Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time the tax that banks deducted from interest payments to depositors was passed on to the taxmen each quarter . |
| 2 | In 1749 for the first time a single system of tactics was laid down for the entire army , while in 1765 the Hofkriegsrath assumed the power to appoint to all ranks above that of captain and from 1776 an organized State military transport corps began to be built up . |
| 3 | Which is where everything starts to fuck up , because the moment we turn our attention to Herr Mayer he tells us that the money he used to pay the Iranians was put up by the son of a well-known local citizen . ’ |
| 4 | As with most of the Doctor Who stories of this period , the job of building all the special hardware and models was farmed out to the Shawcraft firm of prop-builders . |
| 5 | An action begun in Glasgow for possession of the books , papers and effects was turned down on the grounds that the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was not registered in Scotland and that the complaint had therefore been raised " without title or authority " , though these effects were , claimed Shinwell , later handed over " for the sake of peace and quiet " . |
| 6 | The form of those prayers was laid down in the teaching of the rabbis , and we can glimpse it in the story of the Pharisee and the Publican . |
| 7 | In 1988 a Franco-German research programme for the preservation of historic monuments was set up at the fifty-second summit meeting between the two countries . |
| 8 | A kindergarten housing asylum-seeking refugees was burned down in the northern city of Greifswald . |
| 9 | A MINER killed when he was crushed between two coal wagons was forced back down the pits to save his pension . |
| 10 | The relationship between body posture and suppressed past trauma or emotions was touched on in the section dealing with cervical reintegration . |
| 11 | Sequencing of DNA fragments subcloned into M13 vectors was carried out by the method of Sanger et al ( 25 ) , using a modified T7 DNA polymerase ( Sequenase , United States Biochemical Corporation ) . |
| 12 | The existence of both acute and chronic illnesses was ruled out on the basis of a complete anamnesis and full clinical and biological examination including routine haematological counts , serum glycaemia , total cholesterol , triglycerides , and renal and liver functions tests ( Technicon SMA-20 Autoanalyzer ) . |
| 13 | PLEASE CONTINUE , those of you who have difficulty are reminded that a list of fundraising ideas was sent out with the last notes and we would hope that the areas would get together and hold rallies and/or cheese and wine evenings/coffee mornings etc . |
| 14 | Yet , not all this increase in bulk costs was passed on to the consumers in retail tariffs . |
| 15 | A bill to legalize the marriage of Jews and Christians was thrown out by the Hungarian Diet in 1883 . |
| 16 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 17 | The problem of social role One particular difficulty which is liable to beset participant observation studies was touched on in the previous paragraph ; it concerns the social role allocated to the fieldworker as a consequence of his or her age , sex , ethnicity or other socially significant attributes . |
| 18 | As the full impact of these figures was borne in on the DES , it reacted by successively cutting back teacher-training places in the colleges of education . |
| 19 | The chronology of geomagnetic reversals was extended back into the Mesozoic and this together with the dating of ocean floor sediments enabled the age of large areas of oceanic crust to be determined . |
| 20 | The roll of eleven names was called out by the coroner 's officer . |
| 21 | The National Council for Vocational Qualifications was set up by the Government . |
| 22 | A pilot course to teach community interpreter training techniques was set up at the Polytechnic of Central London last year . |
| 23 | Even the inheritance of acquired characters was taken up as the centrepiece for a self-consciously anti-Darwinian movement known as ‘ neo-Lamarckism ’ . |
| 24 | Under the persuasion of the Bow Street Runners , information was wrung from them about a meeting of the Wokingham Blacks , and a complete troop of Horse Grenadiers was drafted down to the forest . |
| 25 | The specifications of November 1939 became a reality just 43 years ago , when a CW pump evacuated model with sealing wax joints was switched on for the first time at the end of February 1940 , and operated successfully . |
| 26 | The drive against corporations was carried out in the same spirit ; the only reason why the Whigs and Nonconformists had grown so influential in corporation politics was because the Corporation Act of 1661 had not been properly enforced . |
| 27 | A series of tests was carried out among the prostitutes who came voluntarily to venereal-disease clinics in late 1989 . |
| 28 | It may be , then , that the idea of the circular tombs was brought in by the immigrants who arrived in Crete from Anatolia at the beginning of the bronze age . |
| 29 | The background to cuts was set out in the 1976 White paper on public Expenditure ( Cmnd 6393 ) : ‘ Popular expectations for improved public services and welfare programmes have not been matched by growth in output or by willingness to forgo improvements in private living standards in favour of these programmes . ’ |
| 30 | Flowers was injured out of the England Game which will be a help too . |