Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the effect of experience on temperament is still limited by the horse 's genetic traits — for example , if both the naturally placid horse and the naturally nervous horse were brought up in the same rough environment , then the placid horse would still be less timid than the nervous one . |
| 2 | In Argentina , serious negotiations with the state oil firm YPF were broken off after the 1930 coup . |
| 3 | Most of the forms of publicity through print discussed in the first section of this chapter were taken up by the West Indians . |
| 4 | Small flakes of rock were dropping out of the roof around the ring pitons . |
| 5 | The strike call was endorsed and Local Councils of Action were set up throughout the country , to await events . |
| 6 | Although there is no written evidence to substantiate this , no major repairs or maintenance were carried out on the machinery , and it is evident that it performed well from the start . |
| 7 | Relegation followed , and the hopelessly over-stretched club were sliding back towards the Fourth Division when Toshack resigned in 1984 . |
| 8 | After Zarathustra 's death his religion was taken up by the old priestly class known as the Magi and eventually became the faith of the Achaemenid dynasty . |
| 9 | Her glance was drawn back to the bed again when , clearly befuddled , and with no idea how he came to be where he was , he slurred , ‘ How did I get here ? ’ |
| 10 | A family planning association was set up by the Government in 1972 , and the Government 's First Five Year Plan proposed the promotion of several different types of birth control . |
| 11 | The stranger was led back through the empty trains to the car shed pits where he could gain access to the street . |
| 12 | Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute . |
| 13 | If a deal was hammered out with the banks , an accompanying rights issue to raise up to £400m from existing private shareholders was likely next spring . |
| 14 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 15 | They remained in occupation until 16 October 1979 , immediately after the coup against Romero , when the factory warehouse was burnt down by the company and the women dislodged by armed members of the Treasury Police . |
| 16 | Mary of Guise was brought up in the charmed circles of the greatest French aristocracy . |
| 17 | A former 3rd Farnham scout was heading off with the Falklands-bound Navy task force as one of the mechanics servicing the Harrier jump-jets aboard HMS Hermes . |
| 18 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , Nuclear Electric was formed out of the old Central Electricity Generating Board and has remained a Government-owned project throughout . |
| 19 | Posi then told me that a comm-call was coming in from the Famlio ship , but I told her to ignore it . |
| 20 | Philip Miller 's appreciation was summed up in the Abridgement of 1754 , where he considered roses to have |
| 21 | The Mujaheddin claimed that the murder was carried out by the Iranian embassy in Switzerland on the orders of the then Iranian President Khamenei . |
| 22 | Although the family seat was sold off in the fifties , the thirteenth Earl finds himself in a very similar sort of house , and the comparison is instructive . |
| 23 | ( At their first overhaul , this batch were given full internal bulkheads and an extra seat was squeezed in on the top deck . ) |
| 24 | This precise and disheartening indictment was drawn up by the late Dr Enid Starkie , Reader Emeritus in French Literature at the University of Oxford , and Flaubert 's most exhaustive British biographer . |
| 25 | It was as if his mind was digging down through the years and bringing up pictures of past events … |
| 26 | In June the facade was blown out of the Iraqi Planning Ministry building by what seems to have been a car bomb , although it is not clear whether this was the result of direct Iranian action or that of some domestic opposition group . |
| 27 | The RAF 's Vulcan XH558 bomber was handed over to the Walton family by the station commander at RAF Waddington , Lincolnshire . |
| 28 | Miroslav Stepan , former Communist Party secretary in Prague , was sentenced on Oct. 22 to 30 months ' imprisonment following confirmation by an appeal court of his July conviction on charges of abuse of power connected with the suppression of a Prague demonstration on Oct. 28 , 1988 ; a second charge relating to a January 1989 demonstration was referred back to the Prosecutor 's Office [ for his conviction and initial sentence of four years ' imprisonment see p. 37737 ] . |
| 29 | Morrison , whose girlfriend was travelling out for the Hong Kong tournament , reckoned that he sustained the injury when he turned quickly during Scotland 's opening tie against Australian Capital Territory in Canberra last week . |
| 30 | The Group 's responsibility for site-specific geophysical surveys brings with it the parallel responsibility for databasing the considerable archive of material from surveys of this kind made over the 40 years since the Geophysics Department was set up in the former Geological Survey of Great Britain . |