Example sentences of "[prep] [det] years [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cultural formation , at this level , is still alternative , but in the crisis of those years it was both necessarily involved in political activities , with direct and dangerous consequences , and in an overlap between what might in a different period be seen as separate kinds of practice ; as Godwin justly observed in 1794 , ‘ the humble novelist might be shown to be constructively a traitor ’ . |
| 2 | During these years he was elected FRIBA ( 1850 ) , freeman of the City of London ( 1851 ) , member of the Company of Fishmongers ( 1852 ) , and associate of the Society of Civil Engineers ( 1858 ) . |
| 3 | For many years they were regarded as colonial coelenterates , but it is now certain that they are unrelated to the jellyfish and their allies , and in fact are distant cousins to a small group of tube-dwelling organisms with little fossil record , which belong to the minor phylum Hemichordata . |
| 4 | For many years they were known only from fossil representatives and were believed to be extinct . |
| 5 | For many years they were barely on grunting , let alone speaking terms . |
| 6 | For many years they were thought to be adult creatures , given a special name , ammocoete , and classified as obvious relatives of the lancelet . |
| 7 | For many years I was convinced we stayed with a lady by the name of Marie Bonaparte . |
| 8 | For many years I was conscious that I was the first woman in my very large extended family to do this . |
| 9 | For many years I was a governor of Port Slade School and Comprehensive College and I thought that was a very impressive school , as I am sure you would agree . |
| 10 | For many years he was an active member of the Scottish Religious Advisory Committee at the BBC and was a broadcaster on radio and television in Scotland . |
| 11 | For many years he was a Methodist Local Preacher , and always walked to his appointments anywhere in the Circuit , so that he did not cause anyone else to work on a Sunday . |
| 12 | For many years he was a successful businessman . |
| 13 | For many years he was a Wesleyan Methodist , but then he turned towards the Church of England . |
| 14 | For many years he was a member of the town council of Lincoln and in 1858–9 was chief magistrate . |
| 15 | For many years he was a member of the president 's committee , and was an examiner for the triple qualification and the fellowship . |
| 16 | Lord Stanley Clinton-Davis is a former European Commissioner and for many years he was in the House . |
| 17 | One of the first to join the society was Vincent d'Indy , who became its secretary in 1876 ; indeed , for many years he was effectively its head . |
| 18 | For many years it was considered that tea-bags were filled only with tea dust , the fine residue left after the sorting and packaging of tea , and that the drink obtained by using bags was therefore of very inferior quality . |
| 19 | Considerable attention has been focused on the distinction between causing grievous bodily harm ( section 18 ) and inflicting grievous bodily harm ( section 20 ) : for many years it was believed that the more restrictive word ‘ inflict ’ meant that section 20 required proof of a sufficiently direct action by D to constitute an assault , but the House of Lords has now decided that there can be an ‘ infliction ’ of GBH without proof of an assault . |
| 20 | For many years it was a centre for cave exploration but was recently acquired by the Royal Signals for adventure and training . |
| 21 | For many years it was accepted that two-tone fish ( it occurs with other species , but rarely ) are the result of winter hibernation , the dark portion of the fish being the part that is buried in bottom mud . |
| 22 | For many years it was thought that the wreck was a Spitfire , but after delving through archives at the RAF Museum along with information gleaned from various specialist publications , it was discovered that the aircraft was a Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk flown by a Canadian pilot , Harold Fraser-English of 400 Squadron , operating out of Weston Zoyland . |
| 23 | For many years it was described in the Fell and Rock Climbing Club guide as having ‘ one very small and easy pitch about halfway up . ’ |
| 24 | For many years it was supposed that nothing should be revealed about the bargainer 's intentions . |
| 25 | Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours . |
| 26 | For many years it was thought that in the absence of express provision in the original constitution the continued equality of all shares was a fundamental condition which could not be abrogated by an alteration of the articles so as to allow the issue of shares preferential to those already issued . |
| 27 | Personally , from a personal view during those years I was erm going for a neutral stance on the conflict because it did n't help any cause and it only hurt and harmed the peoples of both Iraq and Iran . |
| 28 | In these years he was one of a few markedly royalist bishops among a generally Montfortian episcopate . |
| 29 | In these years he was frequently a proctor for prelates and religious institutions in Parliament . |
| 30 | Wherein their Superior Effects for the cure of gun-shot wounds … ‘ , but in those years it was still an uncouth place , better fitted to receive the injured soldiery than sickly , comfort-loving bourgeois . |