Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [adj] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every note had vitality , yet every note was joined to all the others . |
| 2 | A great welcome was given to all the visitors by the Rotary Club , by the K-Post 11 of the American Legion Auxiliary , by the British Ceremony Committee and by the Mayor . |
| 3 | Responsibility was claimed by both the Forces armées occidentales ( FAO ) and the Mouvement pour la démocratie et le développement ( MDD ) . |
| 4 | It was reported in all the newspapers . |
| 5 | Though I could n't go so far as to say that service was included as all the waiters seemed interested in was getting the lights off so they could dance with Sorrel . |
| 6 | And you only mentioned that briefly , once , at management team meeting and it was included in all the discussions , you know Ray was the first one , you know . |
| 7 | A ban on hunting was imposed by all the governments of countries and states in which the Indian tiger occurred . |
| 8 | Once SAVE 's case for the significance of the building was made , its retention as part of the London scene was accepted by all the parties involved . |
| 9 | Accordingly , after the initial investigations , it was accepted by all the parties concerned that it would be inappropriate to pursue the microform aspects of the hybrid system . |
| 10 | minutes he was looking through all the advertisements for civil engineering . |
| 11 | But already the 11.54 was steaming into the station , and Perks was looking in all the windows . |
| 12 | Similar controls could not be identified for the women who had had hysterectomy , so comparison was made with all the women who had an intact uterus and an intact gall bladder ( n=950 , including 41 with asymptomatic gall stones ) . |
| 13 | By the time another survey was made in 1603 the signs of change in Willingham were apparent . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I was gaping at all the knick-knacks ! ’ she smiled up at him . |
| 15 | By the mid-1980s , Elena 's birthday , though not her age , was celebrated with all the effusions associated with her husband 's . |
| 16 | A statement was agreed by all the members of the Security Council . |
| 17 | On the first point about the making of local plans , we 're hearing that this policy has the great support , in fact was requested by all the districts in the county . |
| 18 | So after the opening I ran out of the dressing room to where Dad , in his red waistcoat , was waiting with all the others . |
| 19 | Hedgerows existed in Saxon times and by the time Domesday was commissioned in 1086 the boundaries of parishes were so firmly fixed that William 's Norman officials were able to calculate within close limits , the exact area of thousands of settlements and their capacity to contribute to the royal exchequer ! |
| 20 | He found now he was speaking to all the eagles in the Cages and that they were listening to him . |
| 21 | He would make the arrogant assumption that she was complaining about all the times separation would deprive her of him . |
| 22 | They had brought tales with them from England of witchcraft and the King 's concern ; an Essex man who had come with the Hopewell on the return voyage recalled how when he was a child , a pricker was calling on all the households of the nearby villages to discover the sources of a murrain on the flocks . |
| 23 | In these studies , a minor decrease in PEG concentration ( signifying fluid accumulation in the bag ) was noted with both the solutions tested . |
| 24 | On that basis of the civil law , the majority of the Supreme Court of Canada held in Montreal Tramways v. Leveille [ 1933 ] 4 D.L.R. 337 , that when a child not actually born at the time of an accident was subsequently born alive and viable , it was clothed with all the rights of action which it would have had if actually in existence at the date of the accident to the mother . |
| 25 | The problem of comparing different samples drawn from the lists was dealt with by developing a reference test which was administered to all the pupils participating in the research . |
| 26 | Glad of the diversion , I said , ‘ Someone told me today that the bad weather was caused by all the cannon-balls discharged on the Field of Waterloo last year . ’ |
| 27 | Anyway , and it was all such a , a resounding success so I , I was regaled with all the details of what she , and in what she had indulged and er , she said she went in more for the pi er she did n't go in for erm aromatherapy and the reflexology and the facials and the manicures and things , she went in for loads of bicycling and exercising and er and steam baths and things . |
| 28 | Firstly , H pylori with homogeneously distributed chromatinic and cytoplasmic content within the bacterial body ( Fig 1 ) , which was associated with all the patterns of epithelial state and was seen in all the examined ultrastructural sections ; this pattern , however , was prominent in the first pattern of contact with gastric epithelium presenting normal looking epithelial cells . |
| 29 | At the same meeting an asylum convention was signed by all the members except Denmark under which each asylum case would be handled by only one member-state and thereby end the so-called " orbiting " of refugees from one country to another . |
| 30 | If there is enough to suggest that it is more probable that the offence took place , that is enough for the action that was taken by all the agencies involved in Orkney . |