Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to him that if this were over the Front he would be a gift for even the stupidest German pilot . |
| 2 | Speaking of hearing in Gertrude Stein 's prose the ‘ hypnotic ’ ‘ rhythms ’ of ‘ the saxophone ’ he concluded that if this were of the future , then the future was ‘ of the barbarians ’ . |
| 3 | Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith . |
| 4 | Few were in the market for the Kuwaiti shares , but few were in the market at all with such an overhang : only 2.9m shares changed hands compared with Tuesday 's 30m . |
| 5 | Few were in the market for the Kuwaiti shares , but few were in the market at all with such an overhang : only 2.9m shares changed hands compared with Tuesday 's 30m . |
| 6 | A few were in the hands of private companies , but the majority were owned either by the Federal or state governments . |
| 7 | Quite a few were in the printing and paper trades as folders , envelope makers , envelope stampers etc . |
| 8 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 9 | Some of the organisations studied had upgraded the status of large numbers of their temporary workers for this reason in the past , some were in the process of doing so . |
| 10 | Surgical causes were mostly postoperative but some were in the category of acute surgical admissions . |
| 11 | Half of the sentences were of the form B because A ( as in the above example ) , and half were of the form Because A , B ( e.g. , Because the sun started to shine , the snowman started to melt ) . |
| 12 | Of 24,200 workers thrown on the dole last month , more than half were from the once prosperous region . |
| 13 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ This was about the time The Beatles were just starting and they were considered to have long hair , but if you look at the pictures of them in those days , they had almost crew-cuts compared to David 's which was honestly long , bright yellow , bleached blonde from a bottle . |
| 14 | This was about the only use for insect repellent , as the mosquitoes seemed to have become hardened to the hundreds of tourists who had trekked through before us . |
| 15 | This was about the only thing that ‘ Damnation Derek ’ got right ! |
| 16 | information about a particular piece , so , Simon and I sort of , we were talking kind of fairly casually about that , but erm , what we agreed to do is , this was about the time when we first got the equipment I think and it , it occurred to me that you , and I 've checked this now , that you can actually plug a cassette , you know , a Walkman type of player into either the microphone for the |
| 17 | This was about the year 1200 ( the charter is undated ) , but there is the fishpond today . |
| 18 | The council insisted on erecting another — this was about the time I arrived — and it got delivered in handy , fit-together sections . |
| 19 | He was the first big money(950,000) signning by Allan Clark , personally I think Clark just signed him because everybody else was spending absurd amounts money on crap , this was about the time malcolm allison was spending 1 to 2 million quid every other week on unknown bits of shit , so clarke thought lets join in . |
| 20 | I really I was seeing her , because I was n't happy about the publicity , the way it had described audio description I did n't think it was good and Alex was unhappy about the way they were describing some language things , which cos they 're not doing erm , and we just went in and he just said right just , erm well I 've kept you some seats for a performance on the sixteenth of September , this was about the |
| 21 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 22 | The United goal never really looked in any great danger … this was about the only lapse … |
| 23 | ‘ This was at the church just down the road from here ? ’ |
| 24 | Turning to Europe , Mr Ridley said that the Government was pressing other EC countries to reduce their industrial subsidies , for this was at the heart of a genuine single market after 1992 . |
| 25 | Health authority staff , not unreasonably , felt that this was at the cost of forgoing routine casework support for a wide range of people ( horizontal efficiency ) and from their point of view , therefore , the developmental role of the CMHTs represented an unacceptable opportunity cost . |
| 26 | Coincidentally this was at the height of the News International affair , which undoubtedly provided a severe test for the Code and its guidelines . |
| 27 | This was at the time the government introduced conscription , when the travelling medical boards had instructions to discharge unfit men , to take the place of those called up . |
| 28 | It did launch a general economic survey in 1953 , but this was at the request of the Special Council of Ministers , itself responding to national government worries about a slump in demand . |
| 29 | This was at the limit of the effective range of canister but he could afford to wait no longer ; his men were so weak , their movements so sluggish that they would need every extra second if they were to re-load and fire another charge before the enemy reached the ramparts . |
| 30 | This was at the language school in Leningrad , with all the lessons in English . |