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 ) . |