Example sentences of "[noun sg] the [noun sg] was [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In return the king was granted the tax he sought , a ninth , which was to be used exclusively for the war . |
| 2 | The moment the Queen was warned the photos would appear in the Daily Mirror , she ordered copies to be made available to her as soon as possible . |
| 3 | On the day the treaty was signed the Heads of Government of Egypt and Israel sent a joint letter to the President of the United States confirming their understanding that the United States would participate in all stages of the negotiation . |
| 4 | There were no photocopying machines in those days so from the day the collection was shown the sketchers had to work frantically for two or three weeks afterwards from about eight to midnight drawing models for all the clients . |
| 5 | By the time the alarm was raised the three raiders , one of them armed with a handgun , had fled the museum in Chelsea , London . |
| 6 | It was held ( a ) that it was a statement of present fact , namely that at the time the letter was sent the traveller had a definite and certain booking , ( b ) that that statement was false because the airline 's overbooking policy meant that the traveller 's booking was exposed to a risk that it might not give a seat on the aircraft , and ( c ) that the airline made the false statement knowingly ( and not merely recklessly ) since the airline was well aware of its own overbooking policy . |
| 7 | Membership of the Founders ' Trust had changed frequently in the quest to find more women , working-class people and blacks , but at the time the prospectus was issued the original five Founders — Lowe , Walsh , Cooper , Sadgrove and Power — had been joined by a mixture of others . |
| 8 | Naturally most of the boys opted for ‘ the strip ’ and each time the innuendo was made the girls pretended it was terribly witty and original , If a little naughty , just as they did when they were asked for the twentieth time if perhaps they might be the prize . |
| 9 | The period within which the charge is vulnerable is two years after its creation and there is no need to show that at the time the charge was created the company was insolvent . |