Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this were added the effects of the transformation of the social structure by industrialization and urbanization in the more advanced areas ( Austria , the Czech lands , etc . ) . |
| 2 | If to this were added the effects of a special pension at 60 for those who were unemployed , a new invalidity pension , the raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen and a uniform forty-hour week , a total of 2,000,000 jobs would be redistributed to the unemployed . |
| 3 | When this was discovered the respondent was arrested on 19 October 1990 . |
| 4 | This was made the payoff in the Sunday Correspondent 's interview with the PM , though it has since emerged that the sequence of the conversation was altered . |
| 5 | The chip Shop is going to extend into the vacant shop next door and this was given the go ahead for a trial period of one year . |
| 6 | The Chip Shop is going to extend into the vacant shop next door and this was given the go ahead for a trial period of one year . |
| 7 | The second session began in March and finished at the end of July , and this was called the Summer Term , though in fact it was still extremely cold and wintry when term began . |
| 8 | On the other was the abbey of St Martial and the castle of the Viscount ; this was called the citadel , the castrum . |
| 9 | On the Von Neumann computer this was called the arithmetic register ( AR ) ; but it is more commonly referred to as the multiplier-quotient ( MQ ) or quotient ( Q ) register . |
| 10 | This was called the ‘ Cuban Crisis ’ and could have meant the start of World War Three . |
| 11 | This was confirmed the following morning , and that evening , not devoid of relief , we went back to our own beds . |
| 12 | On top of this was scrawled the man 's name ‘ John Irvine ’ and a list of victuals and wine bought from his own pocket at a tavern called the Sea Barque near the Town Wall in Leicester . |
| 13 | It may have been an attempt to clear the wood of all the trees , but before this was achieved the attempt was abandoned . |
| 14 | In Prince Charles 's circle this was considered the norm . |
| 15 | To this was added the promise to privatise British Coal if the Conservatives were re-elected for a fourth term . |
| 16 | The traditional requirement that there be reasonable grounds for taking the proceedings was accepted , and to this was added the subsidiary test that it must be reasonable to employ a legal representative . |
| 17 | To this was added the proviso that the GLC had not acted arbitrarily and had considered both its duties to the ratepayers and the statutory duties imposed by the 1969 Act on it and on the LTE . |
| 18 | The UN called for a ceasefire but before this was agreed the Dutch secured all major ports and the authority of the republic was confined to a mere one-third of Java , centred on Jogjakarta . |
| 19 | Chapman favoured a red and white sock to match the club colours , but when this was tried the red dye ran when the socks were washed . |
| 20 | When all this was accomplished the Community would , in the language of economic integration theory , constitute a Common Market . |
| 21 | The results were overwhelming : ‘ So much was sold the first night it was almost scary ’ , recalls Gerald Stiebel of Rosenberg and Stiebel , Inc . |
| 22 | In 1946 these were renamed the MVD and MGB and later changed yet again to their present titles of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopastnosti ( KGB ) , and the Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye ( GRU ) . |
| 23 | Most of these were accorded the right to establish elected " national local administrations " for self-government , or to join with neighbouring nationalities to do this . |
| 24 | During his rapid exit from the balloon carriage Sadler had lost both his signal flags , but these were found the next day in a field near Burton Pedwardine by Mr Edward Robinson , together with Sadler 's hat , cushion and , understandably , his broken thermometer ! |
| 25 | Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry . |
| 26 | There were the usual arguments about freedom of choice and to these were added the less usual one about equity , allowing local authority tenants to share in the economic benefits of owner-occupation . |
| 27 | During that time the pleasures of furtiveness were open to all concerned , and to these was added the satisfaction of hard physical work and the stimulus of a mild sense of danger while actually working under the earth . |
| 28 | One has transferred to the communications department and all were offered the opportunity to work for the new contract firm . |
| 29 | Apart from any need to counter persistent infringement of the rules of dress and display , the number of enactments is indicative of considerable uncertainty , for not only did the legislature feel impelled to extend the terminology of rank with monetary equivalents , these latter were made the subject of continual amendment within the broad permanent framework . |
| 30 | 21–7 Between 200 and 300 Glasgow Fair visitors were brought by the steamer " Islay " and more were expected the next two days . |