Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [noun sg] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I can get round to doing that this week , I started trying on Friday but most of them were of course hitting the road . |
| 2 | Work was about to start on a new street through to Clerkenwell Green and excavations were under way to raise the level of the road by several feet . |
| 3 | But , last week , news broke that contacts were under way to break the deadlock . |
| 4 | The military were fully alerted and when the village priest read out the details the police were in attendance to stifle the groans of disbelief with which they were met . |
| 5 | However , Ramsay and some of his closest associates still met and its activities were in fact to provide the government with the excuse to intern many fascists without trial in 1940 . |
| 6 | This mechanism paved the way for two ‘ Financial Advisers ’ to be appointed ( ‘ pro tem ’ ) , but who were in fact to run the Club 's affairs — along with Barclays Bank as Treasurer — for 10 years . |
| 7 | Although we know from other sources that Emily Faithfull 's London apprentices and journey-women were in fact paid the full male rate ( though with some amendment of the apprenticeship system ) , it was clear that she and other promoters of the scheme did anticipate that the consequence might be to lower wages in the printing trade . |
| 8 | Three EC forums were in place to solve the Yugoslav crisis : the EC Peace Conference chaired by Lord Carrington bringing together representatives of the former Yugoslav states ; the Conference on Bosnia-Hercegovina under Portuguese EC envoy José Cutilheiro ; and the Arbitration Commission , chaired by Robert Badinter . |
| 9 | It is doubtful whether they would have been able to afford the elaborate system which replaced this piecemeal amateur effort , and in any case they were spared the necessity of any expenditure since the Empress Elizabeth seized their assets in 1747 , just as plans were in hand to construct the new line . |
| 10 | As the event ended , they were on course to reach the £2,000 target needed to sponsor two guide dogs . |
| 11 | They were offered the same curriculum as the rest of the unstreamed class , i.e. they were on course to fail the 11 plus . |
| 12 | Around a hundred officers were on duty to ensure the match was trouble free . |
| 13 | They were elaborately staged : flags and crosses of Lorraine decorated the podium ; ex-resisters , locals dressed in traditional regional costume , and children carrying flowers were on hand to greet the General . |
| 14 | Sony were on hand to take the best of several live performances as the latest in a Puccini cycle which has already shed light on two rarities ( the early Le Villi , the late but surprisingly light La Rondine ) and will go on to Edgar — which Maazel had hoped he would record with Domingo at the time of the Fanciulla production but ‘ we looked at the schedule and realized , fortunately in time , that we were totally insane ’ . |
| 15 | It dramatically dwindled so that fewer than 500 were on hand to see the final drama unfold on the fifth morning . |
| 16 | At the massive party afterwards the Seventies were celebrated in a most appropriate way : Gloria Gaynor , Thelma Houston and one half of the Weather Girls were on hand to perform the songs that defined the liberal optimism of the period . |
| 17 | You were on business visiting the offices where she works and decided to sample the food in the canteen . |
| 18 | We were told that although up to this point no account had been made for the effects of new policies , the counties were at liberty to estimate the effects of new policies — either theirs or the Government 's via planning policy guidance and the work of development agencies , TECs etc . |
| 19 | This was , in fact , the same scale of values that initiated the work , since wealthy patrons were at liberty to specify the number of historiations and miniatures and paid accordingly . |
| 20 | This morning at Sharpness docks , carpenters were at work mending the damage . |
| 21 | Not only was it a matter of dignity and prestige that the remaining continental possessions of the Plantagenets should be preserved , but political and material forces were at work to maintain the Anglo-Gascon connection . |
| 22 | The point of all this was of course to reinforce the belief that the after-life was a paradise , even if only achievable with certainty through death in battle , and thus to improve the combativeness of the assassins . |
| 23 | Sunday , I , I was up ladder cutting the trees down |
| 24 | As one was under obligation to study the former , so too there was an obligation to study the latter . |
| 25 | In September a new management was installed , but state Governor Roy Romer was under pressure to close the plant . |
| 26 | There was you know little firms like that and yet everybody was in , nobody nobody would ever try and er and er and er and escape paying their contribution , but there was a law you could n't join a union till you were sixteen , that was the law then in then , but er when this strike came back and we came on strike in December , er we lads who was under age joined the union , they give us all six bob a week , the union did . |
| 27 | In visiting Susannah Taylor whenever he was on circuit in East Anglia the barrister and antislavery literary journalist , Henry Crabb Robinson , was in part resuming the connections of his youth . |
| 28 | She was in court to hear the judge order a retrial . |
| 29 | Another of the defendants , Daniel Winter , cleared of manslaughter yesterday , was in court to hear the verdicts . |
| 30 | The girl , who can not be named for legal reasons , was in court to hear the judge dismiss her father 's appeal against a magistrates ' order placing her in the care of London 's Southwark Council under the 1989 Children Act . |