Example sentences of "[det] [prep] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position would , of course , have been plainer if Parliament had provided an expanded express definition of ‘ company ’ for the purposes of the group of sections which relate to administrative receivers , such as was done in the case of section 388(4) of the Act of 1986 , and was also done , for example , in section 22(2) ( b ) of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 , where company is defined as including ‘ any company which may be wound up under Part V of the Insolvency Act . ’ |
| 2 | As well as listing the statutory bodies and their responsibilities in the coastal zone , the relevant national voluntary bodies could be included , such as was done in the PPG Note on Nature Conservation . |
| 3 | But that was not a pleasant thought and Erika firmly pushed it away , thinking of movement from a lower to a higher stage of development , as Marx taught , and such as was taking place now , she and her mother sitting together , no longer like mother and daughter , teacher and child , but more like sisters . |
| 4 | You are wearing a cloak such as was worn every day by the likes of your mama , your grandmama and yourself . |
| 5 | Few people were about , owing to the lateness of the hour , and the guards around the entrance of each tower she passed , glanced briefly at her and turned away , seeing only a woman of indeterminate age , muffled in a hooded cloak such as was worn by serving-women everywhere . |
| 6 | They currently co-operate well on an informal basis but there could be a case for a more formal liaison such as was seen in Germany . |
| 7 | It is inappropriate to propose any deal or settlement , such as was suggested in the present case , that the representative might forgo fees . |
| 8 | We need a kind of Marshall plan which will bring to those poor suffering countries aid such as was brought to continental Europe when it lay prostrate at the end of the second world war . |
| 9 | In short , even a genuinely mulitilateral world system effectively dominated by an oligarchy of the important states , such as was envisaged in the Security Council as originally set up , would not be an international system in which most nations and nation-states played a significant role . |
| 10 | The variation between English-language speakers about what syllables , in effect what vowels , they treat as long or short , is so great that there can be no question of imposing on English verse a quantitative metre such as was used for ancient Latin ( doubtless with some strain for those who spoke classical Latin with dialectal variations as to quantity ) . |
| 11 | They proved almost useless , for the ebb and flow of the fighting hindered the collection of accurate information , and such as was gleaned was usually out of date by the time of its transmission . |
| 12 | What it was all about was to do with politics . |