Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] the [noun] was [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wealthy ladies , doing a little charitable slumming , as well as a few shopkeepers ' wives , bought the pretty baby clothes , and the doll she had dressed went for a fabulous price , to be given to some little girl more fortunate than those for whom the money was being raised . |
| 2 | They were the framework through which the region was being administered . |
| 3 | After the weekend , the Unionist Whips decided that they had taken things far enough , having wasted an entire week of parliamentary time and given their supporters a sign of the vigour with which the fight was being waged . |
| 4 | Books and pamphlets directed at children and parents , conferences and public meetings , together with the formation of influential pressure groups , all testified to the seriousness with which the issue was being treated . |
| 5 | Unfortunately for him the work was being done close to the room where one of the most lively goats lived . |
| 6 | The extent to which the landscape was being farmed and the efficiency of agricultural practices may be measured by the frequency with which farms were abandoned for new sites . |
| 7 | Jonathan Scott , Chairman of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art has produced another of his elegantly written reports on how successful or otherwise Britain has been at retaining its preeminent works of art : the tally , eighteen out of forty-four retained — that is , a public institution or , in the case of the Delander stick barometer , a private citizen , has matched the price at which the item was being exported . |