Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Fig. 9.4 the original floodplain of the river is represented by the terrace A , while , after one rejuvenation , a second terrace B was formed into which the river is again cutting down to form a third terrace C. Each terrace disappears upstream at the point to which the head of rejuvenation has receded : this can be more readily appreciated from a section down the valley ( Fig. 9.5 ) . |
| 2 | The first of these reports was given on July 2 by Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov , who was heard in what the Independent of the following day described as an atmosphere of " chilly disdain " . |
| 3 | It has not happened since the end of the Second World War , but before the 1987 election , when some commentators were predicting a hung parliament , much thought was given to what the Queen would do about forming a government if they turned out to be right . |
| 4 | But that said , erm what what it what the position is , er i is that we have put into the model Well we have n't put it into the model because it was given to us a part of the model and possibly by now North Yorkshire may have the revised model , No they have n't yet . |
| 5 | S/L Paul Millikin was pressed for what the future held for the aircraft , to one question he replied ‘ I do n't know if there is talk from Whitehall … nobody tells me anything ! ’ |
| 6 | Although this treatment was undoubtedly efficacious in some cases , the patients ended up with malaria , and so a ‘ fever box ’ was developed in which the patient 's temperature could be maintained at over 106°F for several hours . |
| 7 | A night fighting variant , the Firefly NF.II , was developed in which an 18° extension was incorporated aft of the engine firewall to compensate for an alteration in the aircraft 's centre of gravity . |
| 8 | It was explained to her the day they moved in . ’ |
| 9 | In actuality it was the poorer peasants who grumbled louder and suffered more from taxation , as Yakovlev was to discover for himself a year later in Tambov guberniia . |
| 10 | ‘ I was devastated by what the letter said because I never , never used steroids . |
| 11 | On the other hand there was some investment in being able to assess performance such that it was possible to reward people for ‘ good ’ performance , and the group were not entirely able to sort this one out in that it was representing to them a dependent desire to be judged and be judged as good , and yet a refusal to accept the terms upon which judgement was being made in that they felt depersonalized by it ’ |
| 12 | Was writing to her the nearest he could be ? |
| 13 | Nothing more was said about what the scope of review for administrative institutions and inferior courts actually was and no dichotomy was drawn between them . |
| 14 | ‘ Tapeinosis , my dear Appleton ; be humble , be humble , ’ was said to me a score of times , and I imagine to many another student . |
| 15 | This was said to me a year after the announcement at the press conference when Fleischmann and Pons still did not know what caused the heat . |
| 16 | Right , so er yeah , I was looking at her a couple of cheapies in there . |
| 17 | was looking at them the other day and they 're really brilliant . |
| 18 | She was looking at him the way his other nanny looked at her budgie . |
| 19 | Sutton was looking at what the public bought today . |
| 20 | But his eyes were glinting , as if he was looking at something no mere human could see . |
| 21 | Giulia told me he was looking at you the way a starving man looks at a plate of pasta . ’ |
| 22 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 23 | It might be said that the museum was Mrs Gardner 's revenge ; Fenway Court , the remarkable Italian palazzo which she built well outside respectable Boston among the city 's breweries and distilleries , was named by her The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum . |
| 24 | Cos you remember last week we accounted for er He was in the world , and although the world was made through him the world did not recognize him . |
| 25 | Therefore at the Jamaica Conference of the IMF in January 1976 a second amendment to the articles of agreement ( the first amendment being the introduction of SDRs ) was made by which the system of floating exchange rates was legalized . |
| 26 | BY LEAVING FOR AUSTRALIA , Gould was not only side-stepping the wash he had helped to agitate with Darwin ; he was preserving for himself a niche which would forever distinguish him from the motley and profusive competition of all other ornithological illustrators . |
| 27 | I am so excited , I have n't slept since I was told about it a couple of days ago . ’ |
| 28 | But I was told about it the night before I was released ! |
| 29 | In the case of ordering YAC probes , a modified distance measure was used in which the influence of each cosmid clone c was weighted in proportion to 1/n c , where n c is the number of YAC probes positive for that cosmid clone . |
| 30 | He drew in a deep icy breath , then straightened his shoulders , a habit he was forcing upon himself a lot of late , then made his way towards the kitchen , to be greeted by Mary with , ‘ He 's gone then ? ’ |