Example sentences of "[vb past] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if his reputation as one of the great Kings of French history is anything to go by , then the means he used were justified by the end , the destruction of the Angevin Empire . |
| 2 | Some of the antibodies we used were studied at the international workshop on blood group antibodies at Paris , 1987 . |
| 3 | Added to these , all the bolts and nuts used were forged in the Smithy and threaded on the screwing gang in the machine shop . |
| 4 | The councillors involved were expelled from the ruling Labour Group on the council . |
| 5 | Again , all the applications demonstrated were based on the published case studies . |
| 6 | The decent community solidarity and welfare socialism that Mr Kinnock embodied was caught on the horns of a terrible contradiction , which Labour in opposition did nothing to resolve , since it did not tackle early enough the low tax/public spending anti-welfare consensus that Thatcherism built . |
| 7 | The data used was based on the 1972 , 1973 and 1974 intakes of all UK Universities and was provided by The Universities Statistical Record . |
| 8 | The recipe she used was taken from the WI Book of Bread and Buns . |
| 9 | He fled and fled , and every door he found was painted with the black plague cross and every face he pleaded with was tinged with the red of plague fever . |
| 10 | The women interviewed were assessed on the number of amenities — running hot water , nearness to shops and so on — and aids — vacuum cleaners , washing machines and so forth — they possessed . |
| 11 | To take an extreme example , if all the additional income received were withdrawn from the circular flow of income , the multiplier would be equal to l and the final rise in income would be just equal to the initial rise in spending and no more . |
| 12 | The strategy adopted was to begin with the best analysed corpus available when we started work ( Alvar Ellegard 's 128,000 word analysed subset of the Brown Corpus of American English ) , convert it into a format that could be used in practice , and improve and extend it in various ways . |
| 13 | Much of the substantial loss which Coleridge suffered was borne by the uncomplaining and insufficiently thanked Cottle , whose verdict on the Watchman was brief and to the point . |
| 14 | He 'd was stationed with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Bosnia protecting the UN headquarters in Sarajevo . |
| 15 | Data from the patients who withdrew were included in the analysis up to the point of withdrawal . |
| 16 | In 1969 Josef Frolik of the Czechoslovakian intelligence service defected to the CIA with his wife and proceeded to give some startling information about numerous British Labour Party politicians and trade union officials who he claimed were working for the KGB . |
| 17 | On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity . |
| 18 | On 6 December 1990 , the case stated was signed by the Special Commissioner and sent to the taxpayer . |
| 19 | The two , sometimes three , hours spent in the College quadrangle when , we are told , the Professor would courteously listen and give an intelligible answer to every question , and when the instruction he communicated was stamped on the memory by the good temper and joke and repartee with which it was accompanied , these were periods which an old student liked to call to memory , for they were hours pleasantly and usefully passed . |
| 20 | Griffith seems to have supposed that the cracks which he thought existed were scattered throughout the interior of the glass and were perhaps a consequence of a failure of the molecules inside the glass to join up completely when the glass hardened . |
| 21 | The data collected were analysed by the department of general practice at the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guys and St Thomas 's Hospitals . |
| 22 | Our third theme will be the way in which the questions these developments raised were illustrated towards the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the present century in the work of Albert Schweitzer ( 1875–1965 ) , Johannes Weiss ( 1863–1914 ) , William Wrede ( 1859–1906 ) , Martin Kähler ( 1835–1912 ) and Ernst Troeltsch ( 1865–1923 ) . |
| 23 | The effect of these two prescriptions was that the principal repayments of loans raised were taken off the balance sheet and put through the revenue account . |
| 24 | The courses taught were validated by the University of Birmingham which approved these syllabuses , designed by those who were to teach them . |
| 25 | But the amounts the Poles spent were dwarfed by the way the Nazis used state funds as if they were from the Nazi Party cash box . |
| 26 | The party structure followed was based on the Irish civil war antagonism of 1922–3 , with the pro-Treaty party more or less in power until the anti-Treaty party entered politics in 1930 . |
| 27 | It is , indeed , doubtful how much help Gloucester could have commanded explicitly in order to take the throne : some , almost certainly , but much ( if not most ) of the backing he enjoyed was given to the protector for the maintenance of stability — a distinction of which Gloucester himself seems not to have been fully conscious . |
| 28 | It is , indeed , doubtful how much help Gloucester could have commanded explicitly in order to take the throne : some , almost certainly , but much ( if not most ) of the backing he enjoyed was given to the protector for the maintenance of stability — a distinction of which Gloucester himself seems not to have been fully conscious . |
| 29 | The African colony to which he returned was regarded by the British government as ‘ advanced ’ — in African terms — which meant that it had made a start on the road to self-government ; however , the Colonial Office reckoned that the goal was still distant . |
| 30 | The money raised was given to the Holy Childhood and the scheme was adopted by Australia and Scotland . |