Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often the only way for that to happen was for those already in the cities to move out and for those contemplating a move in not to come . |
| 2 | Among the aristocracy the growth of vast entails was consistently favoured by lawyers ' evasions of the ‘ doctrine of incompatibility ’ , designed to prevent accumulation of entailed estates . |
| 3 | It seems most likely that an appreciable quantity of unreduced bis(2-azidoethyl)ether was still present in the ‘ diamine ’ . |
| 4 | Lord Aldington told the jury that the fate of many of those repatriated was awful . |
| 5 | One of those killed was a suspect turned witness in the April 1989 murder of a prominent property developer . |
| 6 | These suspicions were fuelled when it was discovered that one of those killed was not employed at the mine . |
| 7 | A major defence by many of those prosecuted was that the enclosures had taken place before the practice had been made an offence , and although the practice continued after this date there is good reason to believe that this was often the case . |
| 8 | But equally , MDC in its first eight years was not a major generator of jobs — and the individual cost of those created was extremely high . |
| 9 | One of those charged was George Finbar O'Doherty , who was alleged to have given a command in Irish to the colour party . |
| 10 | One of those to die was a naturalist and an Admiral in the Roman Navy , Caius Plinius or Pliny the Elder , who was a much-respected man and widely-known in his own time . |
| 11 | One of those misled was Trotsky himself , who completely misread the real import of what Bukharin had written , as we shall see in the next chapter . |
| 12 | One of those to fall was Rick Bartlett , Somerset 's top scorer with 56 off 119 balls with seven fours . |
| 13 | But the crush of those fleeing was too much and the officers were swamped . |
| 14 | The English haul of booty and prisoners was enormous : the list of those captured was headed by the king himself , together with his son Philip , the Archbishop of Sens , the Comte of Tancarville , the Comte of Sancerre , the Vicomte of Narbonne , the Seneschal of Poitou and the Comte of Ventadour . |
| 15 | The number of those arrested was put by the government at 1,900 ; by the PPP at 27,000 , and by the local press at about 15,000 . |
| 16 | One of those arrested was conference director Abdurakhim Pulatov ( who was later reported to be in a Tashkent prison ) . |
| 17 | Software managers were said to be deciding which projects to kill at a Geneva meeting last week — one of those mentioned was the Network Application System . |
| 18 | Turning to collective behaviour , opinion of those interviewed was divided on the effect of television on attendance in the Chamber . |
| 19 | Day 1 ) Discovered that the rumour of a constant flow of 25,000 cfs was false . |
| 20 | In ways such as these coinage was used for contemporary propaganda . |
| 21 | Amongst those detained was a Belgian Member of the European Parliament who had earlier disclosed to the newspapers plans for a 3 km-wide ‘ waste island ’ off Zeebrugge . |
| 22 | Amongst those indicted was Song Kap Suk , Chondaehyop 's leader . |
| 23 | Amongst those arrested was Kim Keun Tae , an internationally recognized dissident who had been imprisoned from 1985 to 1988 , who was detained on May 13 , accused of organizing the May 9 protests . |
| 24 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 25 | Here for all to see was the great lesson of World War I : the machine-gun made direct attack too costly even to contemplate . |
| 26 | Feedback from those attending was positive and it is intended that , after some refining , the workshops will be made available to all colleges . |
| 27 | Among those deported was a woman who , accompanied by her young child , fled to the UK to join her sister , Ljubitza Kendall , who lives in Leicestershire . |
| 28 | Among those elected was a former dissident , Daniel Chipenda , who had earlier put himself forward as a candidate for a new post of vice-chairman of the party . |
| 29 | Among those elected was a former dissident . " |
| 30 | Among those elected was Faris Buwayz , who had resigned as Minister of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs in August in protest at the elections . |