Example sentences of "was [adj] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seminal work of such type was that carried out by the Italian psychiatrist , Lombroso , who set out to demonstrate the pathological nature of genius , quoting examples as varied as Julius Caesar , Mohammed , Newton , Rousseau , and Schopenhauer . |
| 2 | and it was all split up into the different seminar group , we we had to take one aspect . |
| 3 | It was all taken up by the top brass you know . |
| 4 | This house was first built back in the 1890s as a residence for the local missionary . |
| 5 | The Slav Muslims also had their oral traditions , the most celebrated of their ballads being the Hasanaginica , which was first written down in the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | The possibility of a bypass was first mooted back in the 1930s , but the notion was recently resurrected as a solution to the picturesque village 's traffic problems . |
| 7 | The fact was that she had lost the six square inches of canvas allocated for the kettleholder when it was first given out to the class . |
| 8 | When this was first pointed out to the ambassador , he said that he could not be sued for libel since he possessed diplomatic immunity . |
| 9 | It was first worked on at the turn of the century by the American psychologist , E. L. Thorndike , and more recently by another American psychologist , B. F. Skinner , and many others . |
| 10 | In the consultation document that was first put out to the public in nineteen ninety one , the public was only offered the yellow route . |
| 11 | It is a highly successful adaptation of an advertisement which was first shown back in the early 1980s in Britain . |
| 12 | The town centre , west of the Windrush river , was first laid out by the Bishop of Winchester in the early 13th. century , and is considered to be a fine example of medieval town planning . |
| 13 | Like the ‘ Samson ’ , it is an important rediscovery , once in the Demidoff Collection , that had been missing for decades and was last seen in at the C.L.Cardon sale in Brussels in 1921 . |