Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Added to all this were wrangles over the Community Budget and the Common Agricultural Policy together with the protective responses which followed in the wake of the oil price recessions of the 1970s and growing foreign competition . |
| 2 | Some were frescoes in the truest sense : colours were applied to wet plaster and left to sink into it as the plaster dried . |
| 3 | The carnivores of the Lower Triassic were from two groups : some were synapsids of the group Cynodontia , and others were early thecodontians . |
| 4 | Some were survivors of the Illyrians , others were Vlahs , a people of Romance speech whose name is related to Wallachia . |
| 5 | This was manna for the banks . |
| 6 | This was part of the good life , and they were not to be denied it . |
| 7 | This was part of the enigma in his character . |
| 8 | Some of the documents reproduced in this pamphlet certainly provide disturbing evidence of the politicization of the curriculum , especially in parts of the ILEA , and to expose this was part of the purpose of the pamphlet . |
| 9 | This was part of the big garage at the top of the drive by the road . |
| 10 | This was part of the cultural revolution which has gone on ever since . |
| 11 | ( This was part of the holiday cleaning-up . |
| 12 | Perhaps this was part of the Stroicim Inchinn . |
| 13 | This was part of the policy of attempting to involve the people in minor administrative activities which was implemented after the death of Stalin . |
| 14 | In 1919 , the bells were re-cast and re-hung in a new frame with a treble bell added , making a new peal of six bells , this was part of the memorial of 1914–18 war . |
| 15 | So this was part of the job at the weekend ? |
| 16 | This was part of the policy of ‘ normalisation ’ for the territory , which they 'd begun as they started to register decisive military successes . |
| 17 | It 's one of the great unknown discoveries , that this was part of the Roman cemetery of Wotton . |
| 18 | He said McAteer had already served a six month prison sentence for two assaults on his wife , and in his view , this was part of the same situation . |
| 19 | ‘ This was slaughter in the spring sunshine , ’ wrote the Sunday Express ; next to the report were nine horrific photographs , each one showing the tragic Frank Haffey in poses of utter desperation as he dived , slid and fumbled his way through the afternoon . |
| 20 | This was Ian by the way . |
| 21 | This was fodder for the trainees , and they rarely got much else . |
| 22 | Like George VI and the then Queen Elizabeth eating spam from a gold plate during the Second World War , this was pageantry on the cheap rather than an unrestrained recapitulation of the glories of the first Elizabethan Age . |
| 23 | This was anathema to the predominant mentality of the time , and a stark contrast to the later argument of Job Throckmorton [ q.v. ] that Parliament had full competence in the matter . |
| 24 | This was Ursula of the long blonde hair and double-barrelled baronial-barbaric surname ( withheld by Behrens ) , who had fled what survived of ancestral estates — on one view of the matter — and had made her courageous way across Europe , shot at and winged by border guards , to Vienna , and on to London , where she fell among art historians and was counselled by Anthony Blunt . |
| 25 | This was 5% below the government 's planned intake , mostly because of an under-recruitment of those planning to teach in secondary schools . |
| 26 | Most of this was heathland until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when it was largely enclosed . |
| 27 | This was par for the course , they seemed to be saying . |
| 28 | The same was true of James Joule 's experiment in which water was warmed quantitatively by stirring it in special apparatus : a definite quantity of mechanical force in the clockwork produced a definite quantity of heat-but the context of this was argument about the nature of heat , and Joule seemed to have proved that it was motion of particles rather than a substance . |
| 29 | ‘ I have been silent ’ ( this was news to the Lionisers ) ‘ but my lips shall be sealed no longer . |
| 30 | The Society said this was 25pc below the average now allowed by district judges and in many cases would not even cover solicitors ' overheads . |