Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anything , he was more bookish and intellectual than many of his fellow-students who were pursuing with success the required courses of study . |
| 2 | To us the white sands of Tanakeke looked inviting , but our crew were filled with apprehension the closer we got . |
| 3 | Its president , Charles Gray , said there was no justification for removing regulatory functions from district and island councils which were committed to tightening-up the control regime . |
| 4 | Analysis of variance and the Newman-Keuls procedure were applied to measure the statistical significance of means from different diagnostic categories . |
| 5 | Twenty-three different awards were presented by HRH The Duke of Gloucester to practical preservationists across the country , including British Rail , private railways and groups , and even two private home owners ! |
| 6 | Attempts were made to measure the relative contribution to the overall metabolism of mucosa , lamina propria , and muscularis layers . |
| 7 | At that time few attempts were made to measure the effectiveness of such activity , and advertising agencies tended to branch out into sales promotions with the aim of offering an all-inclusive package to their clients in an attempt to combat competition from the emerging sales promotion agencies . |
| 8 | WE WERE shown on TV the joy of a young couple moving into their new home after just beating the Stamp Duty deadline . |
| 9 | The lines were opened for service the next day , 12 April , from the ‘ Pawleyne Arms ’ , along Penge High Street to the Thicket Road terminus and from the ‘ Robin Hood ’ to Low Level Station . |
| 10 | Skins and skeletons of mammals , from the giant kangaroo to the tiny kangaroo rat , were hauled on board the groaning bullock carts to join the piles of feathered carcases already stacked away as part of Gould 's mammoth collection . |
| 11 | Today they were going to replaster the house : not just the floor , which they did regularly when it became cracked and dusty , or on special occasions , such as when the house had been polluted by childbirth or death . |
| 12 | Today they were going to replaster the whole house : floors , ceilings , walls — inside and out . |
| 13 | ‘ She was at that cocktail party the Sheldonians gave — do n't you remember ? — when we were staying with Mother the summer before last . ’ |
| 14 | Would we believe someone who said they were viewing with enthusiasm the prospect of being 85 ? |
| 15 | The house of Neill & Co. had patented their own , and since this was one of the offices that most whole-heartedly recruited women , a number of the women compositors at Neill 's in the 1870s were set to work the machines . |
| 16 | The Duke and Duchess of Kent were represented by Captain the Honourable Christopher Knollys at the Memorial Service for Marjorie , Countess of Brecknock which was held in the Guards Chapel , today . |
| 17 | They were putting into action the words of Sir Gordon Borrie : |
| 18 | It is as if Sukenick were putting into practice the principles of what he has called the ‘ architectonic novel ’ which ( and he cites Raymond Federman 's Double or Nothing as a prime example ) works like a jigsaw puzzle : ‘ the picture is filled out but there is no sense of development involved ’ ( Federman 1975 : 38 ) . |
| 19 | The Burrows family were putting into practice the Army policy of " itinerants for God " . |
| 20 | And most of you are probably aware that last year the the company tried to renege on their P L C P L C status and buy out existing shareholders erm and the furore surrounding that erm the price that they were trying to repurchase the shares from the existing shareholders er caused a lot of discontentment er surrounding that scenario . |
| 21 | We were watching in case the Tans would try to infiltrate the lakes at night . |
| 22 | It joined the various Curtiss Robins , de Havilland Moths , Fairchilds , Bellancas , Fokker Super Universals and Lockheed Electras , which all were engaged in opening-up the countryside . |
| 23 | A contrasting case is Watson [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 865 ( CA ) : the jury were to take into account the knowledge of the victim 's age and ( frail ) condition which he had acquired after he had broken into her house . |
| 24 | Pearsons correlation coefficient was calculated to measure the association between continuous variables . |
| 25 | If it was to continue in existence the ILP had to reach some agreement , to find some acceptable compromise between " Unity " and " independence " . |
| 26 | The other physician in attendance was Larrey , son of Napoleon I 's great surgeon-general , who in 1864 was to diagnose with accuracy the cause of Napoleon III 's declining health — a kidney stone . |
| 27 | In essence this appeared to reverse the commitment not to maintain land , sea or air forces , but as the stress was placed on self-defence the SDK was said not to contradict the spirit as opposed to the letter of the constitution . |
| 28 | He was nursing in silence the options left to him , and so far they did not appear to him totally unpromising . |
| 29 | It is said that invoices were raised against Wessex on behalf of Abbey and that when payment was received by Abbey the moneys were diverted by Mr. Tully and others and were partly dissipated in bribes and partly disguised and concealed in various bank accounts and other havens . |
| 30 | In his study of abolition , Williams was effectively challenging the views perpetrated by an august body of imperial historians and in so doing was bringing into question the ‘ moral legitimacy ’ of the British anti-slavery movement . |