Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The fifth , a woman , was remanded on the same charge yesterday .. |
2 | Therefore , the babies ' body mass curve was calculated in the same manner as for adults , from birth length and birth weight , and this measure was substituted for birth weight in the regression equation . |
3 | Freedom of expression was treated in the same way : ‘ Any man may … say or write whatever he likes , subject to the risk of , it may be , severe punishment if he publishes any statement ( either by word of mouth , in writing or in print ) which he is not legally entitled to make ’ . |
4 | Unlike in the private sector , borrowing for investment was treated in the same way as borrowing to finance current spending ( on labour or raw materials ) . |
5 | Tritsch Tratsch was given on the same programme , being hailed with delight for its humour and for the sparkling dancing of Poole and Luyt as ‘ two brisk young sailors , and Renée Feller as the sprightly object of their affections ’ . |
6 | One patient also had a distal gastric cancer which was resected at the same time as the colonic primary . |
7 | she , she was baptised at the same time as I was , you know , er , the same day , Manchester assembly , that was nineteen seventy four seventy five no , seventy four , yeah |
8 | In my case , I am pleased to say , it was regarded in the same light as full time training . |
9 | A FEW years ago , unemployment and sickness insurance for a mortgage was regarded in the same light as private health insurance is now : fine if you could afford it , but not essential . |
10 | His position was filled by the former chair of the board , Detlev Rohwedder , who was succeeded as chair by Jens Odenwald , chairman of the West German Kaufhof retail stores chain . |
11 | I was tarred with the same brush , to a certain extent . |
12 | Not that it was young Mr Gotobed 's fault , his father was alive then , and in charge of the mine , but Mr Evans says all that family was tarred with the same brush , only thinking of profits . |
13 | I thought about the gin , but that was tarred with the same brush . |
14 | President Jaime Paz Zamora was reported on the same day to have requested that the Congress authorize the presence of US troops in the eastern Beni region , and sought congressional approval for a law to support the presence of foreign troops in the future . |
15 | It was much more elaborate than the first of the famous series of astronomical clocks in Strasbourg Cathedral that was installed about the same time , 1350 . |
16 | Sean Ashby ( Browning Starlets ) was pegged in the same area and his 3–13–4 catch was made up of gudgeon , roach and perch . |
17 | Ben and Viz received equal attention , while dear old Dickens was approached with the same enthusiasm as a postman views a front gate marked ‘ Beware Of The Large , Fierce And Probably Rabid Dog . ’ |
18 | Several weeks later he was approached by the same man and a colleague in a Dungannon street , when he was ‘ explicitly asked to work for and provide information for them . ’ |
19 | Edward Blishen , the presenter , has an enviable gift for sketching in background and perspective , drawing up different strands of what was happening at the same time to make his argument , all with ease . |
20 | You can not deduce from the fact that it was happening at the same time that it was a cause . |
21 | A PUB landlord was attacked by a former customer he had barred days before , a court heard . |
22 | It was rebuilt on the same site in 1870 and united with the National Society . |
23 | It collapsed in 1902 but was rebuilt to the same design . |
24 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
25 | If this was the case , then there must be enough grounds for proper charges , said Mr Bruce , but every enquiry he made , to police , social work , or the Children 's Panel Reporter , Gordon Sloan , was met with the same answer : ‘ Investigations are continuing . ’ |
26 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
27 | The Wimbledon defender will also request a cut in a six-month playing ban , suspended for three years , which was imposed at the same time . |
28 | The vehicle solution was prepared in the same manner . |
29 | Assistant teacher Habib Ben Malek was sentenced in the same trial in 1977 to 20 years ' imprisonment . |
30 | Maha Banat was accused of adultery with Ahmed Hussein al-Zahrani , a Saudi citizen , whom she claims she does not know , and who was sentenced by the same court to three months ' imprisonment and 100 lashes . |