Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the provision made was in the form of public sector over spill , particularly at Longbenton , but also within Wallsend and Tyne mouth County Borough . |
| 2 | What the advancing Germans occupied were for the most part clusters of shell-holes , where isolated groups of men lived and slept and died defending their ‘ position ’ with grenade and pick-helve . |
| 3 | The entire replica fleet aboard the carrier flown was from the deck into the rising sun of the east in some of the most visually stunning scenes of the film . |
| 4 | The first record of the term ‘ long-firm fraud ’ which Levi uncovers was in a journal of 1869 , while the obtaining of goods under the false pretence that one had an honest and solvent business is an activity with a much longer history . |
| 5 | The first of these disputes to emerge was in the Caucasus , where the most serious civil disturbances in Soviet post-war history took place between Armenians and Azerbaijanis over the disputed territorial enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 6 | Although units shipped were at a record high , last year 's drastic price-cutting was much in evidence . |
| 7 | He was aware that what exactly the words meant was in a curious way less urgently important than the necessity of uttering them . |
| 8 | The other parties represented were from the France unie grouping , from either the Mouvement des radicaux de gauche ( MRG — Left Radical Movement , Emile Zuccarelli pres. ) or the Union pour la démocratie française ( UDF — Union for French Democracy , Valéry Giscard d'Estaing ch . ) . |
| 9 | As these commodities had to be kept perfectly dry at all times the barges used were of the soundest construction and were always well maintained . |
| 10 | Instead of increasing grants during the year if prices rose or wage settlements reached were over the original target , the grant was fixed whatever happened . |
| 11 | Mr McCormick submitted that if any one of the mother 's reasons was possibly valid then it could not be said that the mother 's refusal to consent was outside the reasonable band . |
| 12 | The first device found was in a toy shop . |
| 13 | If they were looking for more cancer then surely the place to look was at the next vulnerable point ? |
| 14 | Another point raised was about an area for books for sale . |
| 15 | The obvious place to start was with the known agitators and trouble-makers . |
| 16 | The very first sortie that I did when the war started was with No 77 Squadron in a Whitley to take pamphlets to Germany , flying in at the top end near Kiel and going throughout the Ruhr spreading these horrors of war on the germans telling them " you are wicked naughty Germans and if you do n't mend your ways Hamish will come back tomorrow night and drop some more paper on you " . |
| 17 | ‘ I am satisfied that there are no grounds on which I can say that these charges are bad , but with regard to the equity of redemption I am satisfied on the evidence that what Mrs. Wardman did was at the request of and in reliance on her daughter , and under her influence . |
| 18 | No there was a vision and I think the , the Apostle had was of the third heaven |
| 19 | And thirdly the inducement in some countries for employers to federate was as a result of actual or threatened state intervention in the employment relationship , or sometimes because of the growing complexities of the legislative framework under which employers had to operate . |
| 20 | The problems associated with the development of the British atomic bomb for the V-bombers to carry were of a different order of magnitude . |
| 21 | Dior scored a recent success with the launch of Dune , which industry sources say was among the most popular lines at Christmas . |
| 22 | Although comparisons of fixed doses of drugs have limitations , the doses of propranolol and nifedipine used were in the middle of their therapeutic ranges . |
| 23 | The price proposed was on the open market and Stuttgart was happy to offer it . |
| 24 | In Pura , a village in Kamataka , Professor Amulva Reddy and his colleagues from the Indian Institute of Science found that 96 per cent of the wood that poor families burned was in the form of twigs . |
| 25 | The condition which the court imposed was in the very terms subsequently incorporated in paragraph 33 of Buckley J. 's order . |
| 26 | The dental surgery where his Mum worked was on the outskirts of Thirkett . |
| 27 | Minor aircraft snags encountered were of no concern as these would be rectified by the previously-noted maintenance crews under the command of S/L Hughes who were scheduled to sail with the vessel . |
| 28 | That old smarty pants Dr Samuel Johnson was fond of saying that a woman preaching was like a dog standing on hind legs — it was not done well but it was surprising to find it done at all . |
| 29 | The example given was of a tenant against whom an order for eviction had been made securing further time in residence by appealing . |
| 30 | I like to think I am broad-minded , but the language my father used was beyond the pale , and all because he could n't have a shave ! |