Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] its [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite official claims to the contrary it was widely believed that China was maintaining its supplies to the Khmers Rouges and considerable stockpiles of arms were thought to have been accumulated . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the Conservative Party was regrouping its forces after the defeat of 1945 , building up better-organised and larger constituency parties and reorganising its ideology . |
| 3 | Chalker said , however , that the Sudanese government was evading its responsibilities in the organization of the relief operation . |
| 4 | According to the report , a commission in charge of the negotiations with political parties , chaired by Finance Minister Enoch Ruhigira , was focusing its discussions on the distribution of Cabinet posts , including that of prime minister , between political parties . |
| 5 | It is particularly interesting in the way that it counters the widely held view that Los Alamos was dragging its feet over the development of the Super even after the presidential directive in early 1950 for a crash programme towards producing a hydrogen weapon . |
| 6 | There was public and media speculation that the real purpose of the ANC 's letter was to rally its supporters in the townships , and to fend off criticism that it attached more importance to pressing on with constitutional negotiations with the government than to defending its own people . |
| 7 | He said that his department was concentrating its activities on the investigation in hand , for the time being . |