Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] was [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The further away from the making of the contract it was made the more likely it is to be considered as a misrepresentation . |
| 2 | Within a hundred years of the missionaries ' arrival many English men and women had enthusiastically adopted the monasticism which was considered the purest form of the Christian life and the surest way to salvation , and which had spread throughout western Europe in the fifth and sixth centuries . |
| 3 | What is surprising is that the group which was told the topic immediately after the reading was not able to make any use of the information ; they did just as poorly as the " no topic " group . |
| 4 | But the woman who was born the youngest of seven children in Tiger Bay in Cardiff has always lived life to the full . |
| 5 | The man who was owed the money planned to take her two sons as slaves . |
| 6 | Then out of the blue he was given the go-ahead to play again . |
| 7 | The rise in unemployment in the early 1970s brought about even more improvements in the scheme which was renamed the Employment Transfer Scheme in 1972 . |
| 8 | As third man in the party I was given the job of carrying the large FRCC guidebook of those days . |
| 9 | By the time I was involved the business had chalked up losses for many years and was in deep trouble . |
| 10 | by the marriage of the testator , unless it appears from the will that at the time it was made the testator was expecting to be married to a particular person , and that he intended that the will ( or a particular disposition in the will ) should not be revoked by that marriage , and that marriage takes place . |
| 11 | Both VLCCs and ULCCs were used , including the ill-fated Seawise Giant , at the time she was hit the largest ship afloat at 564,739 tonnes . |