Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We certainly were like being in the army more or less , and er there was the head servants and erm the under servants , you know ? |
| 2 | Some odd-looking monsters had been produced by designers striving to come to terms with these innovations , but by 1880 warships were already essentially what they were to be for the rest of the century , armoured , steam-driven and screw-propelled , with their main armament in revolving turrets or carried broadside . |
| 3 | The controversy which surrounded these events , and which periodically exercised the District Executive and enlivened the District Council , took place at a time when tutor-organisers were less established figures than they were to be in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 4 | The Necromundans were to be in the fortress-monastery for six imperial months before suffering their initiatory hazing at the hands of older cadets . |
| 5 | The county court judge held that in view of certain statutory provisions which provided that the costs of the arbitration were to be in the discretion of the arbitrator , the costs agreement was invalid . |
| 6 | Sara and Thomas were to be in the cottage , and Simon 's household of three in Thomas 's place . |
| 7 | It has been suggested that literacy levels in these weaving villages were higher than they were to be in the industrial towns of south Lancashire a generation later . |
| 8 | It was like being at the source of the lightning . |
| 9 | It was like being at the edge of the world . |
| 10 | But now it was like being on the launch pad — the craft standing on its end with the nose upwards and me sitting there facing upwards being pulled down into the back of the seat by gravity . |
| 11 | Working for Malcolm and Vivienne was like being in the army . |
| 12 | It was like being in the top of the oak tree again , except this time the shimmer of woodland was transformed into the dream-like rhythm of words . |
| 13 | Surfing Hawaii was like being in the Blitz , and it may have been the thought of death that made me think of love . |
| 14 | It was like being in the Twilight zone . ’ |
| 15 | Flames seethed along each crack in its wall , and for Ruth , standing on the circular floor , it was like being in the middle of a fire — an icy , silent fire . |
| 16 | For Ricky Stride , association with Minton was like being in the presence of an exploding star : anything might happen , for he created around him an exciting and excitable atmosphere . |
| 17 | It was like being in the adit of a mine , and I was driving into the bowels of the earth with a man who seemed hell bent on risking our lives for no apparent reason . |
| 18 | It was like being in the room with Miss Trimm yet again confiding that she 'd mothered another Jesus Christ . |
| 19 | It was like being in the entrails of a glacier . |
| 20 | It was like being among the dead men in an enormous empty green cathedral . |
| 21 | Well when it was started up , the first unit that I was with was from the shop floor at Bloxwich Lock and Stamping and erm it took the nucleus of people off the shop floor and then after we 'd finished our ten hour shift during the summer or when we could , we started foot drill training in the yard of the factory . |
| 22 | It was to be about the –wicked stepmother ’ in Snow White , something from her point of view , redress some of the balance . |
| 23 | The intended film was to be about the sex life of Christ , and supposedly was to involve both heterosexual and homosexual acts . |
| 24 | The appointment was to be for the life of his father , Richard Earl of Cornwall , the king 's brother , with reversion to the Crown . |
| 25 | The contemporary open door was to be for the benefit of the Chinese , not their disadvantage . |
| 26 | However , for funding reasons this centre was to be for the whole region . |
| 27 | The Pill was to be for the sexual revolution what steam was to the industrial revolution . |
| 28 | I was to be at the harbour at 8 a.m. on the dot . |
| 29 | One of the Penge termini was to be at the top of Anerley Hill , by the Crystal Palace , then in use as a large exhibition centre , which it was hoped would attract much traffic to the trams . |
| 30 | He was to be at the mercy of both and early on he knew it . |