Example sentences of "the [noun] [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chateaubriand , who happened to be visiting Arenenberg was asked by the young author for his opinion of the work , and the great writer graciously suggested that it would be improved if , where the word ‘ people ’ occurred , the Prince were to replace it with ‘ nation ’ . |
| 2 | What we sought to do , in terms of Community competence , in the discussions was to extend it in areas where we thought it was appropriate and to define it more adequately than it has been defined in the past in order to prevent , as far as it is possible to prevent it , that element of creeping competence that so offends many people in this country . |
| 3 | The recommendation for the West was to divide it into three regions : South-west ( Dumfries and Galloway ) ; Central — based on the Falkirk-Stirling area ; and the West or Clyde Valley ( Strathclyde ) . |
| 4 | These were old aims but the intention was to pursue them with greater vigour and effectiveness . |
| 5 | The intention was to reduce it to that rate which would constrain aggregate demand to grow at a rate which could be met by increases in real output . |
| 6 | So we put them all into bin bags and we was trying to carry these bin bags so the wind was taking them like balloons ! |
| 7 | The Left in British politics had never had , nor needed to have , any single clear view about the structure of secondary education : the imperative was to provide it for all , and to provide it free . |
| 8 | ‘ What do you mean , ma'am ? ’ the sergeant grunted suspiciously , over-sensitive in his present mood , and fearful the superintendent was blaming him for some unknown misdemeanour . |
| 9 | The alternative was to give it to them in 50 crates . ’ |
| 10 | And they were both agreed that the thing to do with the club was to use it for their private purposes . |
| 11 | Curiously , if the cider was sour , the practice was to sweeten it by shaking it with some lead shot before storing it in barrels held together by lead bands . |
| 12 | Originally , the plan was to return them to their last known home , on Pitchfork Ranch near the little town of Meeteetsee , Wyoming . |
| 13 | What is , to my mind , incredible , is that he could ever have supposed that the money was being either paid by the plaintiffs or received by the defendants with the intention or on the footing that the defendants were to keep it in any event . |
| 14 | Even as the BeSHT delighted his listeners with his pearls of wisdom , his stunning turns-of-phrase , his aphoristic acuity , so Leonard was learning his own , parallel metier ; the butterfly was following him down the hill . |
| 15 | The girl was studying her as if she was an amusing spectacle and Jenna assumed that she was . |
| 16 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |
| 17 | The Indian was telling him about this little fish that lives in the river and — you can guess the rest ! ! ! |
| 18 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 19 | As for the name , Sam wanted her to be called the Martha and Harry the Bridget , and the only way they could resolve the question was to name her after their favourite place of refreshment , instead . |
| 20 | The lady was holding it like that I run up , I go ooh bang and it goes . |
| 21 | But now the passage of the years was doing it for him . |
| 22 | 381 , 384 ‘ There is no doubt that at common law if a wife chooses wilfully and without justification to live away from her husband she can not , so long as she continues absent , render him liable for the necessaries supplied to her , or for her maintenance by the union , for the reason that she has of her own free will deprived herself of the opportunity which the husband was affording her of being maintained in the home . |
| 23 | Flowers looked at fault , but the happy Town fans chanted ‘ Goddard for England ’ while the band was serenading them during the interval . |
| 24 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 25 | The aim was to transform them into permanent subsistence farmers or labourers . |
| 26 | The aim was to keep them in as long as possible , for without them the people employed to do the menial duties would have no time to relax … |
| 27 | She dried her eyes presently because she realized that the Magistrate was watching her from not far away . |
| 28 | The subsequent chronology of the licences , as well as the varying charges for them , reveal that the king was granting them for political and financial ends , to make friends and raise cash , particularly from the late 1290s when he desperately needed both . |
| 29 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 30 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |