Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ standing army ’ of over a million unemployed was mopped up during the first year of hostilities , and between 1939 and 1943 almost 3 million jobs were added to the labour market , including many jobs for women . |
| 2 | Does it mean that something mysterious , even mystical was going on inside the computer ? |
| 3 | In the next room half of Beverly Hills High was freaking out to The Doors . |
| 4 | In this year the Japanese were driven on to the defensive , with the increasing damage to their shipping creating shortages in essential foodstuffs and vital petrol supplies . |
| 5 | The six trains for which the LMS were responsible were handed over to the Military authorities in less than three weeks . |
| 6 | Tartan carpet using the Cumbernauld Tartan was laid out in the Country Club and its connecting passages . |
| 7 | Across the bridge in Aberfeldy more people than usual were standing about on the dried mud of the half-built streets . |
| 8 | Fearful anticipation had proved somewhat worse than the event , and most Viennese were coming round to the opinion that , whatever the failings of Napoleon 's men , they were at least an improvement upon the Hapsburgs ' Russian allies , whom everyone loathed . |
| 9 | On the other side of the yard , the first of the City 's homeless were coming out of the union . |
| 10 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 11 | As the police privately noted at the time , most of them showed substantial expertise and one in particular was carried out with the skill to be found only among persons such as highly trained army saboteurs . |
| 12 | French superstar Zafonic was pulled out of the St James 's Palace Stakes when owner Prince Khalid Abdulla decided not to risk him on the rain-softened surface . |
| 13 | I observed him warily , waiting for the outburst I felt certain was infusing along with the coffee , but he remained impassive and finished the meal by stoically downing a litre or so of the espresso blend , a large tin box of Amaretti di Saronno and eight grappa . |
| 14 | Many ofthe 2.5 million rivets have been renewed , and parts of the ironwork have been replaced in recent years-authenticated chunks of the original were sold off to the public as highly-priced souvenirs . |
| 15 | The Romanesque was taken over in the last two decades of the nineteenth century , when American railway-station building reached its apogee in masterpieces of creative eclecticism . |
| 16 | Lady Brabourne senior was pulled out of the water alive , but died in hospital the next day . |