Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , they were so bad in the one matinee performance in which they were tried out , that the original speeches were reinstated by the time the curtain went up at the Globe Theatre that evening . |
| 2 | If it were to continue throughout the decade the structure of the game could change significantly , by forcing counties to employ only a small force of top-class full-time professionals supplemented with part timers and the many amateur cricketers thrown up in the recreational game . |
| 3 | If floral characters were included in the comparison the average difference between clones was 5.4 characters . |
| 4 | Riders were seen in the forest the day Eleanor Belmont died . ’ |
| 5 | Many of these military rulers were granted by the emperor the tide of shoguni , a designation according formal recognition as the emperor 's military deputy . |
| 6 | Dolphin kills were suspected from the time the practice of fishing on dolphins began in 1959 , but a secretive tuna industry for many years resisted all attempts to have observers placed on their boats , no doubt fearful of the outrage that would result if the truth were made public . |
| 7 | The team decided that improvements were needed in the way the payslip is laid out . |
| 8 | So they were to walk to the House the longest way , along the fringe of St James 's Park . |
| 9 | Debbie did not know her surname nor her address and when police were called to the hospital the little girl was too distressed and confused to help them with their inquiries . |
| 10 | They were posessed with the fear the world would end around the year 1500 . |
| 11 | They were saying on the television the other day |
| 12 | In January 1990 ( i ) two people were on Jan. 22 shot dead and nine injured in the gold-mining town of Carletonville , 60 km south-west of Johannesburg , when police opened fire on a crowd of 5,000 blacks who were protesting at the death the previous week of a 16-year-old boy while held in detention ; and ( ii ) using razor wire , water cannon and plastic bullets , the police on Jan. 23 dispersed an illegal gathering of 8,000 demonstrators in Cape Town who were supporting the National Education Crisis Committee 's protest against the black education system . |
| 13 | But the amounts the Poles spent were dwarfed by the way the Nazis used state funds as if they were from the Nazi Party cash box . |
| 14 | Figure 7.4 In each of six groups of pigtail macaques ( Macaca nemestrina ) , when adult males were removed from the group the amount of aggression among the remaining females increased dramatically . |
| 15 | Even when the siblings ' reactions to the aggressive child were eliminated from the analysis the siblings ' behaviour was much more aggressive in normal families . |
| 16 | I am satisfied that in their dealings with Mr. Docherty , which I will describe , they were following to the letter the procedures required of them by present Government policy . |
| 17 | Those comments were quoted in The Observer the following Sunday . |
| 18 | Art Now had started life as a lecture series , but Read was a frequent reviewer of exhibitions , and a contributor to the Listener , from which some short essays were published under the title The Meaning of Art . |
| 19 | The church in nearby Catherington , Hants , was filled with the song The Time of my Life , taken from Helen 's favourite film Dirty Dancing . |
| 20 | When the information proxy was omitted from the equation the number of significant negative maturity effects increased for all measures of volatility , particularly Garman and Klass and the daily range . |
| 21 | When pressed by the defence on how he could see what was happening in the dark the man replied : ‘ I was reared without lights . |
| 22 | Police were called but when he was interviewed about the attack the next day he could not remember anything . |
| 23 | The runners in the group , when not occupied in pushing chairs , collected money in buckets on the way round and £330 was collected for the home the disabled athletes come from . |
| 24 | Although a curfew was imposed throughout the city the next day crowds , including large numbers of students , still demonstrated in the city centre . |
| 25 | I ask whether the legacy is only of what was owed at the time the will was made or if later increases in that sum by way of interest are also included . |
| 26 | On 1 September 19 — A. Creditor , who is a supplier to the Atlas Hotel , was owed by the hotel the amount of £85.00 . |
| 27 | Georgia was looking at the bracelet the same way she used to look at the hill when she was five , she was in awe of it , it might be too strong for her . |
| 28 | You can do this to the extent of saying as Agatha Christie ( who abandoned Hercule Poirot 's charmingly bumbling Captain Hastings quite early ) does in One , Two , Buckle my Shoe ; " For the first time Hercule Poirot was looking at the case the right way up . " |
| 29 | During the few moments in which she paused in her ascent to the church she reflected that now she was looking at the view the other way round ; now she was in one of the overcrowded little alleys visible from San Martino as merely a crack in a vast expanse of roof tiles and crumbling masonry and noticeable from that lofty vantage point because of the fluttering of the washing hung out on poles over the street to dry . |
| 30 | — There at once was presented to the world the final canon of aesthetics . " |