Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [adj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comparisons between the three race groups were between those living in the same small areas i.e. in roughly the same circumstances , rather than over a whole city or London borough . |
| 2 | I would also be interested to know what other paths they had walked and what their perceptions were of these compared to the Staffordshire Way . |
| 3 | Stepan and Ilya Holovich were amongst those transported in the sealed wagons through Lvov and Krakow and Prague to Essen . |
| 4 | and erm as usual this was erm , this created a bit of controversy because erm temporary staff , according to the reading of the minute , did n't er , were n't entitled to war bonus because erm , they 'd been appointed at a certain salary and er that was that and er , but in the end we managed to get our war bonus as well so we were on equal pegging with the , with the other staff . |
| 5 | The PDF issued a ‘ war communique ’ saying three senior officers , including the head of military intelligence , were among 37 arrested after the coup attempt . |
| 6 | Black community representatives in Watts were among those calling for a decisive police response . |
| 7 | Tanjug also claimed 36 children were among those killed at the weekend and police fired into the bodies of the wounded . |
| 8 | When Iraqi Kurdish civilians were among those killed during the operations there were protests from the Iraqi government , the two Iraqi Kurdish organizations and also the German government . |
| 9 | Two of Unita 's top leaders , Jeremias Chitunda and Elias Salupeto Pena were among those killed in the capital . |
| 10 | Alia announced a ministerial reshuffle on July 9 in which some leading hardliners were among those dismissed from the government . |
| 11 | Sir Anthony Hopkins and Robbie Coltrane were among those linked to the part but both have previous commitments . |
| 12 | The author of the Vindiciae similarly asserts that since " none were ever born with crowns on their heads and sceptres in their hands , and [ since ] no man can be a king by himself , nor reign without a people … it must of necessity follow , that kings were at first constituted by the people . " |
| 13 | Sweating remained , child labour survived , and reformers could still find terrible poverty to expose , but improving conditions meant rising expectations , even though these were at first limited to a few . |
| 14 | It was made the more difficult because the Iranians were at one remove from the hostage-takers ; even at best , all they could promise was to lean on Hizbollah and ask for a favour . |
| 15 | During the next half hour they worked in this way , and when the empty cases and the bed covers were at last placed on the cart , Aggie locked the door , then hesitated for a moment , wondering what to do with the key . |
| 16 | Mr Ramaphosa suggested that the government timed the arrests in order to delay the talks precisely when they were at last poised for a breakthrough . |
| 17 | But he adapts , not without pain ; and even the most romantic heroine learns to accept , like the heroine of Anita Brookner 's Providence ( 1982 ) , that her lover was after all bound in the end to prefer another . |
| 18 | Yet the Commonwealth was after all invented at a time when the British were more than ever enamoured of their capacity for effecting the bloodless obedience of subject peoples . |
| 19 | You know cos the woman I was with wanted to go for a swim and I said no you ca n't this guy , so I went up to him , I said what , what on earth are you fishing for ? |
| 20 | Hitherto a semi-independent region of western China ruled by a Dalai Lama , the head of Tibet 's Buddhist clergy and thus its spiritual leader , Tibet was in 1950 occupied by the Chinese communist People 's Liberation Army ( PLA ) . |
| 21 | Hitherto a semi-independent region of western China ruled by the Dalai Lama , the head of Tibet 's Buddhist clergy and its spiritual leader , Tibet was in 1950 occupied by the communist Chinese People 's Liberation Army ( PLA ) . |
| 22 | In considering the attractions of this new discourse on culture , it is worth noting that , despite pressures to put a " vocational " gloss on arts education , the mood of the post-war intelligentsia was in general moving to the right , away from a concern with social issues . |
| 23 | Computer technology was giving rise to a variety of innovative developments , and the field was in general pioneered by the CNAA and its institutions before the universities took up the challenge . |
| 24 | Bill Sanderson was in 1972 encouraged by the then art editor of New Society , Charlie Ridell , to experiment with scraper-board to cope with the poor letterpress reproduction that was not uncommon at the time . |
| 25 | It was this potential distortion of competition that was in particular invoked by the Community institutions when they started to enact environmental and consumer protection legislation during the 1970s . |
| 26 | This time the message was addressed to his friend John Macnab , who was among those kneeling before the altar of Our Lady of the Seven Dolours . |
| 27 | Augustus Aikhomu , who had been Chief of General Staff until the abolition of the post and his appointment as Vice-President on Aug. 30 [ see p. 37644 ] , was among those retiring from the forces , but he remained a member of the governing Armed Forces Ruling Council ( AFRC ) . |
| 28 | Irish diplomats mounted a full-scale search in Argentina , and eventually found that the girl was among those rescued from The Family during the police raids . |
| 29 | Their last known descendant , Nathaniel Salperton , was among those executed after the Monmouth rebellion in 1685 . |
| 30 | But despite Darwin 's efforts , evolutionism was at first absorbed into the search for a universal order . |