entitled to attend the Assembly or Ecclesia , and to make up the juries who decided both on guilt and innocence and on sentences in the courts . |
| 17 | One Friday lunchtime we learned that there were no more classes that day but we were confined to the Grand till evening . |
| 18 | He provided quixotic endpapers for his own first editions , which later became collectors ' items , and his paintings , in oils , water-colours , and pencil , crayon , and gouache , were exhibited in the 1940s at the Leicester Galleries . |
| 19 | Artefacts were manufactured in the finest of the United Kingdom workshops and factories of the era , and the Twining Model Co. was chosen to assist the manufacturers where necessary . |
| 20 | Although a number of Directives were adopted in the 1970s on various aspects of employees ' rights , it is the passage of the Single European Act which has given new impetus to the evolution of EC social policies . |
| 21 | Injections were made into the vitreous by placing the needle just posterior to the corneoscleral junction , and the success of the injection was confirmed by ensuring that the pupillary response was eliminated . |
| 22 | I knew that these paintings were produced for the Spanish in the decades after their conquest of Latin America , and represented the christianising of the old centres of Inca culture , in Peru and Bolivia especially . |
| 23 | Medicine was a particular interest of the Tughluk Sultans , and Sultan Muhammed 's nephew Firoz Shah founded no fewer than seventy dispensaries and a Shifa Khana ( or Central Hospital ) where free food , drink and medicine were supplied to the sick at the expense of the treasury . |
| 24 | Melton , whose 78 rpm recordings were sold by the million across the USA and Canada , was a charming fellow . |
| 25 | Faced with that dilemma the plaintiffs chose to endeavour to run the business to an early sale and that is what they did my Lord and er the premises were put back on the market er in the early part of nineteen eighty six and er it is pleaded that er in in paragraph six statement of claim , that in May er a buyer came forward but that sale did not go ahead er because there were unreasonable delays on the part of the purchaser erm and er the deal fell through but then again in July er after the business had ceased trading , another buyer was found and then there was a lengthy period of negotiations at the conclusion of which the sale price was reduced because at that stage the plaintiff 's landlord was going to increase the rent er and the plaintiffs were at that stage under threat of forfeiture and eventually contracts were exchanged on the sixth of November nineteen eighty six the sale price being eighty one thousand five hundred and er completion was on the fifth of December nineteen eighty six . |
| 26 | Style theories were popularised in the 1950's-1960's by several American social scientists . |
| 27 | Known as ‘ lubberkins ’ in Elizabethan times , the more doltish lobs were relegated to the simplest of tasks and took their refreshments outdoors , so clumsy and ill-mannered were they . |
| 28 | Fine , almost invisible lines covered the whole surface , as if the sphere were netted by the frailest of spiders ' webs . |
| 29 | Both forms were revolutionized in the 1980s by the development and dissemination of new information and communication technologies , such as cable and satellite television , video and the institutionalization of the capacity for total packaging of cultural products . |
| 30 | He did in the end manage to reach Liverpool Street station just as the passengers were coming off the two-twenty from Ipswich . |