Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith . |
| 2 | A few were in the hands of private companies , but the majority were owned either by the Federal or state governments . |
| 3 | ‘ This was at the police station , was it ? ’ |
| 4 | In half ( 11 cases ) this was at the patients ' request because of poor function . |
| 5 | Due to the high cost of operating a high powered aircraft like the Firefly ( this was during the mid-1960s , before ‘ warbirds ’ were commonplace ) , the aircraft was reluctantly grounded , but maintained in good order . |
| 6 | But this was outside the police remit , and meanwhile , they had to be careful not to jeopardise public tranquillity . |
| 7 | She notes : ‘ This was before the women 's liberation movement and was very scandalous ’ . |
| 8 | However , this was before the astronomers , notably Professor Alexander Thom , got in on the act . |
| 9 | This was before the days of the National Health Service . |
| 10 | This was before the days of two-channel stereo records , and the label simply meant to imply that there was spaciousness in the sound on the record . |
| 11 | This was before the days of relatively cheap air flights — in fact such things were n't even thought of by the bulk of the population . |
| 12 | As to what we were going to do in our school holidays , and if I do n't , let's see , the teacher was named , it 's be the fourth class , and er two of us decided we were going to , and this was before the days of hiking as such , we decided we were going to go hiking . |
| 13 | Towards the end of my Baghdad tour I had regular tussles with the group captain in friendly games of tennis , but I was never able to take a set off him , which never surprised me since he was more or less the permanent Inter-Services Tennis Champion in the UK , ( Oddly enough , Jackie Hunter was my station commander early in the war and saved me from the wrath of my Air Officer Commanding — " Maori " Coningham — when I brought my bombs back when everyone else had " found the target " , but this was before the days of the night camera . ) |
| 14 | If it turns out badly , he might argue ( contrary to the facts ) that this was against the odds . |
| 15 | This was among the failures , along with Renoir 's red-chalk studies , Jawlensky 's ‘ Variation ’ , and two dark Mueller lithographs . |
| 16 | This was in the interests of deniability . |
| 17 | The woman , who gave the name Bernadette , said from their home in Tulse Hill , south London : ‘ Before all this was in the papers John told me he had served Mr Lamont . |
| 18 | All of this was in the hours ahead , for I was now to live through one of the toughest three days and nights I ever experienced . |
| 19 | This was in the foothills of the Mournes , whence he had been sent to take a photograph of bees and beekeeping . |
| 20 | Yeah well er you see this was in the grounds at Dartington |
| 21 | Lifers were entitled after two years to apply for furlough to maintain contact with their families , but this was in the hands of the police department , not the prison authorities , and was rarely granted — a matter of some concern to the gaol Superintendent . |
| 22 | This was in the days when torpedoes were not missiles that moved underwater , hence the nowadays somewhat obscure meaning of Admiral Farragut 's remark , ‘ Damn the torpedoes , full speed ahead ! ’ |
| 23 | ( This was in the days when four pounds and ten shillings was worth sod all . ) |
| 24 | This was in the days when we were both planning to be great composers . |
| 25 | The following were among the findings reported at a conference in Anchorage , Alaska : — brain damage in seals similar to that found in people who die from solvent abuse ; this would have disoriented the animals and affected basic physiological functions like breathing ; it is suspected that many seals drowned , but because dead seals sink an accurate assessment of deaths has not been possible ; — the disappearance of a group of killer whales that had lived in the sound , possibly also due to the " solvent abuse effect " ; — deaths among sea otters not only from hypothermia ( because oil stuck to their fur destroyed its insulating properties ) but from emphysema caused by breathing in toxic fumes and from liver and kidney damage caused by ingesting oil ; — failure to breed among many species of birds since the accident , either because of the death rate within colonies at the time ( in the case of guillemots ) or because continued exposure to oil-polluted food sources is preventing reproduction ; — death tolls of up to 40 per cent for eggs laid by salmon , herring and other fish , and deformities and withered muscles among fish that did hatch . |
| 26 | The following were among the names in the new year honours list : |
| 27 | Gorbachev on Dec. 4 had announced to the USSR Supreme Soviet emergency plans to import basic foodstuffs to the value of 2,100 million roubles ( US$1,050 million at the new commercial exchange rate ) to ensure that supplies in the first quarter of 1991 were at the levels of the same period in 1990 . |
| 28 | The second general point is that the discussion on Greece and Rome shows that Engels thought that the general scheme of social causation developed by Marx for capitalism applied to pre-capitalist formations , so long as these were past the gens stages . |
| 29 | Although he extols the yellow of spring , the green of summer , and ‘ the changling dresses of autumnal tints ’ ; these were for the sightseers not the painter . |
| 30 | A quarter of these were on the streets the day they were delivered from the printers . |