Example sentences of "[adv] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholson 's close friend Bruce Dern saw this as one of the developing problems with what seemed to be heading towards a husband and wife relationship ; with two people in the same business — as had been the case with Sandra and Mimi — the pressures on their life together were aggravated by the success of one member of the partnership , while the other was still struggling . |
| 2 | It was not until the following Monday that the affidavits on which Julia had worked so hard and for so long were presented to the court . |
| 3 | Many different opinions on the desirability and philosophy of Article 36 bis were expressed within the International Law Commission . |
| 4 | Many of the older generation coming from a rural background had had no opportunity for training and so were limited in the type of employment open to them . |
| 5 | Four of these were members of the networks under observation , but lived in neighbouring townships and so were excluded from the quantitative analysis which concerned itself with the known-unknown ratio in specific townships . |
| 6 | There was concern that ships from other countries , especially Spain , were registering as British ships and so were included in the UK fishing quota . |
| 7 | How long the dollar could be defended and to what extent it was actually in the interests of US capital to do so were resolved by the crisis which followed . |
| 8 | A happy , approachable Oliver Stone is a new phenomenon indeed — he is no a man known for his relaxed attitude on set , and the actors in Platoon especially were pushed to the limit . |
| 9 | The rooms inside were stuffed with the loot from Francis 's expeditions into Italy ; tapestries , more statues , gold and silver artefacts , jewelled vases , and the softest carpets of pure wool in various hues . |
| 10 | By 1887 over 300 people from Britain alone were wintering in the island . |
| 11 | The Yasa provided for the settlement of disputes and affairs of honour only between the races of the True People , for they alone were equipped with the talons with which the kanly — formal mortal combat — was fought . |
| 12 | When Germany was defeated in 1945 , 400 tons of material from the German foreign office alone were seized by the Allied authorities . |
| 13 | On the other hand , the increase in the importance of state benefits must have tended to reduce the inequality in the economic circumstances of the elderly that hitherto was determined in the labour market . |
| 14 | However , not enough was known of the biology of stocks to make control measures credible or effective , and whalers in international competition for declining stocks had no alternative but to press for the largest allowable quota , and hunt at maximum efficiency to attain the largest share . |
| 15 | It was said that the report had advocated crude measures for dealing with a complex problem , and that not enough was known about the patterns of library use and the effects of browsing , literature obsolescence , or other factors , to put the future of university libraries at risk by wholesale withdrawals from stock at this stage of their development . |
| 16 | In the 1980s much was achieved in the economy and many essential and fundamental changes had to be made after the IMF was called in in the late 1970s when Labour was in power . |
| 17 | Indeed , in the early stages of the contest much was made of the lightweight nature of the public support Heseltine received ( it was not until the run up to the second ballot , when Mrs Thatcher was out of the race , that he received public support from Lawson and Howe ) . |
| 18 | During his trial much was made of the way he had abused his position as a doctor . |
| 19 | Nothing is barred in the crime novel , however much was barred in the old days of the detective story when , for instance , sexual relations often seemed confined to one person expressing just the discreetest interest in another . |
| 20 | Long was supported by the bulk of the English county members but by few of the party 's men of talent . |
| 21 | The all-important class of landowners especially was inflamed against the king 's personal regime . |
| 22 | Stalin 's perception of the Soviet Union as encircled militarily was aggravated by the gradual development of an American policy of military containment of the USSR . |
| 23 | For example , the pie chart below was produced by the BBC . |
| 24 | Even the minimum tax proposal described below was estimated by the Joint Congressional Committee on Taxation as likely to raise only $1bn over four years . |
| 25 | The creek immediately below was bobbing with the brightly painted Maltese fishing-boats , the luzzu , and the dghajjes , the bigger water-taxis , rocking gently on aquamarine water . |
| 26 | And I mean it was er I accept that it 's hardly that that Russia perhaps was intervening in the interests of er of of erm of of of of er Russian policy in that area . |
| 27 | The proportion of absentee canons at each is a good indicator of royal exploitation , which obviously was directed at the better endowed prebends . |
| 28 | Moely was swimming after the boat and I shouted to him : |
| 29 | The way to do so was demonstrated by the Dutch sellers in Aluminium Industrie Vaasen BV v. Romalpa Aluminium Ltd. ( 1976 C.A. ) . |
| 30 | So was dealing with the repercussions when we distributed the finally agreed programme . |