Example sentences of "[pron] the [noun] was [vb pp] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court held that no offence was committed in that case , since the person at whom the conduct was directed was an undercover policeman who was unlikely to be provoked to violence , and no offence would be committed under the Act either , for the same reasons . |
| 2 | Complainants often end up disillusioned with the system of redress and angry with the whole medical profession ; and the doctor against whom the complaint was made is often also traumatised by the experience . |
| 3 | However the League conference at which the decision was made was seriously divided . |
| 4 | The crusades were preached by the official Church ; but the enthusiasm with which the preaching was greeted was due to a wide variety of emotions , of which zeal for a different doctrine from the pope 's was one of the most powerful . |
| 5 | The promoter from which the fragment was isolated is indicated above each panel . |
| 6 | In the present case , the immediate proceeding in which the order was made was not the cause or matter to which the section refers . |
| 7 | The marble-stucco with which the rest was washed is gone with the colour , and the stone has weathered badly . |
| 8 | The original novel from which the film was adapted was light , comical and whimsical , yet despite the author 's own involvement in the adaptation , the film version was unrelentingly crude and insensitive to the subject it was treating . |
| 9 | The hermetic atmosphere in which the election was conducted was a celebration of the monotheistic religion of the market system , the diminishing of our capacity to change the world , the extinction of social hope . |
| 10 | Because the UK clearly benefited from the capping of VAT and the introduction of the new fourth resource , the basic amount to which the UK was entitled was to be adjusted to a " reference compensation amount " . |
| 11 | Sex discrimination in employment is a matter dealt with by European law , and the tribunal referred a number of questions to the European Court of Justice which held , inter alia , that the Order in Council under which the certificate was issued was inconsistent with a requirement of EC law that the right of men and women to equal treatment recognized by EC law should be effectively protected by national legal systems . |
| 12 | It may be that the major mischief at which the Act was directed was the mischief which has become endemic of persons using one computer to hack into another computer . |
| 13 | Prior to AD 625 the sources are southerly , Lyon , Provençal , Vienne , Marseilles and Arles , whereas after that date the mints from which the coin was derived are mainly in the Meuse and Moselle regions , such as Limoges and Paris ( Rigold 1975 ) . |
| 14 | Above the beam round which the rope was tied was a platform where the top of the ladder rested . |
| 15 | The actual damage alleged to have been suffered by the plaintiffs may be an example of a kind or range of potential damage which was foreseeable , and if the act or omission by which the damage was caused is identifiable it may put one on the trail of a possible duty of care of which the act or omission would be a breach . |
| 16 | The foot was tenoned to the end of the beam and mortised to the chep ; the chep to which the share was fixed was five feet four inches long and five inches deep ; the share of hammered iron weighed thirty pounds and the upper end of the beam rested on a carriage with two three-foot wheels . |
| 17 | If rumour speaks true , the pattern on which the plan was based was obsolescent before the second five-year phase of the plan was far advanced . |
| 18 | Fourth , if the standard terms upon which the contract was made were put forward by the party seeking protection , then he has no protection under s 3 against an exclusion clause which he himself has put in his conditions , if the other party chooses to rely on it . |
| 19 | The basis on which the vote was given was that of property . |
| 20 | The year in which the product was made is shown by the number in the middle of the circle . |
| 21 | The cups in which the k'miss was brought were each cut from an individual chunk of crystal chased with gold . |
| 22 | The amount of bills bought in each band , the type of bill and the interest rate at which the deal was made are published after both the morning and afternoon sessions . |
| 23 | In addition to the administrative setting of the record , a detailed account of the technical environment in which the record was created is also required — for example , did encoding of information take place , and if so how was this performed ? |
| 24 | These do require a certain degree of inference , but it is clear that under some conditions such remains can suggest the name of a sponsor , the reason for sponsorship , and the presence of a respected craftsmen or group of craftsmen At Avenches — and probably at Bavay — in France , and at Seriana and Timgad in North Africa , the names of individual craftsmen are attested ( although , as is shown by the inscription from Timgad , even differing ideas of the practice in which the craftsman was involved are apparent ) . |
| 25 | Even the crucibles or pots in which the steel was made were produced here , and the pot shop can still be seen . |
| 26 | Circumstances can arise which are difficult to anticipate ; for example , one site with which the author was involved was situated over a mile from the sea , but part of the site was on ground made up from Elizabethan times and included a harbour wall . |
| 27 | One site with which the author was involved was delayed for two years , with constant revision to the proposed design . |
| 28 | The first idea on which the report was based was that the home civil service ( the foreign and colonial services were not included ) should be organized as a single body of men with a common system of recruitment based on academic ability . |
| 29 | All the non-matrimonial cases of which the start was observed were concluded without litigation — although four years later one was settled within a week of a scheduled county court hearing . |
| 30 | On that basis he submitted that , having regard to the terms of the Treaty between Sweden and the United Kingdom , set out in Schedule 1 to the Sweden ( Extradition ) Order 1966 , the crimes of which the applicant was accused were not extradition crimes within the definition of that expression in paragraph 20 of Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 . |