Example sentences of "[was/were] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | would be unwise for us in analysing our 1983 data to treat the unemployed in the same way as in 1972 without at least considering whether this might not seriously distort our results ; more specifically , it would seem important to examine what effect it would have on he 1983 mobility [ results ] if unemployment , or at all events long-term unemployment , were itself regarded as a mobility ‘ status ’ or outcome . |
| 2 | It was not only that animals were suffering to their detriment , but their abusers were themselves brutalised in the process . |
| 3 | What was unexpected , at least by Adobe , was that Microsoft , who were themselves looking for an outline font technology for Presentation Manager , would side with Apple and agree to adopt TrueType . |
| 4 | The guilty cats were themselves living in the wild . |
| 5 | The miners and their families were themselves implicated in the creation of their coalfield culture , through the operation of hegemonic processes by which relations of domination and subdomination came to imbue the entire lived experience — the social practices , relationships , expectations , and dominant values . |
| 6 | While it was widely acclaimed by public sector authorities , voluntary organizations and professionals — though inevitably with some interagency squabbling and professional quibbling-its proposed ‘ agenda for action ’ was perceived as even more far-reaching and revolutionary than the Audit Commission report , although in fact many of Griffiths ' recommendations were themselves derived from the Audit Commission 's findings , translated into practical proposals . |
| 7 | Unfortunately Glam was himself bested by the GHOST and he , too , became a surly and violent ‘ walker after death ’ . |
| 8 | … that the legendary soldier , Pyrrhus , whose many battles were characterised by massive casualties , was himself killed by a tile hurled by a lone woman ? |
| 9 | Not only did it make it possible to conceive of the settlement , a succession of trusts , where a trust was set up in favour of a beneficiary who was himself charged with a trust in favour of a further beneficiary , but it also allowed trusts to be set up on intestacy , which led to the growth of an advanced system of property disposition on death which had absolutely no connection with a will . |
| 10 | You will hear how Farmer Dune was himself eaten by a group of pigs . |
| 11 | Justin Lekhanya , who seized power in 1986 from the then Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan , was himself led into the studio of Radio Lesotho by troops on April 30 and made to broadcast his own resignation as Chairman of the six-member ruling Military Council . |
| 12 | Macdonald was himself expelled from the country , while Lin Jie was imprisoned for his alleged ‘ treason ’ . |
| 13 | Robinson established a close relationship with Monck and was himself returned to the Convention Parliament for London . |
| 14 | Benedict , at less than ten years of age , was himself delivered into the care of the mother he had not seen for almost two years . |
| 15 | For a start , 80% of its staff come from the former graphics system builder , which was itself born of a marriage made in hell between bitter rivals Ardent Computer Inc and Stellar Computer Corp back in 1989 . |
| 16 | Russia , she argued , was no longer the gendarme of Europe ; increasingly ramshackle and transformed by rapid industrialization , it was itself faced with the threat of revolution . |
| 17 | The opera , by Malcolm Williamson , was itself based on a novel of the same name by Patrick Leigh Fermor , who wove a complicated plot of romance and intrigue against the colourful background of a sultry Caribbean town in the midst of a hectic carnival , while above the town a volcano rumbled threateningly . |
| 18 | The basic dimension of a mill was its width which determined both the length and the height , and which was itself determined by the length of the cotton-spinning ‘ mule ’ . |
| 19 | Although negotiations on arms reductions were about to resume in Geneva when Gorbachev assumed the general secretaryship , Cruise and Pershing-II weapons had already been deployed in Western Europe following the NATO ‘ dual track ’ decision of 1979 ( this was itself represented as a response to the Soviet decision to replace its ageing SS-4 and -5 missiles in Eastern Europe with more modern SS-20s ) . |
| 20 | The stringent exclusion criteria in trials of antithrombotic therapy ensured that less than 10% of those with AF were actually considered suitable for randomisation , and in one study , being over 75 was itself regarded as a contraindication to anticoagulation until later into the enrolment phase . |
| 21 | The shears were sharpened on a stone which was turned by a wheel , which was itself turned by a handle . |
| 22 | The latter ( which is not internationally recognized other than by Turkey ) was declared in November 1983 by the Assembly of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus , which was itself created after the occupation by Turkish troops of about 40 per cent of the island 's area in July 1974 . |
| 23 | With the formation of the coalition in May 1940 , the central organisation was itself weakened by the absorption of the two leading officers of the Research Department into the government : Arthur Greenwood took office in Churchill 's Cabinet and Grant McKenzie was recruited to assist Attlee in the latter 's government tasks . |
| 24 | As the most recent poll tax was itself reduced as a result of the raising of VAT by 2.5 per cent , where are benefits that should accrue from what was supposed to be a ‘ new ’ progressive property tax ? |
| 25 | Ironically , then , the trajectory which today produces the Marxist argument that poststructuralism neglects history was itself initiated by the claim that Marxism itself had been invalidated by history . |
| 26 | Much jewellery , especially gemstones and hairpins , was itself used as a vehicle for portraiture . |
| 27 | Pappy and a dark little girl who was herself leaning against a lifeboat . |
| 28 | Eliza Waters , who was herself venturing upon a cold , would have found it difficult to agree more . |