Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were to happen in the case of the CAB , they would have lost their primary purpose as first tier advisory agencies ; there would be duplication of effort , waste of public money and , in all probability , deterioration in the quality of specialised advice provided . ’ |
| 2 | But if there were a sea change , and they became the majority that meat eaters are at present , and if this were fuelled by the arguments of Regan or Singer , then surely it would be reasonable to expect a knock-on effect in the other contentious areas . |
| 3 | If this were felt to be a circular situation a formal decision not to ratify could be deemed to negate signature . |
| 4 | The cloisters surrounding this were begun in 1661 although not finished until 1740 by K. I. Dientzenhofer . |
| 5 | The details of this were given in Part 1 . |
| 6 | Powerful public examples of this were seen in photographs taken after the death of the American president J.F. Kennedy who had become a great folk hero to the American people . |
| 7 | If this were done in the City , the IRA could simply switch their targets to prestigious offices in the provinces . |
| 8 | The Russian frontier , running some 1,450km/900mls from Memel on the Baltic Sea to the Bukovina in northern Romania , was highly vulnerable to a German attack southward from East Prussia , especially if this were matched by an Austrian advance northward from Galicia . |
| 9 | Such posts as this were intended for the sons of the well-heeled or at least the well-connected . |
| 10 | In the west , a woman could only have an abortion if this were approved by a doctor on medical , genetic or psychological grounds . |
| 11 | If this were paid for over 20 years at 10 per cent interest , the annual cost would be £1200 . |
| 12 | The keys for this were held by only three people — the works manager , the general manager , and the chief maintenance engineer . |
| 13 | The original enquiries about this were directed to the County Surveyor 's Department , but I now understand that the work on the boundary sign was done on behalf of the County Planning Department . |
| 14 | Shortly after ‘ Cader Idris ’ , Wilson painted the ‘ Great Bridge over the Taaffe ’ ; the etchings made from this were published in 1766 . |
| 15 | The roots for this were laid in colonial times and have become entrenched in the Apartheid SA where one 's race , class and place of residence are major determinants of the health care that one receives . |
| 16 | If this were allowed for in factor input analysis , the productivity of manufacturing would be shown as correspondingly lower . |
| 17 | The numbering limits on this were set at 32767 which might , at first glance seem an impressive number . |
| 18 | The reparations on this were going to be cosmic . |
| 19 | The decisions on this were taken in August 1981 before the formal emergence of the Labour Party split at a time when the old guard were in control of the Labour Group . |
| 20 | The reasons for this were linked to the financial relationship between central and local government . |
| 21 | The expenses of this were known as coat-and-conduct money , part of which was reimbursed by the Crown but most of which was borne by the counties . |
| 22 | In the mid-1940s , explanations for this were offered in the form of theories which presented anatomical features as the cause of the blacks ' advantages . |
| 23 | Exceptions to this were found in the older family where the wife had always been active and continued to work into her 70's , and where a specialised product like cheese was being produced for farm gate sales . |
| 24 | Some interesting reasons for this were suggested in The Observer in 1986 . |
| 25 | The conclusions we characteristically reach about this were learned in childhood when we needed to make sense of the many confusing and contradictory recordings in our three ego-states . |
| 26 | In fact few were conducted in strict accordance with the Act . |
| 27 | A few were connected with neighbouring towers by spidery bridges , 1,000 feet above ravines of deepest blue . |
| 28 | However a few were experimenting with this newest innovation and looking around the Orkney countryside today well there 's hardly a farm that does n't have a covered silage pit or a grain silo and today the fields are full of barley and oilseed rape and a field of turnips is something of a rare sight these days . |
| 29 | The majority of the bodies could not be identified from their remains ; a few were confirmed by dental records , or by jewellery and belongings that survived the blast intact . |
| 30 | It was students demonstrating , as a result of which a number of them were arrested and I later learnt that a few were sentenced to be flogged . |