Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the body of the report was accepted by the Americans , who if they needed any further confirmation were given it in the form of a 72 per cent failure rate among recently qualified army medical officers who had been given a questionnaire on the venereal diseases and their control . |
| 2 | Subject presumes perceived er speaker as pr prestigious and authoritative and they perceived that there might be future interaction with him perceived his speech is more similar to their own than subjects who were told nothing about the speaker . |
| 3 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 4 | The effects of the war locally are explored , as families with differing allegiances were set one against the other . |
| 5 | Several London children who had been allocated to secondary education in a grammar or central school found , after they were evacuated , that they were denied it by the absence of such provision in their reception area . |
| 6 | He reported success with Yellow-root ( i.e. Hydrastis canadensis ) as it had ‘ flowered and ripened seeds in our garden , two years past , from some roots which were sent me from the inland parts of your country . |
| 7 | The courage of Peter er after his denial is something that was given him by the Holy Spirit . |
| 8 | I was given it at the end of a stormy course on race relations given to staff at Hen don Police College . |
| 9 | Another small farm was shown me as the place where the mother of a young baby had forgotten to place the poker over its cradle : as a consequence the child , unprotected by iron , had been stolen by the fairies and replaced by a ‘ changeling ’ . |
| 10 | And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning the child . |
| 11 | In April 1989 a " law on individual rights " was approved which for the first time explicitly recognized the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 12 | Oh it was bought it from the Christmas , two ninety nine from . |
| 13 | Owen knew from the title that this was a member of the Egyptian Royal Family but which of the Khedive 's numerous progeny it was escaped him for the moment . |
| 14 | It was believed someone from the Academy was helping Mann with the finance and distribution of the drugs . |
| 15 | After Imran Khan was ruled our of the tour because of his shoulder injury , Miandad was the obvious choice , and a popular one too from the players ' and selectors ' points of view . |
| 16 | Ramsey expected that once the resolution was taken everything in the mind would be peace after doubt . |
| 17 | Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really . |
| 18 | I suppose what I did there was put them on the spot so how could I word that so that it does n't put people on the defensive so much ? |
| 19 | The German Commandant had dreamt of a mute Jewish whore and when he was issued one for the duration his cup overflowed . |
| 20 | My fortune was denied you at the last , and that was the spur . |
| 21 | FOUR years after it was burned it to the ground in a disastrous fire , a Catholic church is rising from the ashes . |
| 22 | And the final tribute was paid them by the Ferrarese organist Luzzasco Luzzaschi ( 1545 ? -1607 ) , a pupil of Rore , in his Madrigali … per cantare et sonare a uno , e doi , e tre soprani ( Rome , 1601 ) in which the lower parts of the madrigal were played on a harpsichord . |