Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [coord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the manors themselves new barns , halls , and chapels were erected and in the house at Canterbury , Eastry renovated the choir and chapter house . |
| 2 | As an observer of that scene , I think that , when history is accurately written , there will be great tribute to the manner in which help , encouragement and advice of considerable quality were given and to the mobilising of the western world to accept that change was taking place . |
| 3 | But Wilkins , at 36 playing better than ever , was instrumental in the club 's 2-0 win at Wimbledon and said : ’ We were committed and in the end we came through . ’ |
| 4 | Improvements could be made , however , in the way inductions were presented and in the facilities at John Wood House for carrying them out . |
| 5 | The doctor sounded her chest , asking questions about the pain , and all the time trying to keep a sober , professional look though his hands were trembling and in the end he had to sit down to conceal his excitement . |
| 6 | A thorough understanding of the way official statistics were collected and of the workings of the administration is shown to be essential for the proper interpretation of these data . |
| 7 | Further data on these geomagnetic reversals were collected and by the mid-1960s a chronology of reversals had been established through the radiometric dating of a large number of samples from all over the world . |
| 8 | But the protesters were oumumbered and at the end of an hour they had been thrown out , some of them after suffering enough physical damage to require a visit to the casualty department of Hammersmith hospital . |
| 9 | Lying in second place and sitting on a possible £3,000 I decided that two practice sessions were needed and on the Tuesday , a week before the match , I had a day off work ( I left Dek in charge of the shop — yet again ) and headed 70 miles down the M.1. to the canal to try to sort it out . |
| 10 | A whole range of industries were affected but among the more striking examples were motor vehicles . |
| 11 | Ironically , the same concept and designation were evident in work of a different kind , where comparable observational and analytic techniques were employed but in the context of a radical critique of the institutions and their functions in capitalist society ( a specification of particular kinds of ‘ socialization ’ and ‘ communication ’ within a particular social and economic order ) . |
| 12 | This represents a considerable reduction from the figure of 980 in the Sixties , when student conductors were employed and before the introduction of one-man operations on trams and buses . |
| 13 | Harbury joined them , keen to hear what they were saying but with the excitement of someone nurturing a good story of his own . |
| 14 | Steam sprinklers were introduced and on the first day of their operation , they successfully doused another fire that would have probably removed the remainder of the factory had it taken hold . |
| 15 | The words ‘ Hey , there ’ were underlined and across the top of the page he had written in bold capitals ENGLISH . |
| 16 | Forecasts were reduced and by the year 2000 it was expected that 45pc of homes 9.5 million were likely to have a dish or cable TV — 800,000 fewer than first predicted . |
| 17 | In a flash he was pushing her away from the path they were making and into the cover of the undergrowth . |
| 18 | Perhaps the groupishness of the image of social control comes not from the way quarrels were conducted but from the way men made peaces . |
| 19 | In 1991 there were fewer people killed on the roads in Lothian than at any time since 1975 when the Region was formed and at the same time the Region experienced the second lowest casualty total . |
| 20 | In the former case the profits arose where the property was situated and in the latter case where the rights were exercisable . |
| 21 | Diem was assassinated and in the space of 1962–64 , South Vietnam had three presidents . |
| 22 | Smith was writing as the era of good harvests and cheap food was ending and before the onset of demographic acceleration . |
| 23 | The power of traditional chiefs was curbed and for the first time women and young people were drawn into the political process . |
| 24 | Here they gave poetry readings in the 800-seat auditorium ; a measure of the man he was becoming and of the distinguished company he kept . |
| 25 | And so he went the north end and got whatever it was he was wanting and on the way back he stopped at farm to watch . |
| 26 | And it begs the question on whose authority the nursing home place was accepted and at the price asked . |
| 27 | I was writing and on the video you 're sitting there going . |
| 28 | If you wish to cancel your booking this must be done in writing from the person in whose name the booking is invoiced to the travel agent through whom the booking was made or to the Invoicing Dept , Redwing Holidays Limited , Groundstar House , London Road , Crawley , West Sussex , RH10 2TB , and sent by Recorded Delivery if you have booked with us direct . |
| 29 | But any economy that was made or in the early days of Hector 's er business , I know , was always saving material rather than time . |
| 30 | When Mary I married Philip of Spain she decreed they ruled England jointly , and for the next few years until Elizabeth came to the throne the following strange convention was adopted for recording their regnal years : On 17 March 1649 the monarchy was abolished and during the period until parliamentary government was overtaken by the Restoration , English official documents were dated by the year of grace . |