Example sentences of "[verb] was [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The tunnelling that the Frenchman was paid — and handsomely — to supervise was off the road to Arbil , close to the village of Salahuddin , due north of Baghdad .
2 Preliminary observational studies of the self-instructional material provided for library orientation showed that the material provided was of help to new users , but that it did not , alone , supply adequate orientation information .
3 The price proposed was on the open market and Stuttgart was happy to offer it .
4 This seems a particularly harsh result where the person assaulted was in plain clothes , and it may be doubted whether it can be justified in principle .
5 The equipment listed was in use in 1989 for a maximum of 30 windsurf guests .
6 He desperately needed to talk to me , to have me as a confessor if not to obtain my active help , but could not see the way to come to terms with me ; his need to accept was in conflict with his wish to reject .
7 The one bed that was occupied was at the far end of the ward .
8 It is nowhere stated that the ground which had been occupied was to be abandoned , but that was the result .
9 Many users modify existing style sheets but this can bring along huge amounts of excess styling information that you either do n't want or had forgotten was in there .
10 The classical piece Cale always claimed was in him never emerged , mainly because the showman in him would n't let it go : ‘ there was just so much chaos going on , in my personal and creative life , that I could n't finish …
11 Such French capital as Poland managed to secure was for specific projects like the new port at Gdynia — which was encouraged by the French to discomfort the Germans as much as to aid the Poles .
12 What I did n't know was of the ninety-plus pieces of work , both large and small , which Save The Children undertook in the United Kingdom .
13 The accepted rate at which New York life moved was at least three factors faster than in London .
14 She held firm because she knew that the road to compromise was without signposts , that the possibilities for getting lost were manifold and that it was paved with flawed imitations of the truth .
15 He could accept rejection , but to be actively disliked was to him a kind of living death .
16 The first case we reported was from West Germany , and the next two from the UK .
17 Clearly Fjortoft ( who has sucked at Swindon , not a single goal yet ! ) and maybe also Sorloth ( who as before mentioned was at a 14-day trial at Leeds and scored in all his test matches ) will be picked .
18 The only romance the Timelord ever enjoyed was in the 1964 William Hartnell four-parter , The Aztecs .
19 the reasons why the item involved was at the location ;
20 One way in which attitudes towards and categorization of black pupils was fostered was through gossip among staff .
21 The salesman I approached was in his early forties and begrudgingly admitted that he had a fair knowledge of the wordprocessor we use .
22 Note that the word used was to ‘ assist ’ in controlling the tail .
23 The sample used was of large companies that were known to be at the leading edge in terms of corporate planning practices .
24 Huge cresset torches were placed high on the walls , the tables had been covered with white linen and the only plate used was of the best thick silver .
25 I like to think I am broad-minded , but the language my father used was beyond the pale , and all because he could n't have a shave !
26 The only other official site I used was in Isafjördur but in the first week of June , at minus five degrees , I had been alone .
27 One of the places we used was in such a state of unrepair that every time it rained we had to put out buckets everywhere just to keep our feet dry . ’
28 The specification used was in error correction format ( Hendry et al , 1983 ) which by specifying variables in both differences and lagged levels enables one to separate out long and short run influences on the dependent variable .
29 ‘ The impression they created was of two young men , very smart , well-spoken , trading high-value stones for far too much money , ’ Mr Curtis told the jury .
30 Held , allowing the appeal , that it was a requirement of all leases and tenancy agreements that the term created was of certain duration ; that the lease purportedly created under the memorandum of agreement , being for an uncertain period , was void and the land was held on a yearly tenancy created by virtue of the tenant 's possession and payment of yearly rent , on such terms of the memorandum of agreement as were consistent with a yearly tenancy ; and that , accordingly , since the term preventing the landlord from determining the tenancy until the land was required for road widening purposes was inconsistent with the right of either party under a yearly tenancy to determine it on six months ' notice , the plaintiffs ' tenancy had been lawfully determined ( post , pp. 283B–C , F–G , 284G–H , 285E–F , 286E–F , H — 287B , G–H ) .
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