Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the last chapter " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crimes that are put under these headings were identified in the last chapter , but that such distinctions are made is clear , for example , in the casual remarks the police make when responding to the respective incidents . |
| 2 | The conclusion is confirmed by the social class distribution of positive , negative and neutral responses to questions about housework tasks , some of which were described in the last chapter . |
| 3 | It was seen in the last chapter how minority ethnic and religious strands in the Smolensk guberniia presented a potential , though not an actual , source of unified protest against the central Great-Russian regime . |
| 4 | It was said in the last chapter that doubtful law should not be represented as if it were well established . |
| 5 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 6 | You may wonder how this rather high-falutin' talk of vector spaces is related to the simpler language of wave mechanics as it was presented in the last chapter . |
| 7 | The sociological neglect of housework was demonstrated in the last chapter . |
| 8 | It was observed in the last chapter that the Prague School 's views on literature and literary study were substantially those of the Formalists , but the Formalists ' influence has owed a great deal to the shape that the Prague School gave to their theory , in particular to the Prague School 's use of the concepts of structure and function . |
| 9 | The head was defined in the last chapter as ‘ all that part of a tone-unit that extends from the first stressed syllable up to , but not including , the tonic syllable ’ . |
| 10 | The use of recordings of visiting speakers was discussed in the last chapter . |
| 11 | As was discussed in the last chapter variations with exposure and intensity are approximately linear within certain bounds and it would be reasonable to correct for them by division . |
| 12 | Second , as was mentioned in the last chapter , one important function of authoritative directives is to establish and help sustain conventions . |
| 13 | Some of the dipterocarps , as was mentioned in the last chapter , are visited by thrips though these trees are strongly self-incompatible . |
| 14 | It was suggested in the last chapter that analysis which tends to deal with the nature of modernity itself is always in danger of leading to assumptions concerning the superiority of certain ‘ advanced ’ peoples over others , which are in effect a version of primitivism . |
| 15 | It was suggested in the last chapter that some so-called ‘ policies ’ may be merely symbolic . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , as was suggested in the last chapter , it is often difficult to decide on whether a word should be treated as complex or simple . |
| 17 | With metals it is essentially due to the operation of the dislocation mechanism which was described in the last chapter ; we shall discuss how this works in Chapter 9 . |