Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] the [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 | It was rebuilt on the same site in 1870 and united with the National Society . |
| 20 | It collapsed in 1902 but was rebuilt to the same design . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The vehicle solution was prepared in the same manner . |
| 24 | Assistant teacher Habib Ben Malek was sentenced in the same trial in 1977 to 20 years ' imprisonment . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And er whether this is true or not is immaterial , it 's part of the family er story that when Lloyd George was importuned by the this family up in . |
| 27 | But his confession to Merymose had a positive effect too , because permission was granted to the former scribe to talk to the bereaved families within the palace compound . |
| 28 | Homosexuality , which was invented in 1869 also from a Greek root ( homo , meaning ‘ same ’ ) , was seen in the same light and its male variety was banned in 1885 . |
| 29 | The abandonment yesterday of unilateral nuclear disarmament ( although not the intention of abandoning Britain 's nuclear deterrent at the earliest opportunity while other countries keep theirs ) was done in the same spirit of moralism which had gone into the banning of the Bomb . |
| 30 | The San Francisco Museum is loaning us their beautiful Dirck Bouts ‘ Madonna and Child ’ that was done from the same cartoon or pattern as ours , the main difference being that theirs has a brocade background and ours is plain . |