Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The focus of change was organisational arrangements , in the sanguine belief that if the framework of the school was altered then the processes of education which it enshrined would also alter to support a strong definition of equality of opportunity . |
| 2 | This rating was given immediately the subject heard the bleep in the centre of the junction . |
| 3 | I was given only the pau . ’ |
| 4 | There is some evidence of the pope 's personal position on several issues — his reluctance to declare the count of Toulouse excommunicate , his care to see that Simon de Montfort was given only the wardship of the count 's lands , and his snubbing of Archbishop Siegfried of Mainz for his inopportune intervention , three times ordering him to sit down . |
| 5 | This identity of message was recognized down the line , and had the effect that one would have expected . |
| 6 | There was that chap that was sacked up the country was n't he ? |
| 7 | One case was reported whereby the intervention of the local inspectorate had resulted in one afternoon per week being set aside for INSET . |
| 8 | Then she remembered her night-gown was torn down the front where Faith Caskie had ripped it . |
| 9 | Or if she was torn then the doctor would come er and stitch her up . |
| 10 | In a number of cases , grain was carried up the canal to the docks , was transhipped , and promptly retraced its steps along the canal to Saul Junction where it passed onto the Stroudwater Canal . |
| 11 | And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power , navigational gear or a radio transmitter . |
| 12 | 1836 It was moved that the dinner which had been assessed on the public be discontinued and was carried on the casting vote of the Chairman . |
| 13 | Some of Kelly 's classmates lost the fight to hold back the tears as soon as her coffin was carried down the aisle . |
| 14 | We unlashed the mooring cables almost as the last bag of cement was carried down the gangplank . |
| 15 | Of course when the baths were made there were ladies days and gents days , mixed bathing was considered not the thing in these days , but it did come in in the twenty or the , or the late twenties . |
| 16 | No , that was picked out the history book |
| 17 | And tobacco ash was spilt down the front of his evening shirt . |
| 18 | On January 1 , 1982 , Coetzee was transferred too the drugs squad . |
| 19 | The widening of the franchise in the nineteenth century , House of Lords reform , and votes for women in the twentieth — these are issues that aroused great emotion and were fiercely opposed but on which reform was accepted once the government of the day had got the measure accepted by Parliament . |
| 20 | In general , twice as much crosslinking was seen when the amount of protein was doubled . |
| 21 | It was said just the way the woman and Brenner had said it , Das Kampflugzeug , like The Event , and Scholz saw Maxim 's puzzlement . |
| 22 | The following season he made 64 not out as nightwatchman against Trinidad , was moved up the order in the second innings , and responded with 188 ; a year later , in 1943–4 , also against Trinidad , he and John Goddard put on an undefeated 502 for the fourth wicket , at the time the third highest partnership in first-class cricket . |
| 23 | Furthermore , a settlement arrangement was made whereby the creditor countries could exchange on a monthly basis their accumulations of the weaker currencies ( which they had been buying in the EC exchange markets ) for some other form of reserve asset . |
| 24 | On Poland , an arrangement was made whereby the Communists would form a joint administration with elements of the London government-in-exile , but this did not prevent the country 's long-term domination by Moscow . |
| 25 | Marital work was accepted by these parents in an effort to solve the problem , and progress was made once the father finally admitted that he had been told at work that he was too domineering and was unable to delegate responsibility to his juniors . |
| 26 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 27 | Christian political sources had warned that unless Major Serhal was freed immediately the incident would be a severe blow to Arab-sponsored peace efforts . |
| 28 | The public was shown how the hobby is organised , obtained copies the hobby 's Code of Conduct , as well as a list of manufacturers and retailers of detectors and associated equipment . |
| 29 | This type of shift was slit down the back for ease of application and secured with back-tie draw-strings at the neck and waist ; such items were , it is assumed , readily available from the undertaker . |
| 30 | A recent meeting at the Royal Society was told how the properties of a transparent film can be transformed by making microscopic markings . |