Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other way in which the economic aspects of military expenditure were presented was in the form of the public expenditure costs . |
| 2 | The most significant way in which times were changing was in the emergence of a new attitude to owing money , a new norm , a new orthodoxy . |
| 3 | It must have been Good it must have been some sort of carbonate , and the salt that was formed was from the hydrochloric acid was calcium chloride , so it must have been ? |
| 4 | The room she was using was at the back of the house , and as she got up and walked over to the window to look out she could see a panorama of fields lying lush and green under a cloudless May sky . |
| 5 | The one bed that was occupied was at the far end of the ward . |
| 6 | While everyone agreed the changes in living standards since the film was made were for the better , there was some nostalgia for farming as it was when they were young . |
| 7 | What was needed was for the Government to spend much more money , in a more caring fashion . |
| 8 | Perhaps , as Ho said later , all that was needed was for the French to pronounce one word : independence ; but on both sides this was the most fraught and emotional issue . |
| 9 | The direction in which opinion was moving was toward the left of the political spectrum . |
| 10 | Mr Fallon said the town 's unemployment rate on which its status was fixed was below the national average of ten per cent . |
| 11 | All the other appointments and moves made since Gerstner was appointed were in the works before he arrived . |
| 12 | Especially if the bombs — or missiles — that plane was carrying were of the nuclear variety . |
| 13 | The third was ensuring that whatever equipment was required was at the right place — and would work . |