Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [det] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robin Launders , Manchester United 's finance director , told ACCOUNTANCY that the company thought it appropriate to disclose the value attributed to players in the directors ' report in a similar way to the publication of information when properties were worth more than the balance sheet value . |
| 2 | Yet since these can not have presented much of an obstacle , they were of little or no use against large and determined forces of men , against whom only walled towns and castles constituted reasonably sure places of safety . |
| 3 | The only evidence as to the value of Caliban was that it was worth less than the $2.5m. in fact paid . |
| 4 | To the east of the Abbey precinct , the manor of Abbot 's Barton stretched for nearly three miles towards Upton St Leonards , and it was through this that the waterways and mills were constructed . |
| 5 | The issue was about more than the Chairman 's statue , however . |
| 6 | He fell silent as if this was of little or no account . |
| 7 | Its weight could be further reduced by removing the cooling jacket , and it was like this that the Lewis gun was used as a hand-directed weapon on Allied aircraft . |
| 8 | Lewis 's popularity was part of this , and it was with more than a scent of victory in the air , victory over the agnostics and freethinkers , that he consented to be involved with the foundation of the Socratic Club in Oxford in 1941 . |
| 9 | And they used to let us come out of the pit at three quarter time , there were six of us , all of a size , strong as young bulls and er we used to have to i if the body was within less than a mile from the church , you see ? |
| 10 | By the early 1960s only two small herds of perhaps a dozen pedigree animals remained and it was from these that the society , revived yet again in 1982 and with the help of various organisations including the Rare Breeds Survival Trust , formed a new herdbook in 1983 in an attempt to save the breed from extinction . |
| 11 | It was from this that the tabernacle was furnished ( 35:20ff . ) . |
| 12 | It was at these that the onlookers were chuckling . |