Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to him that if this were over the Front he would be a gift for even the stupidest German pilot . |
| 2 | Speaking of hearing in Gertrude Stein 's prose the ‘ hypnotic ’ ‘ rhythms ’ of ‘ the saxophone ’ he concluded that if this were of the future , then the future was ‘ of the barbarians ’ . |
| 3 | Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith . |
| 4 | Quite a few were in the printing and paper trades as folders , envelope makers , envelope stampers etc . |
| 5 | Few were in the market for the Kuwaiti shares , but few were in the market at all with such an overhang : only 2.9m shares changed hands compared with Tuesday 's 30m . |
| 6 | Few were in the market for the Kuwaiti shares , but few were in the market at all with such an overhang : only 2.9m shares changed hands compared with Tuesday 's 30m . |
| 7 | A few were in the hands of private companies , but the majority were owned either by the Federal or state governments . |
| 8 | Surgical causes were mostly postoperative but some were in the category of acute surgical admissions . |
| 9 | Some of the organisations studied had upgraded the status of large numbers of their temporary workers for this reason in the past , some were in the process of doing so . |
| 10 | Half of the sentences were of the form B because A ( as in the above example ) , and half were of the form Because A , B ( e.g. , Because the sun started to shine , the snowman started to melt ) . |
| 11 | This was about the year 1200 ( the charter is undated ) , but there is the fishpond today . |
| 12 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ This was about the time The Beatles were just starting and they were considered to have long hair , but if you look at the pictures of them in those days , they had almost crew-cuts compared to David 's which was honestly long , bright yellow , bleached blonde from a bottle . |
| 13 | information about a particular piece , so , Simon and I sort of , we were talking kind of fairly casually about that , but erm , what we agreed to do is , this was about the time when we first got the equipment I think and it , it occurred to me that you , and I 've checked this now , that you can actually plug a cassette , you know , a Walkman type of player into either the microphone for the |
| 14 | The council insisted on erecting another — this was about the time I arrived — and it got delivered in handy , fit-together sections . |
| 15 | He was the first big money(950,000) signning by Allan Clark , personally I think Clark just signed him because everybody else was spending absurd amounts money on crap , this was about the time malcolm allison was spending 1 to 2 million quid every other week on unknown bits of shit , so clarke thought lets join in . |
| 16 | And this was at the back of the head , only the central seam contaminated , and that only meagrely . |
| 17 | ‘ This was at the church just down the road from here ? ’ |
| 18 | Health authority staff , not unreasonably , felt that this was at the cost of forgoing routine casework support for a wide range of people ( horizontal efficiency ) and from their point of view , therefore , the developmental role of the CMHTs represented an unacceptable opportunity cost . |
| 19 | Turning to Europe , Mr Ridley said that the Government was pressing other EC countries to reduce their industrial subsidies , for this was at the heart of a genuine single market after 1992 . |
| 20 | It did launch a general economic survey in 1953 , but this was at the request of the Special Council of Ministers , itself responding to national government worries about a slump in demand . |
| 21 | This was at the Apollo 17 site where a sample was chipped from a boulder several metres across . |
| 22 | This was at the language school in Leningrad , with all the lessons in English . |
| 23 | ‘ This was at the police station , was it ? ’ |
| 24 | This was at the time the government introduced conscription , when the travelling medical boards had instructions to discharge unfit men , to take the place of those called up . |
| 25 | In half ( 11 cases ) this was at the patients ' request because of poor function . |
| 26 | Coincidentally this was at the height of the News International affair , which undoubtedly provided a severe test for the Code and its guidelines . |
| 27 | ‘ This was at the Palace ? ’ |
| 28 | This was at the limit of the effective range of canister but he could afford to wait no longer ; his men were so weak , their movements so sluggish that they would need every extra second if they were to re-load and fire another charge before the enemy reached the ramparts . |
| 29 | Keynes thought this was worth the whole of the rest of the White Paper put together . |
| 30 | Since this was under the cannon of the town , at least on the Scots side of the river , it was unlikely to be guarded . |