Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following the report of its working group , recommendations concerning this were passed on to the newly appointed UKCC on its inception in July 1983 . |
| 2 | The Mayor and Corporation flapped about like mud skippers and some were swirled round by the eddies and then flung on to sprawling tree roots where they hung about like wet washing . |
| 3 | Some were taken back to the dungeons of Black Crag where they remain to this day , to the anger of Kazador . |
| 4 | Although as the largest parliamentary party the CEDA might have expected to dominate government after the November 1933 election , this was ruled out by the President of the Republic , Alcalá Zamora , on grounds of the CEDA 's non-republicanism . |
| 5 | This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse . |
| 6 | This was made up by the Head Girl mixing together oxide of zinc , glycerine , rosewater , a touch of yellow ochre and methylated spirits , the latter helping to dry it on the legs . |
| 7 | This was not designer stubble , this was getting up in the morning and not being bothered . |
| 8 | Shortly afterwards came the Chronica Gentis Scottorum of John of Fordun , again stressing the achievements of the Scots , and the villainy of Edward I. This was followed up in the early fifteenth century by the verse chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun , prior of Lochleven . |
| 9 | ‘ This was propped up against the body , on the front doorstep . ’ |
| 10 | When this was pointed out to the organisers , they replied : ‘ It is an unimportant section , it does not matter ’ . |
| 11 | The basic philosophy is the same , however , in that both views illustrate the fact that there is in intonation some organisation at a level higher than the isolated tone-unit ; this was pointed out in the discussion of Trim ( 1959 ) ( notes on Chapter 16 above ) ; see also Fox ( 1973 ) . |
| 12 | When this was fed back to the operators , they were quickly able to see how their actions were contributing to the effluent and to make substantial reductions in the amount of ammonia leaving the plant . |
| 13 | ‘ This was blown out of the water by the Supreme Court in 1990 , when it said Irish unity is a constitutional imperative . |
| 14 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |
| 15 | This was borne out on the Wednesday when insurgent soldiers pressed the Soviet to issue an order — Order No. 1 — which severely circumscribed the authority of officers both by sanctioning the election of soldiers ' committees with control over weapons and by laying down that officers ' orders were to be subject to the Soviet 's approval . |
| 16 | This was borne out by the very subjective observation that no used fertiliser bags were noted anywhere in the Auvergne uplands whereas such discarded litter is commonplace in the Welsh uplands ( unless French farmers are innately tidier ! ) . |
| 17 | This was borne out by the tests on ‘ bootiful ’ Norfolk turkeys which needed an hour at half microwave power to cook right through without drying the breast meat . |
| 18 | This was bought out by the private cleaning firm BET , which then had to compete with other firms for the contracts to clean schools . |
| 19 | All this was mixed up with the newspapers and the money . |
| 20 | This was brought about by the award of a number of complimentary contracts in the UK and overseas . |
| 21 | Although this was brought about by the Gulf War and the subsequent world recession , it is certainly now exacerbated by an unrestrained and reckless war of attrition in which dollars are hauled over the top of the grain of a few inches of market share . |
| 22 | Its supporting declaration called for the creation of " independent organs of struggle based on the factories " , and this was taken up at the Workers Charter Convention held in Bermondsey on 12 April 1931 . |
| 23 | This was taken up by the Economic Section of the Cabinet ( under Meade ) which devised the Economic Survey : the expected level of output for the following year was predicted on the basis of the estimated changes over the present year in individual sectors of the economy . |
| 24 | Soon another change came as wrights and blacksmiths began to work locally and this was speeded up by the coming of industry attracted by the water power of the Water of Leith . |
| 25 | This was backed up by the famous John Peel Festive Fifty which was embarrassingly dominated by the band . |
| 26 | This was carried out to the design of William Butterfield and completed in 1848 . |
| 27 | For years this was carried out by the " vanners " ; men effecting a separation on special vanning shovels using a method perhaps best described as somewhat akin to panning for gold . |
| 28 | This was carried out in the form of a maze of plants surrounding Her Majesty 's Coat of Arms . |
| 29 | This was set up by the Fair Trade Foundation which you were asking about , . |
| 30 | The common law rule on this was laid down by the Court of Appeal in Cresswell v. Sirl but this rule has been replaced , so far as the protection of livestock against dogs is concerned , by section 9 of the Animals Act . |