Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was referred again to the same cardiologist the next year and the exercise test was again negative and she was reassured . |
| 2 | There was this same probing again at her hardened tone , this summing up , and Jenna kept her face perfectly still , as icily cold as she could manage , although inside she was filled again with the same old grief , the same feeling of being worthless . |
| 3 | The reason for the rule was explained further in the same year in Rex v. St. John 's College , Cambridge ( 1694 ) 4 Mod.Rep. 233 , 241 : |
| 4 | Further expansion was carried out on the same basis , progressively moving through the model until more specific activities started to emerge , such as those that could be associated with component 8.7 , ie reduce costs : |
| 5 | Detectives believe this attack was carried out by the same man who raped a student from Somerville college two months ago in public toilets in the city centre . |
| 6 | The drive against corporations was carried out in the same spirit ; the only reason why the Whigs and Nonconformists had grown so influential in corporation politics was because the Corporation Act of 1661 had not been properly enforced . |
| 7 | ‘ It was an obvious choice , partly because of all the business they were doing in Europe and also because the public was fed up with the same old faces ; here was someone fresh at last , ’ recalls Peter Batty , director of the him . |
| 8 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |
| 9 | Baroness Thatcher too is an Oxford graduate , but when moves were made to confer an honorary degree on her in the nineteen eighties , she was turned down by the same people , amid stormy controversy . |
| 10 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 11 | James IV , idealistic and militaristic , ‘ first and foremost a warrior ’ as Dr Norman Macdougall has described him , spent at least £100,000 Scots ( rather more than three years ' income ) on artillery and even more on his navy ; £30,000 alone went on the building of the huge and spectacular Great Michael , a ship so impressive that it was promptly copied by Henry VIII , whose Henri Grace a Dieu was built virtually to the same specifications in 1512 , a year after the Michael 's completion . |
| 12 | That children also lingered in foster homes without any definite plan for their future care was taken seriously , but the indictment was levied more against the former than the latter . |
| 13 | The first review was written mainly for the many within and outside the congregation who had participated and therefore knew the scheme of things . |
| 14 | The A. & P. Gypsies , by the way , were among the very first stars to have a radio ‘ series ’ — a programme which was broadcast regularly from the same station at the same time of the same day of the week . |
| 15 | Instead the BDDA was founded later in the same year to advance and protect their interests in the United Kingdom . |
| 16 | Security sources said Major George Serhal was handed over to the former Lebanese president , Suleiman Franjieh . |
| 17 | The judge 's decision was handed down on the same day that Exxon announced that first-quarter profits for 1991 had leapt 75% over the same period last year , to $2.24 billion . |
| 18 | The question of radio reception was raised later in the same debate by the then Minister of State , Mr Masiye , who gave reasons for poor reception . |
| 19 | Firstly , the Ulster Special Constabulary , invented to supplement the main police force , was derived largely from the former Ulster Volunteer Force . |
| 20 | With much wider powers than its predecessor , the Secondary Examinations Council ( SEC ) , SEAC is also heir to the recommendations of another of the Secretary of State 's ad hoc working parties , the Task Group on Assessment and Testing ( TGAT ) which was set up at the same time as the first curriculum working groups and , like them , worked under enormous pressure to produce proposals for the assessment of the National Curriculum . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The four-month voyage back to England via the South pacific and Cape Horn was spent much in the same way as the outward voyage . |
| 23 | The consignment was brought over in the same way and after it was left in a lay-by in Lymm , Cheshire , Customs officers pounced when Scott arrived to collect it . |
| 24 | ‘ The aircraft turned over the breakwater and was followed out by the same intense gunfire . |
| 25 | Now she was sunk back in the same state , or perilously near to it . |
| 26 | The midwife rolled up her sleeves and toiled all night by the light of candles stuck in turnips , and just before dawn the baby was delivered on to the same straw mattress on which she had been conceived . |
| 27 | There was a lot of short-pitched bowling , with a vast array of slips and gullies , but Gooch ( 8 ) survived a low catch to Inzamam off Akram , and Stewart ( 14 ) was put down by the same fielder at full stretch off the same bowler when 14 . |
| 28 | The two-mile ridge on which both Panshanger and Maran Hill stood was composed entirely of the same mixture , locally known as ‘ hoggin . ’ |
| 29 | The split between Meciar 's Platform for a Democratic Slovakia and PAV was formalized later in the same month . |
| 30 | Much of Taskopruzade 's work is concerned with scholars of the period before there was what might properly be called a learned hierarchy ; and though in his own lifetime a hierarchy of learned offices existed and certainly the basic principles of the hierarchy had been formulated it was by no means as thoroughly elaborated or rigid as it was to become even in the few decades after his death . |