Example sentences of "that was [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the starting point was the requirement of reducing numbers of employees , this requirement was translated into a productivity-improvement program that was implemented under the leadership of a transition-management team composed of high-potential managers . |
| 2 | Some of today 's populous places were insignificant before the Industrial Revolution , but they have now far outgrown the village that was clustered around the ancient parish church . |
| 3 | Given the ecumenical spirit which has prevailed in many school religious assemblies for a number of years , it was hardly surprising that serious objection would be taken to the emphasis on Christian traditions that was incorporated into the law on collective worship . |
| 4 | The amount of ocean heat that was lost to the atmosphere during the Widdell polenier events in the mid nineteen seventies was absolutely enormous . |
| 5 | There was a burst of laughter and the woman shrieked something that was lost in the hubbub . |
| 6 | BP has already made one unsuccessful attempt to make use of its £500m in surplus advanced corporation tax with a North Sea-based scheme that was vetoed by the Treasury . |
| 7 | Aye with used just the grain that was grown on the croft and brought in a lot of the feed . |
| 8 | The attack begins with the attacker taking one full step forward and punching outwards with his ‘ cocked ’ fist , that is , the one that was resting on the hip . |
| 9 | But the Scrabo stone that was salvaged from the fire is to be re-used to face the new free standing church that is being built alongside the tower . |
| 10 | I was involved with the show that was recorded at The Marquee and I think a few months after that he called me and said he was doing an album called ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ and did n't know where to get it mixed . |
| 11 | Can I just one one final point there is e I did notice in my proof there was in in in typing there was one line I do n't know if you noticed there was one line that was missed off the bottom of one of the pages , and if I can er either give that to you . |
| 12 | Harvey just nodded and twisted a silk scarf inside out to demonstrate the map that was printed on the silk lining . |
| 13 | I am in the process of compiling a catalogue for the collection of 20th century religious art belonging to the Methodist Church , a collection that was created in the early 1960s . |
| 14 | The subject had a mission , just as the international organization that was created by the peacemakers , the League of Nations , had a mission to the international political system . |
| 15 | To distract Perdita 's attention from a terrified stray dog that was cringing on the right of the road , Luke pointed out three tumbledown houses on the left . |
| 16 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 17 | It takes its name from Betchworth Castle , a medieval mansion that was altered in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but is now a ruin . |
| 18 | National and party interest thus combined to make Sonar Law promote a coalition , but it was the national interest that was cited as the reason for joining Asquith . |
| 19 | Investors , who have seen life breathed into a share price that was destined for the doldrums this year , may have a different view . |
| 20 | When the requirement was originally written erm and agreed in nineteen eighty seven all of the nations decided that erm we required a short take off and landing capability and that was based on the sort of the then cold war situation where the prospects of runways and airfields being very severely damaged in a sort of central European type of scenario , and therefore the possibility that there might be only very small operating strips available from those runways and that was the basis for the particular length that was decided at the time . |
| 21 | Grainne stood very still , although she did not close her eyes , for to do so in here , with a creature , a something that was watching from the shadowy corners and grinning and copying her every move , was not to be thought of . |
| 22 | From then until Franco 's death in 1975 , it was no longer simply the victory in the Civil War that was invoked as the basis for Franco 's right to rule , but his role as the provider of material wealth and prosperity . |
| 23 | Holly saw the bright red band that was sewn to the upper arm of his tunic , the red diamond on his chest . |
| 24 | On the more formal , constitutional , front , survey research on voters revealed a reality utterly at odds with the conception of the active and informed citizen that was built into the traditional liberal-democratic theory of the British constitution so confounding the credibility of that perspective on British politics as well . |
| 25 | It 's a folly that was built by the Earl and Countess of Coventry so all their friends could see it for miles around . |
| 26 | This was a difficult action for us , due to our utmost regard for the memory of Leo Fender , but one that was necessitated by the actions of the new management at G&L . ’ |
| 27 | Instead of fashion being mainly , well almost totally an upper class preoccupation , it became , because of the ease of manufacture and because more clothes were more readily available and cheaper , it became one , something that was worn by the middle classes , gradually sort of percolated downwards . |
| 28 | As to the unfair and entirely predictable venom that was poured on the head of my right hon. Friend the Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) a moment ago , it is increasingly impossible to have a sensible talk about sensitive matters without such abuse . |
| 29 | It also works with the AppleTalk PC card that was announced at the same time . |
| 30 | Their common aim is to help introduce a more just and democratic society ; to bring into being the social transformation that was announced by the government as it took over the leadership of the newly independent Zimbabwe in 1980 . |