Example sentences of "was [verb] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A 54 hour working week was to remain until after the 1914–18 war , when , on l January l919 , a 47 hour week was introduced . |
| 32 | The latter practice was discouraged because of the damage it could cause to the roof of the tunnel . |
| 33 | The team was chosen so far ahead that the monumental Rangers defender George Young was omitted because of an injury that cleared up weeks before the team left Scotland . |
| 34 | In his autobiography A Little Learning ( 1964 ) Waugh was to observe that at the age of sixteen he noticed that his publisher father , ‘ whom I had grown up to accept with complete simplicity ’ , was in fact a highly gifted actor in everything he did . |
| 35 | The scenes-of-crime van was parked as near the site as it could get , planks had been laid on the ground approaching and under the scaffolding to preserve whatever evidence there might be , and the area where the body was had been screened off . |
| 36 | It was claimed that in the Krajna ( Serb populated areas ) over 90 per cent had voted to remain in Yugoslavia . |
| 37 | Joseph II in the 1780s attached great importance to its work ( not surprisingly for a ruler of his suspicious and autocratic temperament ) and it was claimed that in the single year 1780 – 81 alone no fewer than fifteen foreign diplomatic cyphers were broken in Vienna . |
| 38 | Smith was writing as the era of good harvests and cheap food was ending and before the onset of demographic acceleration . |
| 39 | In yesterday 's edition of The Northern Echo it was reported that at a meeting of Derwentside Council 's development control sub-committee Labour councillor Eric Turner criticised a fellow councillor , Derek McVickers . |
| 40 | On Sept. 18 it was reported that in the previous week five truck drivers had been killed by armed groups , probably of the Afar clan , on the road from the port of Assab to Addis Ababa . |
| 41 | At Hampton Ferry the Saturday match was cancelled but with a milder day the Sunday event was still going ahead Saturday night . |
| 42 | Speculation on whether the historic meeting would actually go ahead , however , was intensified when , on the same day , a planned visit to the South by a North Korean delegation — the first since 1985 — was cancelled because of a failure to agree upon minor procedural details . |
| 43 | The Broadway opening was cancelled because of a blizzard . |
| 44 | The operation was cancelled because of a shortage of beds in intensive care where he will recover from his surgery . |
| 45 | ‘ Our original tour , in 1987 , was cancelled because of the World Cup and we were not due to visit New Zealand again until 1996 , ’ he said . |
| 46 | That was cancelled because of the holidays . |
| 47 | ( The queen had been due to visit Iran in the royal yacht Britannia in January 1979 ; at the last minute the trip was cancelled because of the turmoil in Iran and the queen sent the Shah a gracious and sympathetic handwritten note of regret ) . |
| 48 | I know it was cancelled because of the weather . |
| 49 | The owners of a department store which was evacuated because of a bomb scare have criticised the police operation . |
| 50 | This was included because of the different sensitivity of the top and bottom of the optical RAM . |
| 51 | His head was shaven but for a topknot . |
| 52 | The problem of the prophecies was solved albeit in a way he had scarce expected . |
| 53 | Trade with the Soviet Union reached US$2,000 million , but was shrinking because of the withdrawal of Soviet aid and the transfer of trade to a hard-currency basis . |
| 54 | But a proposed clause in the new act to disallow for quota any film of low standard of production and entertainment value was dropped because of the difficulties involved in determining which films should be excluded . |
| 55 | I remember the time when you and I , Mr. Speaker , had a few words because of what was happening because of the Secretary of State for Health |
| 56 | The power of traditional chiefs was curbed and for the first time women and young people were drawn into the political process . |
| 57 | The endoscopical differential diagnosis comprised lymphoreticular malignancy , such as α chain disease or a non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma , while clinically sarcoidosis was considered because of the previous medical history . |
| 58 | It was forecast that with no domestic savings to draw on , the government would be forced to abandon a plan to maintain the new " gold cordoba " currency at a fixed parity to the US dollar during 1991 . |
| 59 | It was forecast that by the close of 1991 the revenue from sales worldwide of CD-ROM hardware and software would have amounted to some $3.2 billion of which the title component would be $2.3 billion , a proportion which would steadily increase . |
| 60 | Here they gave poetry readings in the 800-seat auditorium ; a measure of the man he was becoming and of the distinguished company he kept . |