Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , land inside the older towns was acquiring a scarcity value , above all in the towns that were surrounded by open fields , so that they could not grow outwards ( see Chapter 9 ) , and a steady rise in the price of land for building was added to the rise in the price of borrowed money . |
| 2 | The passing of the Midwives Act owed more to pre-war pressures and commitments than to post-war Conservative policy , although its passage through Parliament was assisted by the revelations during wartime or the poor physical condition of many of the working SDF and the COS had provided free or subsidized meals for needy schoolchildren . |
| 3 | ( 2 ) Where the Council has within three months beginning with the date when an application for recognition was received by the Council neither granted nor refused recognition , an appeal to the Master of the Rolls may be brought under paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Act as if the application had been refused by the Council . |
| 4 | Unlike in the private sector , borrowing for investment was treated in the same way as borrowing to finance current spending ( on labour or raw materials ) . |
| 5 | The very high level of demand for labour was maintained throughout the late sixties and early seventies by the trend of capital accumulation . |
| 6 | A changeover switch for conduit/overhead was fixed under the stairs at each end of the car . |
| 7 | Paired data for laser energy per month required and for frequency of endoscopic treatment before and after radiotherapy were analysed with the Wilcoxon signed rank test . |
| 8 | All specimens were assayed in at least two dilutions and samples taken before and after eradication were assayed within the same batch . |
| 9 | The morphometric parameters of the jejunal biopsy specimens before and after challenge were analysed by the discriminant function analysis . |
| 10 | The arrangements for auditing were reorganized by the Local Government Finance Act 1982 and the Audit Commission it established was given powers to undertake ‘ value for money ’ studies designed to help the efficiency of local authorities . |
| 11 | Fife 's application for assistance was based on the need to reduce dependence on the defence sector and increase the level of product development within the manufacturing sector . |
| 12 | In the 15 sign languages analysed , the following signs were found for LAUGH , HELP and ( tell a ) LIE , In all 15 sign languages , the sign for LAUGH was located at the mouth or lower cheek ; the hand was either held with index finger extended , or index and thumb extended and moved from side to side . |
| 13 | The adjustment of population through migration was prompted by the existence of higher unemployment levels in northern Britain throughout the period since 1921 ; these peaked in the year 1932 , when over 2,750,000 people were unemployed . |
| 14 | In 1961 , it is estimated , 682,000 gallons of whisky were consumed by the French , and that was twice as much as in 1960 . |
| 15 | The small intestine was then perfused with either PES or an ORS at 0.5 ml/min for one hour to ensure steady state conditions , after which three successive 10 minute collections of effluent were made from the distal cannula . |
| 16 | An important body of support was secured to the alliance by the decision taken at the Annual Conference of the Co-operative Party by 2,343,000 votes to 1,547,000 to endorse the Reynolds news manifesto . |
| 17 | The original connections for the panels had been removed from the edge girders in 1951 , and a system of support was introduced for the new panels . |
| 18 | Among other parties , unexpectedly low levels of support were recorded for the Green Party ( which did , however , win seats in the Slovak National Council ) , the Socialist Party and Social Democrats . |
| 19 | Marx 's theory of change was based on the growing contradiction that arose in society between the technological side of production and the social system with which it was associated . |
| 20 | The British Crime Survey found that only about 8 per cent of incidents of vandalism were recorded in the official statistics , compared with 48 per cent of burglaries , and 100 per cent of thefts of motor-vehicles . |
| 21 | More than £2,000 worth of vandalism was caused to the hall but no evidence was produced connecting this with Oddy . |
| 22 | The legal entitlement to common of pasture was defined by the ‘ couchant and levant rule ’ — that is to say , commoners were allowed common for no more cattle than they could keep on their own land during the winter months when they were excluded from the forest . |
| 23 | It was like being in the top of the oak tree again , except this time the shimmer of woodland was transformed into the dream-like rhythm of words . |
| 24 | The name of the country was changed from the Mongolian People 's Republic to the State of Mongolia , and the yellow star of communism was removed from the state flag . |
| 25 | A degree of freedom was afforded to the Gascon nobility by the prevalence of allodial tenures , whereby no immediate lord was recognized , in certain parts of the region . |
| 26 | Suppose a Royal Society of Building were formed as the professional home for all the professionals involved in building . |
| 27 | If no regeneration of mycelium was observed on the minimal medium without uridine , it was concluded that the nuclei had lost the ura + transforming gene during growth on non-selective medium . |
| 28 | From each transformant , small pieces of mycelium were picked at the thallus periphery and grown on minimal medium with or without uridine . |
| 29 | An orgy of denunciations and evasions of responsibility was unleashed throughout the upper and middle levels of the bureaucracy . |
| 30 | The queen herself was quite ready to concede that her area of responsibility was confined to the administration and jurisdiction of the church and did not extend to defining ‘ any article or point of the Christian faith and religion ’ . |