Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offensive and defensive aims of the war were skilfully linked in the argument deployed in 1352 that the security of England was threatened by the French king 's denial of Edward 's right . |
| 2 | In addition , the preamble to the Bill contained a false recital that plans of the lands and a book of reference to such plans containing the names of the owners , lessees and occupiers of the said land were duly deposited with the clerk of the county council . |
| 3 | As time passed , Elena too became the subject of such gestures of endorsement from the West which were duly recorded for the benefit of Romanians , lest they forget by just how an extraordinary couple they were ruled . |
| 4 | Undoubtedly , the alkylated rosanilines ( eg Hofmann violent , 6 ) came out of this cooperation , and were duly added to the firm 's product list . |
| 5 | There was only the slightest of pauses for communal reflection before twenty-nine pairs of shoes were duly launched at the teacher in charge . |
| 6 | By 1901 worker activists were overwhelmingly committed to the need for political revolution . |
| 7 | They operated mainly as market centres for local areas and , as such , they were overwhelmingly dominated by the countryside , where wealth and power were concentrated . |
| 8 | Mugabe 's proposals in August to introduce a one-party state were successfully opposed by the majority of the ZANU-PF politburo , who preferred to capitalize on the party 's de facto domination of political life rather than formalize it constitutionally [ see p. 37643 ] . |
| 9 | Acorn Computer Ltd chose the Cebit Hannover Fair to launch a German version of its RISC OS 3 operating system : not much to it you may think — just translate the error messages — unfortunately the company had reckoned without the sheer verbosity of the German language — it took five beta versions before all the Achtung ! messages were successfully squeezed into the ROM . |
| 10 | There charges of corruption were successfully brought against the vice-president , and in November 1629 his resignation from the office was forced . |
| 11 | Almost , you know and they said they were better , we were right looking at the stage over this time . |
| 12 | In that debate they were powerfully assisted by the shock effects of the communist takeover in Czechoslovakia in February 1948 and by the Soviet blockade of the Western zones in Berlin from the summer of 1948 . |
| 13 | In the half-century between 1787 and 1838 the overall organisational and institutional forms of antislavery were powerfully shaped by the need for meeting the propaganda and political challenge of the West India interest . |
| 14 | But now the whole team were keenly focused on the game . |
| 15 | Though scientists were highly critical of the aristocratic amateurishness of many senior army administrators , they were keenly attracted to the image of a militarily organized society . |
| 16 | They were eventually escorted to the airport from where they returned to Bangkok . |
| 17 | They were an organisation of " warrior monks " who became so powerful that they were eventually disbanded by the Crown . |
| 18 | It is quite obvious now that if there was more to Monica 's missing Wimbledon in 1991 than the shin splints that were eventually given as the reason , she is not going to tell us . |
| 19 | Lost to a rich Jewish family who were eventually to die in the concentration camps after Hitler had promised to return the estate to his father for duties performed . |
| 20 | The university authorities encouraged this novel development and three students were eventually elected to the county congress . |
| 21 | The Zeebrugge tragedy led to the prosecution of individual members of the crew of the vessel , and the board of the company concerned for unlawful killing , although they were eventually acquitted on the direction of the trial judge . |
| 22 | Despite their initial ferocity the victorious Agaw were eventually assimilated into the civilization they had sought to destroy , and were converted to Christianity . |
| 23 | Police were eventually called into the Assembly building to restore order , and Hau 's appointment was confirmed by 186 votes to 27 . |
| 24 | The results were eventually published after the war . |
| 25 | The protesters were eventually removed from the club where they continued to demonstrate outside , but no arrests were made . |
| 26 | When District Officers were eventually allowed into the field they were watched like hawks by their senior officers for signs — an indication , it was said , of inaptitude or inexperience — of running things too directly , and promotions were made or denied on the extent to which they seemed , in the words of the Resident , Adamawa , to be ‘ imbued with the true spirit of Indirect Rule ’ . |
| 27 | However , 150 French paratroopers were sent to reinforce the 1,300 legionnaires already stationed in Chad , and over 1,600 French nationals were eventually evacuated from the country . |
| 28 | The accounts were eventually brought before the Review Panel , which took exception to Trafalgar 's decision in the 1991 accounts to revalue and transfer a number of commercial properties from developments for sale , under current assets , to tangible fixed assets . |
| 29 | The important parameters were eventually located in the installation guide which came with the harddisk — a little logic mixed with an educated guess or two provided the other figures and the project was complete . |
| 30 | They were eventually taken off the mountain by rescue teams from Oban and Dumbarton . |