Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roughness and sheer wild irrationality of Lewis 's domestic persona were matched by the genuinely warm-hearted impulse which had led him to befriend Havard in the first place . |
| 2 | The framework for the investigation of ‘ sensory coding ’ was established in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , when the business of explaining perception was transformed into the more specific project of correlating the physical properties of perceived objects and events with patterns of activity in the nervous system and the latter with the subjective properties of the experience : |
| 3 | Hall 's speed was matched against the slightly greater power of Baddeley . |
| 4 | Hall 's speed was matched against the slightly greater power of Baddeley . |
| 5 | The defendant was convicted of the more serious offence . |
| 6 | But the movie was stolen by the then little known Marlene Dietrich , playing ‘ naughty Lola ’ the cabaret girl of the Blue Angel nightclub , who destroys the life of a respectable schoolteacher ( Jannings ) . |
| 7 | PLAYER OF THE TOURNAMENT TO MARK the 21st anniversary of the Benson & Hedges Cup , a special trophy was created for the most consistent player of the 1992 tournament . |
| 8 | And the salesman or agent was cited as the most common source of information about the terms of their credit agreement — more than twice as often , for example , as the contract itself . |
| 9 | The strained relationship between prison governors and the Home Office Prison Department was overshadowed by the even more turbulent staff relations between management and prison officers which came to a head in widespread industrial action in 1978 . |
| 10 | Morice was admitted to the strongly Calvinist Middle Temple in 1558 and in 1565 he was sharing chambers with his future colleague in the Commons , Edward Lewkenor . |
| 11 | This effect was used in the very early cameras , which did not have a lens but produced an image by admitting light through a pinhole . |
| 12 | The target set by NATO for Britain was nine to ten regular and territorial divisions ( in 1954 the figure was raised to the even more impracticable level of nine of each by D-day plus 30 ) . |
| 13 | The caecum was considered to be reached only if the light of the instrument was seen in the right lower quadrant , the base of the appendix was visualised , and the ileocaecal valve was seen . |
| 14 | Throughout dinner and afterwards , an entertaining cabaret was provided by the well known ‘ Country Dawn ’ band with vocalist Lew Benedict . |
| 15 | Until the end of the month David Zwirner , son of the Cologne gallery magnate Rudolph Zwirner , shows a video installation called ‘ hors-champs ’ by Stan Douglas , a young Vancouver artist whose work was seen at the most recent ‘ Documenta ’ . |
| 16 | In time , the iron drilling chisel was superseded by the much tougher steel , though for many years in the interim , mine smiths steeled , or tipped , the iron jumpers with a steel chisel edge . |
| 17 | Many early traditions , and the Jewish , Christian , and Islamic religions , held that the universe was created in the fairly recent past . |
| 18 | Yet although attempts were made to assure the British public that telephone-tapping was conducted in the most exceptional and in the most highly controlled circumstances , it was suspected by some that the practice was very different . |
| 19 | For the old fear of the mob was intensified by the now much greater possibility of the people obtaining real political power and political rights . |
| 20 | Once up and running , the equipment was put to the most rigorous of tests almost immediately — catering for a banquet with over 300 guests . |
| 21 | The maintenance of this posture was ensured by the generally rightward shift of French cabinets between 1936 and 1939 , interrupted only by Blum 's shortlived second government in early 1938 when aid was briefly resumed . |
| 22 | The moral connotation was accentuated by the always at least implicit use of the term to contest , to resist contemporary claims of state . |
| 23 | The growth in the provision made by Douglas-Smith and Hampden Jackson in the year before the war was endangered by the rapidly diminishing availability of part-time tutors after September 1939 . |
| 24 | The limited nature of government response to the process of national reform was explained by the relatively lower level of attention which was paid to curriculum than to mechanisms of money . |
| 25 | Population : 1,566,000 ( 0.5% of USSR total ) ; Registered electorate : 299,681 ( registration was organized in the predominantly Russian towns in the north-east ) ; Turnout : 74.2% ; Yes : 95% ; No : 4.5% . |
| 26 | IN FEBRUARY and LCCI Certificate of Centre Registration was presented to the newly registered London School of Public Relations ( LSPR ) in Jakarta by Marketing Manager of the LCCIEB . |
| 27 | This year 's conference was focused on the far reaching issue of international debt , and thus was directly relevant for my involvement in CA 's Debt Working Group and the wider Debt Crisis Network that links interested UK NGOs . |
| 28 | But their importance was overlaid by the less formal and increasingly numerous letters of the type found in the state papers , the Privy Council 's register , and private collections : letters that conveyed information , advice , admonition , and informal orders ; documents that were not bound by the rigid formularies of legal requirement . |
| 29 | This was consistent with the philosophy of local government , in which owner-occupation was seen as the most efficient way of stabilising a neighbourhood . |
| 30 | By the end of the 1930s the idea of a national scheme of family allowances had gained support in many quarters , although opinion was divided about the most appropriate kind of scheme . |