Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Preliminary work had been completed and construction tenders were due in at the end of February , said Coun. Mrs Scott . |
| 2 | Comments on the draft report were due in to the Cadbury Committee by 31 July , and committee secretary Nigel Peace confirms that the postbag is a large one . |
| 3 | Then you run into the appalling problem that the Americans were conscious of from the word go , and that is Ramadan in the middle of March , and whether the Muslims will fight . |
| 4 | But likewise we were looking for another project similar to what er Eric and I were involved in with the cage drilling machine . |
| 5 | They just warned the clachan folk what to do , waited till the Macleans were well in among the huts , and then leaped out , cheering , to slaughter them . |
| 6 | Job losses , which until recently were unheard of in the NHS , usually affect older people first , resulting in the loss of those with the most skill and experience . |
| 7 | Actually 12 were unaccounted for at the end . ’ |
| 8 | He used to come and collect that , and er But er the union well we were alright A chap named he was the secretary and er and Jack he was the president and me Dad were on the committee , there were several of on the committee . |
| 9 | He had been killed instantly along with two other Commandos who were close by at the time , their remains scattered through the trees . |
| 10 | However , his indisposition was short-lived for in the foursomes later he helped return the lowest gross of 96 , being runners-up to the Club 's Captain and Miss E. Simmons . |
| 11 | As soon as the dew had been burned off the grass , the whole house was in the hayfield , shaking out the heavy tangled lumps of grass the tedder had missed with the fork , raking what was light in from the edges . |
| 12 | and as you mentioned about the pension side which you was interested in on the planning the future I feel |
| 13 | ‘ I forgot to ask if you like garlic , but there was some in with the vegetables so I took a chance , ’ she said , adding the tomato purée to the pot with care . |
| 14 | His mother 's voice was cold from behind the make-up towel . |
| 15 | The most your average muso was comfortable with in the clomping '70s was a pickup , a volume and a tone . |
| 16 | The guy was quick on to the brakes , but not quick enough for poor old Pikey . |
| 17 | But it was , it was cheaper to by the artex like that cos it 's only three pound a bag look , three fifty a bag for a bag of it . |
| 18 | It may or not surprise you that there is already an element of regional Government actually in the U K already and since development is the issue that the Labour Group has raised , we 'll take the work of the Development Association , which I was involved in in the mid eighties and which actually does some good work to actually bring industry actually to this region . |
| 19 | Soap was unheard of at the time so to get clean the hot , sweaty skin was rubbed with oil and then scraped with a strigil — a scraper made of wood or bronze . |
| 20 | Such direct interference in the ancestral cults of a nation was unheard of in the Greek-speaking world from immemorial times . |
| 21 | It is interesting that these were exactly the issues that Mezey was concerned with at the same time , though for the whole of the region rather than one area . |
| 22 | This investigation was part of the wholesale scrutiny and revaluation that Winters was shocked into by the suicide of Hart Crane in 1932 . |
| 23 | It was unaccounted for in The Future of an Illusion , and yet it is more a basic and fundamental source of religion than are illusory and delusory beliefs . |
| 24 | But er he never asked me , put it that way , what I thought was suitable machinery and he , as far as I know he never asked other rock men what they thought was suitable for the rock and other slate makers what they thought was suitable for inside the mill , or the diamond saw operators , what sort of saws they thought were the best . |
| 25 | I did n't think it was bad for off the cuff , but he 'd probably used it a zillion times before . |
| 26 | In December 1812 one of her creditors had her arrested for debt , as he was entitled to under the still operating Lords ' Act of 1759 . |