Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 2 | All were still fastened into their safety belts and some were still in the position that the pilot had obviously instructed them to adopt , leaning forward with their arms over their heads . |
| 3 | Weeks later , half were downstairs for the more tuneful brew mixed up by various members of the Flying DJ family . |
| 4 | The interviews were carried out some time after the abuse had been established , so that while all had been on the child abuse register only half were still on the register when interviewed . |
| 5 | But this was just during the strike ? |
| 6 | In this spirit I joined the Abortion Law Reform Association while still at school ; this was just before the passage of the 1967 Abortion Act . |
| 7 | And this was just in the excavated part ; by extrapolation , the researchers conclude that the total sett consisted of about 880 metres of tunnels , with 124 open entrances . |
| 8 | This was just in the first half kids . |
| 9 | As the following table shows , this was well below the required numbers , as was the availability of places in foster homes and private lodgings . |
| 10 | This was well below the levels which had been necessary to meet the annual growth of demand before the War ( 712MW had been completed in 1938 ) , and also well below the level of around 1000MW a year which the CEB now considered necessary . |
| 11 | Their husbands were away and they did n't know if they 'd come back or not and er , one girl er th this was n't at the , near where I used to live at . |
| 12 | But this was n't like the other times . |
| 13 | Before she 'd gone very far , she could see that this was n't like the fogs she knew . |
| 14 | Well this was n't in the courts , counsellor . |
| 15 | This was also at the root of altered perspectives on the cultural role of the discipline . |
| 16 | This was also in the field of contempt of court and the rule which had been evolved was that Form N78 ( Notice to show cause why there should not be a committal to prison ) had to be signed by ‘ the proper officer ’ of the county court and that unless this was done , it was an invalid notice . |
| 17 | This was right up the top and there were a tiny attic bedroom thing was made into a not very salubrious but it had a cooker and a sink . |
| 18 | This was both for the hell of it , as well as for the annals of the newly developing discipline of psycho-anthropology , whose aims are in part to define the global range of human ability . |
| 19 | ( This was shortly before the scene I made in church , so maybe the two were connected . ) |
| 20 | This was shortly after the discovery by Paul Dirac , a previous holder of the Lucasian Chair , of the Dirac equation , which governs the behavior of the electron . |
| 21 | ’ I had explained that while this was probably in the best of taste and unlikely to be very illegal , it was already being done in California and he 'd be pushed to get third party insurance cover . |
| 22 | This was not to the liking of the Social Democrats , who took a more nationalist position , placing national unification above Western allegiance in their order of priorities , and advocating a spurious ‘ third way ’ between East and West , a kind of German ‘ special path ’ . |
| 23 | And this was not on the women 's pages of the Daily Mail , but an article written by a woman on the Law page of the Guardian . |
| 24 | As for the claim that the older acts and the common law had allowed the imposition of harsher penalties , this was not for the simple fact of combination but for activities linked with industrial disputes that could have attracted prosecution for riot , intimidation , assault or destruction of property as much after 1799 as before . |
| 25 | But he and Maggie said this was NOT behind the split . |
| 26 | This was not in the rules . |
| 27 | As he had stressed in The Rock this was not in the sense of information , but rather in the sense of consciousness of values ; and he deplored a situation where the term society implied simply a group of ‘ well connected ’ and affluent people , which had almost no relation to that other group or society which maintained moral and intellectual standards , which for him was the church . |
| 28 | This was not in the public interest . |
| 29 | The simplest solution would be to raise grants to a civilised level and then to peg them to the movement of wages or prices , but this was not among the options considered by the government when it began to look at student funding . |
| 30 | This was somewhere in the centre of town . |