Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [conj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the manors themselves new barns , halls , and chapels were erected and in the house at Canterbury , Eastry renovated the choir and chapter house . |
| 2 | As an observer of that scene , I think that , when history is accurately written , there will be great tribute to the manner in which help , encouragement and advice of considerable quality were given and to the mobilising of the western world to accept that change was taking place . |
| 3 | Moreover , the damages were given as at the date of the judgment , not the contract , so that a successful plaintiff would have the benefit of any inflation in values between the two dates . |
| 4 | Guidelines were given as to the type of person suitable for interview and the names provided were a representative sample . |
| 5 | No reasons were given as to the lack of information the social workers had gathered about the children ; why they did n't know about one child 's asthma , another 's forthcoming dental treatment , or that Jewish children might have special dietary requirements . |
| 6 | At the 1985 Special Commission , various estimates were given as to the length of time taken to comply with a Letter of Request . |
| 7 | Divorce , prostitution and women 's emancipation were designated as outside the parameters of political discourse , and MPs customarily prefaced speeches on these topics by apologizing to the house for intruding on parliamentary time . |
| 8 | said that that there was no generally accepted international meaning of the phrase ; he recognised that in some jurisdictions , public law matters were regarded as outside the categories of civil and commercial , but that this was not universally the case ; he , but not the other members of the court , felt that there was insufficient evidence as to the approach of Norwegian law , but was prepared to give the request the benefit of the doubt . |
| 9 | The tunnels , track arrangements , and loop lines were regarded as among the greatest engineering marvels of the age , and more engineers flocked to see them than any other contemporary achievement , even including the Panama Canal . |
| 10 | As princes saw it , it was a just war in the fullest sense of the term ; those who were slaughtered in its battles were regarded as among the martyrs of the church . |
| 11 | Will my hon. Friend suggest that hospitals in the Sheffield health authority area considering trust status should visit the Walsall trust hospital in the west midlands , where they will discover that in the first three months of this year 1,100 more patients were treated than in the year before — a 13 per cent . |
| 12 | Yet by the middle of the sixteenth century , if not earlier , the geographical distinction had become blurred in fact , since a number of medreses in the were treated as of the grade while certain medreses in the kenar were treated as of the grade . |
| 13 | Yet by the middle of the sixteenth century , if not earlier , the geographical distinction had become blurred in fact , since a number of medreses in the were treated as of the grade while certain medreses in the kenar were treated as of the grade . |
| 14 | we were singing that in the bathroom the other day |
| 15 | In Llandudno Junction , the water was up to 15ft deep and trains were stopped because of the flooded line . |
| 16 | Officials denied that the 249 students were dismissed because of the demonstrations , but the two events seemed inextricably linked . |
| 17 | Neither of us were attacked because of the Durances but because the local drug dealers knew I was making enquiries about trafficking and they thought you were working with me . |
| 18 | The officers were reminded that during the party split over common market membership in 1971 an executive member who opposed the Government line took the ‘ honourable course ’ and resigned . |
| 19 | Children with non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma were included because of the current understanding , based on immunological studies , that acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma represent opposite ends of the same spectrum of disease . |
| 20 | All sounds from outside were muffled because of the dock being partly below ground level , set into the slope of the bank , but in a short while I heard the sound of a car door slamming and after that the noise of an engine starting up and being driven away . |
| 21 | But Wilkins , at 36 playing better than ever , was instrumental in the club 's 2-0 win at Wimbledon and said : ’ We were committed and in the end we came through . ’ |
| 22 | Two shows were cancelled because of the ban . |
| 23 | All of the first-round heats of the 100 metres were cancelled because of the boycott . |
| 24 | TWO members of a Granada TV news team were robbed while in the US to film Laura before she and her parents left for home . |
| 25 | Improvements could be made , however , in the way inductions were presented and in the facilities at John Wood House for carrying them out . |
| 26 | " It being desirable and natural that the Association should be governed solely by bona fide deaf members , it was felt that it would be an act of selfishness to ignore those " hearing friends " who took real interest in the cause and welfare of the deaf ; yet apprehensions were felt as to the wisdom of adopting such a course . |
| 27 | The doctor sounded her chest , asking questions about the pain , and all the time trying to keep a sober , professional look though his hands were trembling and in the end he had to sit down to conceal his excitement . |
| 28 | However , no figures were revealed as to the size of the RIS , and the key question of whether it would employ former Securitate officers was declared " confidential " . |
| 29 | The villages were moved because of the depletion of firewood stocks ( the Indians believed the English had arrived because they had run out of firewood at home ) . |
| 30 | A thorough understanding of the way official statistics were collected and of the workings of the administration is shown to be essential for the proper interpretation of these data . |