Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An air traffic control clearance was issued in which the aircraft was cleared to the Goose VOR and maintain 6,000 feet . |
| 2 | 19–2 A meeting of the Water Committee was held at which the principal business was the handing over of money collected . |
| 3 | The comparison that I made in The Independent newspaper was based on what the Secretary of State 's own review had recommended as the number required to run the system . |
| 4 | Enlightenment was urged on me the day I saw the old Jew float to the surface of the deep latrine , how he splashed and struggled into life , and was hoisted out by the jubilant guards , his clothes cleansed by the mire . |
| 5 | Suddenly a mechanism was provided by which the brain ( which may or may not be considered in some way related to the mind ) could intrude on the elementary processes of message reception and transmission . |
| 6 | But when the door was locked behind me the cell was dark for there was neither window nor electric light . |
| 7 | It has not happened since the end of the Second World War , but before the 1987 election , when some commentators were predicting a hung parliament , much thought was given to what the Queen would do about forming a government if they turned out to be right . |
| 8 | Concern was expressed at what the effect would be when attaching a means-tested service to a free one . |
| 9 | Or , in mystic vein , an order of being was glimpsed in which the 1840s , the 1860s , nihilism , Bazarov , found themselves apocalyptically and teleologically disposed — those two polysyllabic adverbs embracing and transcended all nature , including futurity . |
| 10 | Cos you remember last week we accounted for er He was in the world , and although the world was made through him the world did not recognize him . |
| 11 | The instructions which Mr. Tucker gave to the Burnham sub-branch made it clear that the bank was retaining for itself the responsibility of explaining to Mrs. O'Brien the effect and nature of the documents she was to sign . |
| 12 | In the case of ordering YAC probes , a modified distance measure was used in which the influence of each cosmid clone c was weighted in proportion to 1/n c , where n c is the number of YAC probes positive for that cosmid clone . |
| 13 | Evidence from Brean Down , Somerset , is not so clear , but there were drastic changes , and evidence of demolition was followed by what the excavator , A. M. ApSimon , depicts as ‘ squatter occupation ’ . |
| 14 | Her heart was touched by what the duchess had offered her and by what had been asked of herself in return . |
| 15 | But good old butter was replaced by what the label described as ‘ vegetable and animal fat ’ . |