Example sentences of "was [verb] [coord] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1991 there were fewer people killed on the roads in Lothian than at any time since 1975 when the Region was formed and at the same time the Region experienced the second lowest casualty total . |
| 2 | In the former case the profits arose where the property was situated and in the latter case where the rights were exercisable . |
| 3 | Diem was assassinated and in the space of 1962–64 , South Vietnam had three presidents . |
| 4 | Smith was writing as the era of good harvests and cheap food was ending and before the onset of demographic acceleration . |
| 5 | The power of traditional chiefs was curbed and for the first time women and young people were drawn into the political process . |
| 6 | Here they gave poetry readings in the 800-seat auditorium ; a measure of the man he was becoming and of the distinguished company he kept . |
| 7 | And so he went the north end and got whatever it was he was wanting and on the way back he stopped at farm to watch . |
| 8 | And it begs the question on whose authority the nursing home place was accepted and at the price asked . |
| 9 | I was writing and on the video you 're sitting there going . |
| 10 | If you wish to cancel your booking this must be done in writing from the person in whose name the booking is invoiced to the travel agent through whom the booking was made or to the Invoicing Dept , Redwing Holidays Limited , Groundstar House , London Road , Crawley , West Sussex , RH10 2TB , and sent by Recorded Delivery if you have booked with us direct . |
| 11 | But any economy that was made or in the early days of Hector 's er business , I know , was always saving material rather than time . |
| 12 | When Mary I married Philip of Spain she decreed they ruled England jointly , and for the next few years until Elizabeth came to the throne the following strange convention was adopted for recording their regnal years : On 17 March 1649 the monarchy was abolished and during the period until parliamentary government was overtaken by the Restoration , English official documents were dated by the year of grace . |
| 13 | But there were heavy criticisms during the period it was broadcast and in the following months . |
| 14 | But one winter she got flu , her work was sapped and for the first time the critics were unkind . |
| 15 | He had told no one where he was going but on the following day , Sunday , in the strong light of noon , he had returned to the out-building and searched it thoroughly . |
| 16 | Thatcherism was born and during the last decade there has been record redundancies and bankruptcies within the U K as a whole . |
| 17 | Her sisters Sarah and Jane , her senior by six and four years respectively , were already spending mornings in the downstairs classroom when she was born and by the time Diana was ready to join them they were packing their bags for boarding-school . |
| 18 | A subtle psychological barrier was crossed and at the next two evening sales , as Swiss dealer Jan Krugier says , ‘ The revival of the Impressionist market was astonishing ’ . |
| 19 | This was unnerving and by the time I got to the top I was exhausted . |
| 20 | Fortunately a supply of candles was found and as the competing teams and their supporters arrived they settled down to some serious drinking as darts players do and nearly cleared the stock of bottled beer before the lights came back on . |
| 21 | Once shortly after he was arrested and over the weekend when he was examined by a police surgeon . ’ |
| 22 | Jesus was arrested and in the struggle that followed the high priest 's servant was injured . |
| 23 | In February 1974 a mobile library service was inaugurated and at the end of its first ten years the number of books lent should have grown to nearly twenty times as many . |
| 24 | This theory can be used to predict the sequence of offers before arbitration was involved and in the frequency with which arbitration was used . |
| 25 | As the word spread that potatoes were a very good food to eat people 's reluctance to include potatoes in their diet was overcome and by the end of the 18th Century almost every country in Europe had accepted this knobbly brown tuber as part of their everyday diet . |
| 26 | As Anglican church discipline was tightened and as the Oxford Movement spread its influence throughout the clergy the happy-go-lucky attitude of older Broad and Low Churchmen was put on the defensive . |
| 27 | Lee 's house was left and up the hill , about a mile out of Little Knoll . |
| 28 | However , even at kindergarten his rebellious streak was showing and at the age of five or six he was playing truant . |
| 29 | A gluten free diet was started and over the next two months there was 2.3 kg weight gain and symptomatic improvement . |
| 30 | Rocky was playing and by the sounds of the radio coverage he played well but was substituted towards the end with Strandli coming on to replace him . |