Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children can be encouraged to look back at how they found particular pieces of information and to ask themselves whether this was done in the most efficient way . |
| 2 | This was represented in the very early stages by allocations of new council housing in Seaton Valley to workers of incoming firms on a much more generous basis than a simple ‘ key worker ’ system . |
| 3 | Support for this was centred around the strongly " pro-whaling " nations of Norway , Iceland and Japan . |
| 4 | This was reflected in the relatively low salaries and simple lifestyles of their staff . |
| 5 | Undoubtedly taxation provided the occasion for the revolt ; this was stressed by the best informed contemporary source , the author of the Anonimalle Chronicle , and by the Leicester canon Henry Knighton ( 11 , pp.124 , 135 ) . |
| 6 | They selectively attract a pest to spray deposits ; these were used in the much publicised campaign against the Mediterranean fruit fly in California . |
| 7 | These were classified under the recently repealed Population Registration Act as : |
| 8 | The kitchen had one small window , the parlour two , one looking out over Brodick Bay , the other inland ; joined to this main building were various outhouses , each having a door , a window , a box-bed , a small deal table , a candlestick , and a wash-basin of its own : these were let for the most part to single gentlemen , though now and again she had also lady lodgers . |
| 9 | Others were distinctly modern , looking sharp and raw against the soft colours of their rural backdrop , but all were built with the steeply sloping roofs and heavy timbering that she 'd already come to recognise as typical of the region . |
| 10 | His company moved into the marine and international wireless market , though progress in the latter was hampered by the already well-established submarine-cable companies . |