Example sentences of "[was/were] [pn reflx] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | would be unwise for us in analysing our 1983 data to treat the unemployed in the same way as in 1972 without at least considering whether this might not seriously distort our results ; more specifically , it would seem important to examine what effect it would have on he 1983 mobility [ results ] if unemployment , or at all events long-term unemployment , were itself regarded as a mobility ‘ status ’ or outcome . |
| 2 | It was not only that animals were suffering to their detriment , but their abusers were themselves brutalised in the process . |
| 3 | What was unexpected , at least by Adobe , was that Microsoft , who were themselves looking for an outline font technology for Presentation Manager , would side with Apple and agree to adopt TrueType . |
| 4 | The guilty cats were themselves living in the wild . |
| 5 | The miners and their families were themselves implicated in the creation of their coalfield culture , through the operation of hegemonic processes by which relations of domination and subdomination came to imbue the entire lived experience — the social practices , relationships , expectations , and dominant values . |
| 6 | This , in fact , is a relatively small total compared to the hundreds which some man-eaters killed before they were themselves removed from the earthly scene . |
| 7 | Members of the LNA were themselves caught in the powerful polarizations of female behaviour embodied in official discourse and lacked a language to articulate alternative representations . |
| 8 | While it was widely acclaimed by public sector authorities , voluntary organizations and professionals — though inevitably with some interagency squabbling and professional quibbling-its proposed ‘ agenda for action ’ was perceived as even more far-reaching and revolutionary than the Audit Commission report , although in fact many of Griffiths ' recommendations were themselves derived from the Audit Commission 's findings , translated into practical proposals . |
| 9 | Unfortunately Glam was himself bested by the GHOST and he , too , became a surly and violent ‘ walker after death ’ . |
| 10 | … that the legendary soldier , Pyrrhus , whose many battles were characterised by massive casualties , was himself killed by a tile hurled by a lone woman ? |
| 11 | Explaining this popularity is not difficult : Edmund was himself killed by the Danes , and it was perhaps only natural that veneration for him should grow in the area which had formed his kingdom , and seen a great deal of the renewed conflict between Danes and English . |
| 12 | Not only did it make it possible to conceive of the settlement , a succession of trusts , where a trust was set up in favour of a beneficiary who was himself charged with a trust in favour of a further beneficiary , but it also allowed trusts to be set up on intestacy , which led to the growth of an advanced system of property disposition on death which had absolutely no connection with a will . |
| 13 | You will hear how Farmer Dune was himself eaten by a group of pigs . |
| 14 | Justin Lekhanya , who seized power in 1986 from the then Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan , was himself led into the studio of Radio Lesotho by troops on April 30 and made to broadcast his own resignation as Chairman of the six-member ruling Military Council . |
| 15 | Macdonald was himself expelled from the country , while Lin Jie was imprisoned for his alleged ‘ treason ’ . |
| 16 | At the end of September 1949 , therefore , Smith was himself seconded to the BEA to work on sorting out this problem , and he was in fact to stay , in a sustained attempt to work out a better contracts system , thus further strengthening the BEA 's management of the construction programme . |
| 17 | Leggott , dived to attack a Ju87 but was himself attacked by a Bf110 . |
| 18 | Robinson established a close relationship with Monck and was himself returned to the Convention Parliament for London . |
| 19 | The biographer of T. S. Eliot , who was himself to speak of the ‘ dark ’ experience , of the ‘ rude unknown psychic material ’ , incorporated in his poem The Waste Land , can be seen in Hawksmoor to contribute to the tradition of romantic fabulation which began with the Gothic novel — a tradition in which darkness is privileged , in which a paranoid distrust is evident , in which can be read the evergreen message that the deprived may turn out to be depraved , and in which there can be two of someone . |
| 20 | As a result of this he was labelled as a diehard and a bigot , when he actually distrusted the diehards and was himself distrusted by the bigots . |
| 21 | Benedict , at less than ten years of age , was himself delivered into the care of the mother he had not seen for almost two years . |
| 22 | For a start , 80% of its staff come from the former graphics system builder , which was itself born of a marriage made in hell between bitter rivals Ardent Computer Inc and Stellar Computer Corp back in 1989 . |
| 23 | The Glossopteris flora was only one of several widespread late Palaeozoic floras and was itself limited to the then Gondwana region . |
| 24 | Russia , she argued , was no longer the gendarme of Europe ; increasingly ramshackle and transformed by rapid industrialization , it was itself faced with the threat of revolution . |
| 25 | The opera , by Malcolm Williamson , was itself based on a novel of the same name by Patrick Leigh Fermor , who wove a complicated plot of romance and intrigue against the colourful background of a sultry Caribbean town in the midst of a hectic carnival , while above the town a volcano rumbled threateningly . |
| 26 | The basic dimension of a mill was its width which determined both the length and the height , and which was itself determined by the length of the cotton-spinning ‘ mule ’ . |
| 27 | Although negotiations on arms reductions were about to resume in Geneva when Gorbachev assumed the general secretaryship , Cruise and Pershing-II weapons had already been deployed in Western Europe following the NATO ‘ dual track ’ decision of 1979 ( this was itself represented as a response to the Soviet decision to replace its ageing SS-4 and -5 missiles in Eastern Europe with more modern SS-20s ) . |
| 28 | However , in the FDP ( which was itself troubled by a financial scandal in 1981 ) certain elements believed that government spending must now be cut and taxes lowered . |
| 29 | The stringent exclusion criteria in trials of antithrombotic therapy ensured that less than 10% of those with AF were actually considered suitable for randomisation , and in one study , being over 75 was itself regarded as a contraindication to anticoagulation until later into the enrolment phase . |
| 30 | Plummer argued that D was partly derived from a predecessor of the St Augustine 's chronicle , and that this was itself descended from an Abingdon manuscript which also lies behind C. He thus explained the presence in E of various entries on abbots of Abingdon which are also in C. Possibly an Abingdon version of the Chronicle was taken to Canterbury in 1044 when its abbot , Siward , replaced Archbishop Eadsige , who had resigned because of ill-health , or was subsequently sent there at Siward 's request . |