Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] [was/were] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , even though there was a misdirection in this respect , their Lordships agreed with the advocate depute that that misdirection was plainly to the advantage of the first appellant . |
| 2 | Delta had taught him that fear was all in the mind . |
| 3 | On Forgive 'N Forget 's most recent outing he had run fourth behind Combs Ditch at Haydock Park , and that horse was also in the Gold Cup field , third favourite after a highly successful season which had brought him three good prizes and a neck defeat by Wayward Lad in the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park . |
| 4 | Her career in geography began at a time when , in Britain , this field was still among the less fully organized of the sciences . |
| 5 | Although , therefore , quite high , the rate of referral in this study was well within the range for different areas . |
| 6 | This effect was less in the intention-to-treat analysis : 3/30 vs 9/30 ( relative risk=0.33 , CI=0.10–1.11 , p=0.106 ) . |
| 7 | Obviously this flexibility was frequently to the client 's advantage , but it was also open to abuse . |
| 8 | This engine was still in the original crate and had only six hours on it as the result of run-up tests done at the factory in 1944 . |
| 9 | This green was then under the wood approximately where the 5th tees are now , and very prone to dampness . |
| 10 | Penda 's presence in the environs of Cirencester against the kings of the Gewisse , at about the time he became king of the Mercians , provides a glimpse of how advanced this process was even by the early seventh century . |
| 11 | But the discrepancy is more important than that : Qaddafi held out the promise of statelessness , of the absence of centralized control , and this failure was therefore at the centre of his political theory . |
| 12 | A discussion of this initiative was undoubtedly on the agenda of Soviet-DRA talks when the DRA Foreign Minister , Dost , visited Moscow in mid March 1980 . |
| 13 | This ambiguity was much to the taste of men whose drive was probably homosexual . |
| 14 | This footbridge was however at the other end of the platform , and most passengers got into the habit of going to the station exit across the tracks despite the standard railway warnings not to do so . |
| 15 | This problem was also before the Roman lawyers and it must exist in all systems of law . |
| 16 | And by 1920 this system was allegedly in the process of disintegration and revolutionary collapse . |
| 17 | After the destruction of Strangeways prison and the dispute with the POA over conditions this option was again on the agenda in 1990 . |
| 18 | In the end Harry Truman decided that he really could n't stomach any more of Douglas MacArthur this , this guy was clearly off the planet , you know er and so er President Truman sacked MacArthur and er replaced him as commander in Korea . |
| 19 | Their discontent at this time was principally with the social realism of the muralist school but , even at this early date , there was unease with the propaganda emanating from the US that Abstract Expressionism was the only possible alternative . |
| 20 | Mr M by this time was away on the outer islands for four days a week . |
| 21 | Committee Chairman Helen Martini , however , said that if any such decision was really in the best interests of the children , they would happily go along with it . |
| 22 | As it turned out , rather too much excitement was just around the corner . |
| 23 | Several of the pilots from that period were still with the squadron , including the tough Canadian C.O. , Sqd.Ldr . |
| 24 | The chair for each group was seldom from the teaching staff . |
| 25 | Then , too , Jackie made a misjudgement in 1966 and 1967 : he stayed in BRM when that team was already on the slippery slope towards oblivion . |
| 26 | The GPs were as divided as they were independent , and being geographically isolated from each other were rather like the French peasants described by Marx ( 1953 ) as ‘ potatoes in a sack ’ . |
| 27 | That performance was enough for the bookmakers to make The Fellow favourite for this afternoon 's big one . |
| 28 | My own mob was right at the front of the fuss : we did n't want any more secret organisations on our patch . ’ |
| 29 | She could even forgive him the talk about having her committed , now that that possibility was safely in the past and she was making progress on her own . |
| 30 | It is more appropriate to accept the view of D. P. Walker that magic was always on the point of turning into art , science , practical psychology , or , above all , religion . |