Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jeez , how on earth d' ya take a bath and how is your love life ’ were presumably part of the empathy process from Gerry and his audience almost comatose with voyeurism and in need of splints for drop-jaw . |
| 2 | The defendants who manufactured similar valves and were effectively competitors of the plaintiff company offered work to the plaintiff 's employees on Sundays . |
| 3 | The men , who were mostly Sudanis from the south , ignored them but looked uneasy . |
| 4 | There were long shifts on the road without a break , and wives used to bring their husband 's lunch out to them on the road . |
| 5 | The spots and patches visible on the Moon were merely reflections of the Earth 's imperfect relief in the Moon 's smooth and crystalline surface . |
| 6 | These two travellers were apparently strangers in the area , yet how did they know about this forest path leading to a glade with water to refresh themselves ? |
| 7 | Mr Lang said that the allocations were only part of the story since authorities could also spend their capital receipts and use revenue to fund capital expenditure . |
| 8 | In this case , I am going to assume that there were only girls on the island , and also that they were the same ages and from the same middle-class English background as the boys . |
| 9 | Kate had told him that at present there were only women in the house and it seemed sensible that he should have a woman with him , particularly as it was Kate who had first broken the news . |
| 10 | They were only minutes from the railway station , the service was frequent . |
| 11 | They were only silhouettes in the dusk . |
| 12 | Spring had been mentioned as a possible time , the timing of the UK referendum on the European Community , and the incidence of Easter , were obviously factors in the situation . |
| 13 | The people would understand , he thought ; if they did n't , they were obviously supporters of the maniac Sam , and would be properly shot . |
| 14 | As a nation , the Germans were far more formal dressers than the British : the only people around the centre of Osnabrück not wearing ties were obviously foreigners by the rest of their dress . |
| 15 | The judges in that case recognised that decisions of the stewards might affect the public but concluded they were not decisions in the sphere of public law . |
| 16 | Of the 78 members of the Constitutional Convention , 24 are new in the sense that they were not members of the Assembly , and of those 24 , 20 belong to the UUUC coalition . |
| 17 | The Minister 's choice was based upon an examination of the Registers of Exchequer , by which it appeared ‘ that the owners of much of the greater part of the property in the district interest themselves for Mr. Lapslie ’ , who accordingly obtained the presentation regardless of the fact that two of Lapslie 's supporters were not members of the Church of Scotland . |
| 18 | Such a move would probably be ruled out even if we were not members of the exchange rate mechanism . |
| 19 | To the waiters standing about it seemed to be perfectly stationary , but they were not members of the Chop Society and it was not their table . |
| 20 | The words in square brackets have now been repealed by the Local Government ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1982 , removing the anomaly which prevented local authorities from taking legal action under this section , in respect of odours affecting employees and others who were not inhabitants of the neighbourhood , despite being of the opinion that the odour was sufficiently obnoxious to amount to a nuisance . |
| 21 | The new electronic media of the 1980s , such as cable , satellite TV and video recorders , were not variations in the product reaching the audience , as were those changes in the press . |
| 22 | They were not puppets like the garden-master . |
| 23 | The USA was authorized both by international law and by UN sanctions to intercept shipping destined for Iraq in the wake of the Gulf war , but had no authority to divert shipments bound for Iran or Syria because Iran , North Korea and Syria were not signatories to the Missile Technology Control Regime . |
| 24 | We are very willing to accept that those parts of the judges ' visitorial jurisdiction which were not incident to the administration of justice in the courts passed down through the routes suggested by Sir William and Professor Baker , but in the context of the present case , where the court has for the first time to inquire into the particular function which is being performed , we are not satisfied that the whole of the visitorial jurisdiction passed by this route . |
| 25 | Gandhi and Nehru , Mandela and Mugabe , or for that matter the late Zulfikhar Bhutto , who complained about the absence of a sense of Pakistani nationhood , are or were not nationalists in the sense of Landsbergis or Tudjman . |
| 26 | The passages were not part of the ratio of the decision by which we are bound and with which I respectfully agree . |
| 27 | It dealt with Rastafarian spiritual entities such as Jah or with ganja ( marihuana ) which were not part of the skinhead scene . |
| 28 | This theory carries with it the implication that the cyclostome characters mentioned above were not part of the history of gnathostomes but were instead specializations restricted to lampreys and hagfishes . |
| 29 | They also include a couple of originals that were not part of the promotion , plus Jane Barry 's Casting ( Corgi ) for a light fun read , and Liane Jones ' The Dreamstone ( Mandarin ) for a glorious time-travel romance . |
| 30 | Mr Justice Millett held that , by reason of the decision of the Chief Commons Commissioner on 17 March 1977 , the plaintiffs were estopped from asserting as against the defendant council ( other than in proceedings concerned with the registrability of certain grass road verges within the Royal Manor of Portland under the Commons Registration Act 1965 , in respect of which the plaintiffs accept that this issue had been finally determined ) that the road verges were not part of the highway . |