Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | As he was picked to second the Loyal Address today , I think that he can confidently look forward after the next general election to a leading position on the Opposition Front Bench . |
| 32 | This was done by cross-tabulating the answer to the question : ‘ To what extent did you personally feel threatened by the review ? ’ against all the other items in the questionnaire . |
| 33 | Between 1963 and 1974 an attempt was made to measure the abundance and distribution of the common and widespread birds breeding in Sussex woodlands by a series of sample censuses . |
| 34 | The patients were monitored for any streptococcal infections during sampling , but no attempt was made to measure the amount of streptokinase absorbed . |
| 35 | By 1990 the museum 's concentration on twentieth-century art had made it an anomaly in the collection and the decision was made to deaccession the picture , valued at $10 million . |
| 36 | Either therefore I am being non-cooperative or I intend to convey something rather different : ( 34 ) Queen Victoria was made of iron The straightforward interpretation is that since Queen Victoria in fact lacked the definitional properties of iron , she merely had some of the incidental properties like hardness , resilience , non-flexibility or durability . |
| 37 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 38 | Hardy was describing in fiction the real and very harsh position that unmarried mothers from the poorer sections of society found themselves in . |
| 39 | And he was going at double the speed , I 'm not joking ! |
| 40 | This funny fat fool , this symbol of old-style decency was drowned at sea the other day just after declaring how happy he was to be alive . |
| 41 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 42 | By this time the acquisitiveness of the younger Despenser was beginning to fracture the unity of the court , and Audley was one of Despenser 's first victims . |
| 43 | When salmeterol was compared with salbutamol the geometric mean dose equivalence for FEV 1 , heart rate , plasma potassium concentration , QTc interval , and tremor amplitude ranged from 3.1 to 12.6 ( table II ) . |
| 44 | But my strategy was to keep in mind the long-term situation … . |
| 45 | But I was saying about Help the Aged , Check Your Tax . |
| 46 | Perhaps the most influential of the European ecological botanists was the Dane , Eugenius Warming ( 1841–1924 ) , whose Plantesamfund of 1895 was translated into German the following year and into English as Oecology of Plants in 1909 . |
| 47 | These seating arrangements thus provided a visual reflection and reinforcement of the social divisions within the parish ; when Richard Gough set out at the end of the seventeenth century to write the history of his parish of Myddle in Shropshire , he decided that the most natural way to organize his account was to consider in turn the occupants of each pew in Myddle church . |
| 48 | An immediate Exchequer grant was provided to tide the hospitals over the emergency . |
| 49 | He was rushed to hospital the minute we docked . |
| 50 | He was asked to mike the case that supports his belief |
| 51 | The single mother who was a rape victim ( you have no excuse whatever , the judge had told the culprit ) ; the family whose home was struck by lightning the day after their insurers went broke ; the legless man who packed cosmetics at home because he liked to feel he was paying his way . |
| 52 | Goodman contended that the RCM was putting at risk the interests of the Jewish faith by its readiness to enlist help from the Christian community . |
| 53 | Dundee did deservedly edge in front in the 12th minute when Gary McKeown curled in a cross from the right and defender Gary Paterson was allowed to chest the ball down before hooking it high into the net . |
| 54 | When it was floating of course the the when the an when it holds it pulls the detonator something to do with a mag with er with the mechanism of it er . |
| 55 | He immediately fell out with the managing director , who resigned , and then with the new chairman , respected City figure John Redgrave , who was put into rescue the company by the stockbrokers . |
| 56 | Since VP3 and VP2 co-migrated in this gel system , the presence of VP2 was confirmed by immuno-precipitating the VLPs with monoclonal VP2 antibody ( data not shown ) . |
| 57 | On the day that Don Peters was on his feet at the EPC meeting , fighting for the survival of the British Vehicle Division and the jobs of the fifty thousand people it employed , Fred Clasper was setting in motion the third and final stage of his scheme to sabotage any possible chance of the company 's recovery . |
| 58 | The MORI survey was conducted to measure the success of the Prospectus and to provide feedback for the second edition , which has now been published . |
| 59 | We did n't let that stop us , though — almost overnight , it seemed , Amsterdam was covered with Stop The Clause graffiti , especially along the canal banks . |
| 60 | There was no moat , and though the hall was constructed of stone the other buildings within the bailey were of wood and thatch and therefore vulnerable to fire . |