Example sentences of "the [noun] [was/were] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To address this difficulty the algorithm was changed to a depth-first one . |
| 2 | I should say also that I take some comfort from noticing that the judgments were reserved for five months . |
| 3 | Argument before the House of Lords in B's appeal and the judgments were confined to the certified question . |
| 4 | Immediately , they heard raised voices and saw that the porter was engaged in an altercation with two men in trench coats . |
| 5 | The porter was standing on the platform , his hands dug into his overall pockets . |
| 6 | It would need to be evident that the activities were integrated into the curriculum of the school/college , and that , for the company , the partnership was seen as essential to the planning process , like the development of a new service or product . |
| 7 | In 1971 , following a period when the activities were managed as a trading fund , British Nuclear Fuels was created as a separate publicly-owned company to manufacture and reprocess nuclear fuel . |
| 8 | In Reg. v. Barrett , 12 J.L.R. 179 , where again the accused applied unsuccessfully for leave to appeal against conviction , the defence contended that the trial judge should have allowed them to see the statement of a witness who had identified the accused at an identification parade 10 days after the commission of the offence , on the ground that , the witness having stated that she had given a description of the accused to the police , the defence were entitled as a matter of law to know the details of that description for the purpose of cross-examining the witness and testing her credibility . |
| 9 | The principal argument for the defence was summarised in the judgment of Winneke C.J. and Pape J. , at p. 355 : |
| 10 | Disposing of the case , Lord Stott analysed the ‘ legal fiction ’ upon which the defence was based in terms of the three steps of imputed knowledge involved : |
| 11 | In fact it became clear that a considerable part of the defence was going to be that of justification , that the laws and usages of war permitted reprisals to be taken against hostages . |
| 12 | But the major plank of the defence was provided by the remarkable lady journalist Suzanne Cronjé . |
| 13 | Resting gall bladder pressure was the mean pressure recorded over a five minute period immediately before an intravenous bolus of either CCK-8 or bethanechol , and the response was defined as the maximal change in intraluminal pressure recorded during the first five minute period after the bolus . |
| 14 | It was held that the brothers " were the architects of an arrangement within the definition of s437 " ( now TA 1988 , s663 ) ( Vinelott J at p685 ) thus , when dividends were paid on the shares to the children that was income arising from a transaction which had the necessary element of bounty and the income was taxed upon the settlor ( as the children were minors ) . |
| 15 | The uranium was contained in tens of thousands of armour-piercing rounds fired at Iraqi vehicles from aircraft and tanks in early 1991 . |
| 16 | He expected Mr Major to turn up at another party on Thursday night — even sneering : ‘ This is the vomit party , tomorrow 's is the cream ’ — but the Premier was flying across the Atlantic for a high-profile visit to Canadian leader Brian Mulroney . |
| 17 | These professional barriers ensured that there would be little interaction even when the disciplines were working on parallel problems . |
| 18 | As agricultural methods improved and the dwelling could be more permanent the tent was made with stone and as we have shown there are the remains of such hut circles in a number of places . |
| 19 | As agricultural methods improved and the dwelling could be more permanent the tent was made with stone and as we have shown there are the remains of such hut circles in a number of places . |
| 20 | Both sides of the huge tent were packed with queues for the buffet and the body of the tent was filled with people sipping glasses of wine . |
| 21 | The defences were increased by a million metres of barbed wire and extensive minefields in 1912 . |
| 22 | He is yet another in a long line of Scottish internationalists whose generous gifts on the park were matched by an outrageous streak when they went out to play in the recreational sense . |
| 23 | The park was reached via a slippery slope . |
| 24 | Yellowstone was threatened in 1883–4 by a plan to allow mining , but the park was saved after an intense debate . |
| 25 | The Park was created in 1967 and runs along the watershed in a strip never more than twelve kilometres wide , from the Aspe valley to the mass if of Néouvielle more than 100 kilometres to the east . |
| 26 | The park was opened in 1985 . |
| 27 | The foliage in the park was turning to burnished gold and Rachel knew that in a few short weeks the temperature would drop , the leaves would fall and once again her favourite time of year would be over . |
| 28 | Ditton is a hamlet of Stoke Poges , and the park was owned by the Montagus from the end of the 17th century . |
| 29 | She was about to ask him , tartly , if he found her presence offensive or embarrassing , but the opportunity was lost with the rector 's return , accompanied by his daughter . |
| 30 | The opportunity was seized by European trading houses such as Lever Brothers , Union Miniere , the British-South Africa Company , and Lebanese , Syrian and Indian merchants . |