Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time the tax that banks deducted from interest payments to depositors was passed on to the taxmen each quarter . |
| 2 | It should have been a warning to me when I noticed that none of the other foreigners was going anywhere near the wicker-basket toboggans , each with two dapper attendants . |
| 3 | His view was that the breaking down of large organizations was delayed only by the political power of European governments and workers ' movements . |
| 4 | The emotional trauma suffered by Joe and his brothers was outweighed only by the physical pain Joe claimed his father inflicted upon them , whipping and even punching them . |
| 5 | In 1749 for the first time a single system of tactics was laid down for the entire army , while in 1765 the Hofkriegsrath assumed the power to appoint to all ranks above that of captain and from 1776 an organized State military transport corps began to be built up . |
| 6 | The Provos , he claimed , had reserves of munitions and were determined to keep going , even though a debate of sorts was going on within the Republican movement . |
| 7 | His book on these subjects was published posthumously as The Construction and Use of a Thermometer ( 1794 ) . |
| 8 | An episode of the highly successful TV comedy The Likely Lads was based entirely on the two working-class Geordie protagonists not being told the result of a recorded game . |
| 9 | Which is where everything starts to fuck up , because the moment we turn our attention to Herr Mayer he tells us that the money he used to pay the Iranians was put up by the son of a well-known local citizen . ’ |
| 10 | In form alone there are similarities between certain glass bowls and plain ceramic bowls , but it is difficult to find ceramic equivalents of distinctive glass forms , suggesting that any social and economic symbolism conveyed by the shape and function of such vessels was conveyed equally by the material used , and that there were rigid boundaries between them ; there was not , for instance , a poor man 's version of the glass cone beaker . |
| 11 | The sound of his footsteps was absorbed efficiently by the etched walls and curved pathway . |
| 12 | As with most of the Doctor Who stories of this period , the job of building all the special hardware and models was farmed out to the Shawcraft firm of prop-builders . |
| 13 | Nails was looking out of the window as if he had nothing to do with any of them . |
| 14 | Other bits stayed where they were , making her look like something Special Effects was trying out for the next Dr Who series . |
| 15 | An action begun in Glasgow for possession of the books , papers and effects was turned down on the grounds that the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union was not registered in Scotland and that the complaint had therefore been raised " without title or authority " , though these effects were , claimed Shinwell , later handed over " for the sake of peace and quiet " . |
| 16 | The form of those prayers was laid down in the teaching of the rabbis , and we can glimpse it in the story of the Pharisee and the Publican . |
| 17 | In 1988 a Franco-German research programme for the preservation of historic monuments was set up at the fifty-second summit meeting between the two countries . |
| 18 | Mr Deputy Speaker that strong sympathy expressed at the time of the last debate on these matters was approved overwhelmingly by the Labour party conference last October and I state that for the record less there be any misunderstanding about our position on the issue of voting systems . |
| 19 | A kindergarten housing asylum-seeking refugees was burned down in the northern city of Greifswald . |
| 20 | A MINER killed when he was crushed between two coal wagons was forced back down the pits to save his pension . |
| 21 | The relationship between body posture and suppressed past trauma or emotions was touched on in the section dealing with cervical reintegration . |
| 22 | In the thirteenth century the decoration of manuscripts was passing out of the hands of the religious houses to artists grouped together within the towns and working for patrons both lay and ecclesiastical . |
| 23 | The separate identity of such organisations was accepted both on the purely factual level ( a non-member can not deny the factual existence of the United Nations ) and on the legal level ( a non-member may owe duties to an organisation and be able to make claims against it ) . |
| 24 | A NEW laser treatment which could help hundreds of Ulster people suffering from disfiguring birthmarks was unveiled today at the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald . |
| 25 | Ultramontanism was becoming more vigorous and initiative among the English Catholics was moving away from the old Catholic families to the increasing Catholic population of towns . |
| 26 | Sequencing of DNA fragments subcloned into M13 vectors was carried out by the method of Sanger et al ( 25 ) , using a modified T7 DNA polymerase ( Sequenase , United States Biochemical Corporation ) . |
| 27 | Opening this month 's Guitarist , any pleasure I was enjoying to find that my name still ranked highly in the opinion of guitar players and music dealers was destroyed totally by the allegation that — to quote from Tony Iommi 's feature — ‘ unfortunately John ended up in jail and that was the end of that . ’ |
| 28 | The existence of both acute and chronic illnesses was ruled out on the basis of a complete anamnesis and full clinical and biological examination including routine haematological counts , serum glycaemia , total cholesterol , triglycerides , and renal and liver functions tests ( Technicon SMA-20 Autoanalyzer ) . |
| 29 | PLEASE CONTINUE , those of you who have difficulty are reminded that a list of fundraising ideas was sent out with the last notes and we would hope that the areas would get together and hold rallies and/or cheese and wine evenings/coffee mornings etc . |
| 30 | Yet , not all this increase in bulk costs was passed on to the consumers in retail tariffs . |