Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the effect of experience on temperament is still limited by the horse 's genetic traits — for example , if both the naturally placid horse and the naturally nervous horse were brought up in the same rough environment , then the placid horse would still be less timid than the nervous one . |
| 2 | RELIEF , anger and fear were felt yesterday in the scattered communities near the factory car park where an American EF-111 jet crashed on Thursday just yards from where 45 people were working . |
| 3 | In Argentina , serious negotiations with the state oil firm YPF were broken off after the 1930 coup . |
| 4 | The Athenians , 4000 hoplites ( Aristophanes , Lysistrata 1143 ) and their commander Kimon were sent home by the Spartans , who feared what Thucydides , echoed by Plutarch , calls their neoteropiïa , their subversive tendencies . |
| 5 | The few remaining tanks of the Chelonian assault force were moving rapidly over the rock towards them . |
| 6 | Notes for Guidance were distributed together with the Parliamentary statement , indicating how individual schemes were to be prepared with the object of creating ‘ institutions which can be developed as comprehensive academic communities offering a wide range of disciplines and catering for full-time , sandwich and part-time students at all levels of higher education ’ . |
| 7 | Most of the forms of publicity through print discussed in the first section of this chapter were taken up by the West Indians . |
| 8 | Just after releasing the torpedo five searchlights , two from the breakwaters and three from the Harbour were switched directly onto the aircraft . |
| 9 | The opportunities for commercial exploitation of the hiking boom were grasped readily by the railway companies who offered cheap day returns to hikers . |
| 10 | Hailey 's reservations about Indirect Rule were based purely upon the practical consideration that in its dogmatic insistence on working only through the authentic traditional leadership it excluded other , possibly more effective , methods of securing the essential ‘ degree of acquiescence ’ in British rule . |
| 11 | Small flakes of rock were dropping out of the roof around the ring pitons . |
| 12 | The immediate effects of that philosophical rationalism were felt only by the intelligentsia . |
| 13 | It makes clear , firstly , that Eighth Army and AF HQ were brought fully into the picture as to the methods being used by 5 Corps to effect the repatriation of the anti-Tito Yugoslavs and , after all the discussions which had gone on in previous days , gave those methods their complete support . |
| 14 | The strike call was endorsed and Local Councils of Action were set up throughout the country , to await events . |
| 15 | If action were taken early before the restoration of the pavements outside the Cornmill Centre there would be less work to be done on the scheme . |
| 16 | Ominous little gusts of wind were digging playfully in the nearby litter bin and scattering crisp packets about . |
| 17 | In addition , the regular meetings with West Germany under the 1963 Treaty of Friendship were yielding little in the way of positive results . |
| 18 | Although there is no written evidence to substantiate this , no major repairs or maintenance were carried out on the machinery , and it is evident that it performed well from the start . |
| 19 | Relegation followed , and the hopelessly over-stretched club were sliding back towards the Fourth Division when Toshack resigned in 1984 . |
| 20 | After Zarathustra 's death his religion was taken up by the old priestly class known as the Magi and eventually became the faith of the Achaemenid dynasty . |
| 21 | Her glance was drawn back to the bed again when , clearly befuddled , and with no idea how he came to be where he was , he slurred , ‘ How did I get here ? ’ |
| 22 | That nakedness was broken only by the slim white garter belt around her perfect waist and the pure silk stockings which encased her shapely legs . |
| 23 | A family planning association was set up by the Government in 1972 , and the Government 's First Five Year Plan proposed the promotion of several different types of birth control . |
| 24 | A typewriter was clacking disjointedly in the next room . |
| 25 | The stranger was led back through the empty trains to the car shed pits where he could gain access to the street . |
| 26 | The deal was clinched today between the new owners of Pergamon , and the National Union of Journalists . |
| 27 | Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute . |
| 28 | If a deal was hammered out with the banks , an accompanying rights issue to raise up to £400m from existing private shareholders was likely next spring . |
| 29 | The deal was welcomed enthusiastically by the City and the financial press . |
| 30 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |