Example sentences of "[vb pp] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two items in the struggle for the liberty of the Church to which Anselm was committed were for him not negotiable either by himself or the successor of the pope who had declared lay investiture and clerical homage to be irreconcilable with the law of the Church . |
| 2 | To a certain extent this bias is rectified in the snowball samples as those interviewed were in various stages of involvement in heroin use and thus show a greater degree of variation in terms of both their social and heroin career profiles . |
| 3 | approximately twenty-five per cent of the children evacuated were in such a filthy condition that they had to be specially treated . |
| 4 | What the advancing Germans occupied were for the most part clusters of shell-holes , where isolated groups of men lived and slept and died defending their ‘ position ’ with grenade and pick-helve . |
| 5 | Those included were in Dakar , Niamey , Yaoundé , Bamako , Fort-Lamy , Conakry , Abidjan , Lomé , Cotonou , Douala , St. Louis and Brazzaville . |
| 6 | The one bed that was occupied was at the far end of the ward . |
| 7 | It is nowhere stated that the ground which had been occupied was to be abandoned , but that was the result . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | He could accept rejection , but to be actively disliked was to him a kind of living death . |
| 11 | The only romance the Timelord ever enjoyed was in the 1964 William Hartnell four-parter , The Aztecs . |
| 12 | One way in which attitudes towards and categorization of black pupils was fostered was through gossip among staff . |
| 13 | You 've got okay you 've got something like a six I do n't even know what time the train comes they change at different times , the one I 've caught was at five past nine train . |
| 14 | Half of the farms visited were in the Peak District and were predominantly livestock-with-grass holdings . |
| 15 | The buildings which these adorned were in large part of timber and terracotta , but they were true Doric temples like those in stone . |
| 16 | The worst times I 've ever endured were with a tax-dodger in Castletown . |
| 17 | ‘ But if all the Rime Giants ever spawned were after me I would still sit here , for I need some hot food in me to fight the ice in my bones . ’ |
| 18 | The men he had suspected were in prison serving life sentences . |
| 19 | The recommendations finally made were of a highly practical nature , but they established a tradition of careful selection which was easily glamorized in both the public and the official mind . |
| 20 | While everyone agreed the changes in living standards since the film was made were for the better , there was some nostalgia for farming as it was when they were young . |
| 21 | As might be expected from the above , the most extensive changes to be made were in procedures for recording audit work . |
| 22 | The other way in which the economic aspects of military expenditure were presented was in the form of the public expenditure costs . |
| 23 | The last time that I heard that argument so brazenly presented was by Mr. Neville Chamberlain 's spokesman before the war . |
| 24 | She had no doubt her entry had been heard , that the soft sound she had only just noticed was of someone ducking out of sight . |
| 25 | In the past 100 years , the only time it was defeated was in Mussolini 's reign , which accounts for the popularity among older Neapolitans , sick of living with Mafioso , for his granddaughter . |
| 26 | The sentences were enlarged as much as possible , but sizeable gaps were left between each sentence so that the temptation to interpret contiguous sentences as meaningfully related was to some extent avoided . |
| 27 | So on 13 and 14 March the best that could be done was for him to give Harwell full details and let them get on with it themselves ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 28 | Everything he had done was for this final purpose , " that I might dwell among them " ( Exodus 29:43–46 ) . |
| 29 | Everything he had ever done was for the woman he could not forget . |
| 30 | ‘ The first day 's threshing I done was for a man by the name of Rogers , Harry Rogers . |