Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every town and village , and most large estates , had natural or man-made ponds on which matches were arranged as often as the weather allowed . |
| 2 | John Alderson made a case for the reintroduction of community policing in 1982 ( Alderson 1982 , also see 1979 ) , but its advantages were recognized much earlier when the House of Commons Select Committee on Race Relations examined relations between the police and ethnic minorities in 1972 , and in 1976 a report from the National Police College placed a central emphasis upon it ( Pope 1976 ) . |
| 3 | Two High Court judges upheld the right of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board to refuse payouts to two women because they were sought too long after the abuse took place . |
| 4 | Although she had been seen at the school less frequently over the past few years , rehearsals and contracts were organized so smoothly that the dancers had not noticed her gradual disappearance . |
| 5 | The house and park were made as late as the 1870s . |
| 6 | And when the CEGB 's geologists were sent out to look at the geological substrata , they were harassed as heavily as the waste dumpers had been . |
| 7 | They were squashed even further when the other two joined them for coffee and later in the bar . |
| 8 | Words which appear early in the lists were remembered more easily as the subjects had more opportunity to rehearse these after being read than the rest of the words in the list . |
| 9 | In the UK the CAA , too , had been fully involved in every stage of the investigation , and so it was that all the necessary corrective measures were taken as far as the Boeing 707/300–400 series was concerned and the respective airworthiness authorities were fully informed . |
| 10 | The Histories were begun in the mid-570s and not completed until shortly before Gregory 's death ; the four books on the miracles of St Martin were started slightly earlier and the last of them was still being extended in 593 . |
| 11 | The perceived benefits of fundholding were mentioned more often than the perceived costs . |
| 12 | If the assets of the testator 's estate were not sufficient to pay both his creditors and all the bequests he had left , then first the creditors were satisfied in full , and afterwards the beneficiaries by legacy or trust were paid so far as the estate would allow . |
| 13 | This last was uttered so sharply that the dog at once lay down , uttering a whimper as he rested his head on his paws , dark eyes longingly fixed on the newcomer . |
| 14 | Equipment was checked once more and the Jocks paired off to arrange each other 's camouflage . |
| 15 | Apart from the Ukrainophile Kirillo-Methodian Society , which the regime thought particularly dangerous because of its obsessive concern for the unity of the empire , no circle of intellectuals was treated as harshly as the Petrashevtsy in the period between 1826 and 1848 . |
| 16 | Few of its members , remembering the success of Lloyd George in 1981 , expected to win against the personal appeal of Winston Churchill , who was regarded almost universally as the principal saviour of the country , not only in the crisis of 1940 but in the years of partnership with foreign allies . |
| 17 | This English gate into Shrewsbury was guarded less stringently than the Welsh bridge on the further side , and therefore used more freely , and the drawbridge was lowered from earliest dawn . |
| 18 | Like many Oxford men , he belonged to the strong Socratic tradition in which dialogue was esteemed as highly as the written word . |
| 19 | Of course it was possible the van was parked there only because the man was inside destroying coypu or moles or rats or woodworm , but somehow Adam did n't think so . |
| 20 | A 4″ pipe was built-in between this pond and the top header pool and a 2″ pipe was added just below where the capping stones would be . |
| 21 | Its role was downgraded even further when the Royal Air force 's Transport Command was formed in 1943 , using largely American-built transport aircraft . |
| 22 | Although Cockermouth was leased as early as the thirteenth century , the family 's five Yorkshire manors were still in demesne in 1352 , three of these being leased by 1405 and all by 1416 , while their four Sussex manors were all leased between 1405 and 1416 . |
| 23 | This restriction was applied primarily so that the frequency of growth impairment and its natural history could be determined in an at risk population . |
| 24 | The Spanish Armada was defeated so decisively that the English often reckoned that their command of the sea began then , although it was never secure until the end of the seventeenth century . |
| 25 | The question was answered almost immediately because the man , who had followed Jean along the passage , now pushed past her and entered the kitchen . |
| 26 | In the days of lead type this was done almost automatically because the pieces all had to fit together without any gaps . |
| 27 | Gen. Francisco Sánchez González , the Chief of Police , was named as Bernal 's replacement but was forced to step down when it was revealed shortly afterwards that the police payroll had been inflated by the inclusion of " phantom " policemen . |
| 28 | Paleontology had always had a geographical dimension , and this was exploited more thoroughly as the exploration of the fossil record became possible on a world-wide scale . |
| 29 | I did n't stay there long ; I was told very forcibly that the job had to be done and to get the hell out of his cabin . |
| 30 | Like ‘ violons ’ , this is a term that in the 17th century was used more broadly than the single word ‘ oboe ’ suggests . |