Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a smell of stale cigarette smoke and some unwashed cups were stacked neatly in the sink , but the room was ferociously clean . |
| 2 | They said whole fields were ripped up into the air ! |
| 3 | Extraordinary as the two operations were , they were propelled along by the belief of many players — both principals and walkers-on — — that the ends were just . |
| 4 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 5 | New roads were developed soon after the arrival of the railway but fortunately the present recreation ground overlooking the sea was preserved from building . |
| 6 | The Belfast methods , on the other hand , were developed primarily for the study of closeknit communities — and indeed it is likely that they are particularly and rather generally suitable for urban or rural communities of this type . |
| 7 | He gave the impression that the agents were to a large extent out of DK 's strict control and that the agents were policed largely on the basis of responding to complaints and taking remedial action where appropriate or possible . |
| 8 | Many more houses were erected mainly by the cement firms themselves . |
| 9 | The peasants ' " redemption dues " were calculated not on the basis of the land which came into their possession but on the basis of the rents and services that they owed under serfdom . |
| 10 | With a heavy heart , Robert followed her towards the smooth , mysterious features of the house , whose windows , on this side , he could now see , were blacked out from the inside . |
| 11 | Two boys were remanded in to the care of the local authority by Leeds youth court last night . |
| 12 | These large abscesses were pointed out by the farm manager to Mrs Brough , who photographed them . |
| 13 | His services were recognized both by the shah , who presented him with a sword , and by the governor-general , Lord Hastings ( Francis Rawden , later first Marquis of Hastings , q.v . ) . |
| 14 | The preliminary analyses of the survey were completed just after the discovery of the error and before corrections could be made . |
| 15 | Scraps of paper looking like old bus tickets were placed neatly on the carpet . |
| 16 | A number of key portfolios were placed directly under the President 's supervision in the form of Ministries-delegate . |
| 17 | the bank were prepared to pay for the business to be purchase only on condition that the home , that the family home was then sold and the proceeds were given straight to the bank , so with that eighty thousand pounds of equity in the property and the purchase fund for the business was about twenty five thousand pounds . |
| 18 | Remarkably , they were given back by the owner without payment . |
| 19 | Numerous prizes , generously donated by sponsors , were given out at the end of the day . |
| 20 | But express instructions were given yesterday excluding the press . |
| 21 | But they were withdrawn immediately after the election , when it seemed likely that interest rates would fall , and succeeded by bonds offering a lower return . |
| 22 | National Guardsmen and military police flown in from the USA to help stem looting in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane were withdrawn gradually towards the end of the year . |
| 23 | were eased away by the warmth of morning . |
| 24 | Relations were eased somewhat by the visit on April 25 , 1990 , of Margaret Thatcher , the UK Prime Minister , who participated in official remembrance ceremonies marking the Gallipoli campaign 75 years earlier during the First World War . |
| 25 | Shooting , explosions and mortar bombs were heard intermittently throughout the day , from scattered locations including the inner city , Fort Amador and San Miguelito . |
| 26 | Rather grudgingly a voice said , ‘ The Prime Minister ’ , and supporting voices were heard all over the room . |
| 27 | Late last night , Tass reported that bursts of automatic fire were heard all around the city as ‘ several tens of thousands of people ’ gathered on Bucharest 's University Square . |
| 28 | Although the returns accruing to a particular film from the Eady Levy , as it was called , were limited both by the size of the box office in any particular year , and that film 's success in the market-place ( the levy was paid out in proportion to a film 's success ) , the promise it offered did make it easier for independents to raise cash . |
| 29 | For many indigenes this meant that their once dependable resources were whittled away to the point of non-sustainability . |
| 30 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |