Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [subord] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such personalities were seen as objectifying within the personality a particular sort of social and political ideology , which was the product of determinable social processes . |
| 2 | In addition to the processes just described , repeated presentation of a stimulus also brings about those changes responsible for habituation that I discussed in Chapter 2 — changes that were characterized as resulting in the formation of a representation of the stimulus . |
| 3 | Circulars were issued to local authorities ; arrangements were made for the billeting of evacuees ( involving detailed surveys of available accommodation ) ; those citizens most at risk ( principally children , mothers with pre-school children , the elderly , the blind , the disabled ) were identified as belonging to the ‘ priority classes ’ ; and , most important of all , the country was divided into evacuation areas ( containing 11 million people , from which 3 million in the priority classes would be removed ) , reception areas ( 16 million ) which would host the evacuees , and neutral areas ( 13 million ) . |
| 4 | I was convinced that if the Democrats were perceived as stalling in the midst of a national economic crisis , there would be hell to pay in the midterm elections . ’ |
| 5 | In particular the hedge on the Trough Road near the Cut and the section of Gubberford Lane on the West side near Gubberford Bridge were mentioned as encroaching onto the carriageway and in need of cutting back . |
| 6 | The first are the rich and well-born , the other the mass of the people " , Hamilton was reported as saying at the Federal Convention in 1787 . |
| 7 | But ‘ there was no cover up , ’ the Director of Water and Sewage was reported as saying in the Sunday Times . |
| 8 | In the Financial Times of March 28 Bush 's spokesman , Marlin Fitzwater , was reported as saying in the week following the talks that the President was concerned about " the possible collapse " of the Uruguay Round . |
| 9 | On leaving Apple , Steve Jobs was described as ‘ its heart and soul ’ ( Patterson , 1985 ) and Lévesque was seen as speaking for the little people of Quebec , the average French Canadians whom he loved . |
| 10 | The SOC , without actually rejecting the plan , gave the least enthusiastic response , with strong reservations about disarmament and about the SNC assuming direct control of key ministries , which was seen as amounting to the dissolution of the SOC government . |
| 11 | As we have seen , one of the main intentions of interactionism was to get away from the conservative , causal-corrective stance that was seen as resulting from the determinism and absolutism of positivist criminology . |
| 12 | The result was the development of strong anarcho-syndicalist tendencies within the labour movement in which the potential for revolutionary political change was seen as residing in the trade unions or syndicats , so that ‘ the workers , schooled by militancy , made irresistible by the all-powerful weapon of the general strike , would take over society themselves , without need of a political party ’ ( Kendall , 1975 , p. 17 ) . |
| 13 | Busek , who was Minister of Science and Research in Vranitzky 's government and was seen as coming from the ÖVP 's progressive wing , won 325 votes against 252 for Bernhard Görg , an economist . |
| 14 | Poland 's long-term security was seen as lying in the creation of a Euro-Atlantic security system , and future membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) was confirmed as an aim . |
| 15 | This idea of a connection between the capitalist economy and a democratic political system appeared in various forms in accounts of the transition that was seen as occurring in the nineteenth-century European societies ( for example , as a movement from status to contract , or from authority to citizenship ) , and it has continued to have an important influence in political theory to the present day . |
| 16 | The chain was envisaged as meandering throughout the system , entering and leaving several ordered regions along its length . |
| 17 | The North American Free Trade Zone ( Nafta ) was envisaged as stretching from the Yukon to the Yucatán peninsula [ for background see pp. 37849 ; 38140 ] . |
| 18 | The succession to the Empire was soon re-established in the Habsburg line and the link with Hungary came again after the battle of Mohács in 1526 , when Ferdinand I of Austria succeeded the last Jagellonian King of Hungary and Bohemia , Ludovic , who was drowned while fleeing from the battlefield . |
| 19 | He is noted for possessing a ferocious intellectual curiosity — and when I asked him what he was reading while cruising across the Atlantic on Concorde , he said without flinching , Conversations with Isaiah Berlin . |
| 20 | Louis , a sportsman and only child , was struck while jogging at the edge of the road . |
| 21 | Louis , an all-round sportsman and only child , was struck while jogging at the edge of the road on 13 July . |
| 22 | In a report to the London Hazards Centre , Michael Meacher , then Shadow Employment Secretary , was quoted as saying of the Conservatives : |
| 23 | Reports spoke also of feelings of resentment among some black African leaders , including Diouf , who was quoted as saying after the summit that " we respect the Arabs more than they respect us " . |
| 24 | ‘ Who can help us without transferring their problems to us ? ’ von Kuenheim was quoted as saying in The Economist earlier this year . |