Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [pron] the " 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 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 ! ’
5 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 .
6 It was explained to her the day they moved in . ’
7 ‘ I was devastated by what the letter said because I never , never used steroids .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 But I was told about it the night before I was released !
13 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 .
14 And , now she had found him , there was born in her the need to give .
15 But when the door was locked behind me the cell was dark for there was neither window nor electric light .
16 The comparison that I made in The Independent newspaper was based on what the Secretary of State 's own review had recommended as the number required to run the system .
17 But good old butter was replaced by what the label described as ‘ vegetable and animal fat ’ .
18 Last night , very little was known about what the three men had been doing .
19 Suddenly a mechanism was provided by which the brain ( which may or may not be considered in some way related to the mind ) could intrude on the elementary processes of message reception and transmission .
20 Evidence from Brean Down , Somerset , is not so clear , but there were drastic changes , and evidence of demolition was followed by what the excavator , A. M. ApSimon , depicts as ‘ squatter occupation ’ .
21 You know I did , I was entranced by them the other day .
22 Her heart was touched by what the duchess had offered her and by what had been asked of herself in return .
23 At a later interview he was asked for what the Nobel had been awarded ; Eliot replied that he assumed it was for " the entire corpus " and the reporter asked , " When did you publish that ? "
24 If I was left to it the first pint would go about
25 Or , in mystic vein , an order of being was glimpsed in which the 1840s , the 1860s , nihilism , Bazarov , found themselves apocalyptically and teleologically disposed — those two polysyllabic adverbs embracing and transcended all nature , including futurity .
26 An air traffic control clearance was issued in which the aircraft was cleared to the Goose VOR and maintain 6,000 feet .
27 Concern was expressed at what the effect would be when attaching a means-tested service to a free one .
28 He was deposed by what the Western Church regards as the 8th Ecumenical Council .
29 Enlightenment was urged on me the day I saw the old Jew float to the surface of the deep latrine , how he splashed and struggled into life , and was hoisted out by the jubilant guards , his clothes cleansed by the mire .
30 19–2 A meeting of the Water Committee was held at which the principal business was the handing over of money collected .
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