Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In 1986 , 38 students were enrolled on to the parallel track , but during the next academic year something unexpected happened . |
| 4 | As we were stepping on to the adjoining barge , the man on the bench called out to us . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So off we went out and we played our football , and I came back , and we were sneaking in through the back door and bumped right into him . |
| 7 | Ardglass were squeezed out on the final card . |
| 8 | Tremayne said nothing until we were driving back to the stable and then all he did was ask me if I were happy with what I 'd done . |
| 9 | The Barbarians were knocking about in the late bronze age and iron age . |
| 10 | After a slower than expected march we were gearing up on the famous Green Ledge in bright sunshine — the Ennerdale mountains stretching away like the bony spine of a slumbering dragon . |
| 11 | Furthermore , no alteration of the protein pattern in the electrophoresis was observed when the competitions were carried out with the mutated oligonucleotides ( results not shown ) , demonstrating that the binding of the proteins to the oligonucleotide was specific . |
| 12 | Subsequent measurements were carried out with the 76-m Lovell telescope at frequencies between 408MHz and 1,660 MHz . |
| 13 | Until post-war reconstruction began in the 1950s and early 1960s , most building projects were carried out in the traditional manner , with an architect designing the building and managing the contract , a quantity surveyor preparing bills of quantities , valuations and a final account , and a general contractor who actually constructed the building . |
| 14 | Surveys carried out by the optical profession show that after an initial drop , 12.43 million sight tests were carried out in the financial year ending 1991 . |
| 15 | The Commission was to have not just the right to initiate and recommend policy to its executive partner , the Council of Ministers , but also the task of ensuring that the provisions of the treaty and policies emanating from the Council of Ministers were carried out by the other institutions and the member states . |
| 16 | Inspections were carried out by the Ceramic Industries Certification Scheme Ltd who are linked with the British Ceramic Research Association . |
| 17 | The settlers ' attempts at agriculture were frustrated , except on the southern steppe frontier , by frozen subsoil and the sub-arctic climate , and as they were carried out by the primitive ‘ slash-and-burn ’ method , were highly destructive of the forest environment . |
| 18 | The controls were voted in at the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ( CCMLR ) . |
| 19 | The last two boxes were lifted on to the small boat , the men who strained under their weight cursing as they completed their task . |
| 20 | First , on the rateable value of the property , which was a value based on an assessment of what the property could earn if it were let out on the open market . |
| 21 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 22 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 23 | Unless the working classes were caught up in the new sectarian movements of Protestantism ( which were themselves a reaction and response to modernity ) , they were liable to slip into unbelief . |
| 24 | Many of the leading scholars amongst the South Slavs during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were widely travelled and had studied in France , Germany , Austria and Italy , where they were caught up in the intellectual ferment which was abroad at that time . |
| 25 | Hundreds of thousands of people travelling home or heading out for the evening were caught up in the ensuing chaos . |
| 26 | On Jan. 2 fighters of the Fatah group ( loyal to Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) chair Yassir Arafat ) , which had been deployed to protect two Palestinian refugee camps near Sidon , were caught up in the intra-Shia fighting . |
| 27 | The judges said they were won over by the sheer fun of its output . |
| 28 | Most of their funds were lent back to the personal sector . |
| 29 | Enclosed monks and nuns , hermits and anchoresses , were sought out by the secular clergy and by the laity for advice and help . |
| 30 | The rest were written off to the Chinese , who did not take kindly to violation of their air-space . |