Example sentences of "[be] [verb] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is nowhere stated that the ground which had been occupied was to be abandoned , but that was the result . |
| 2 | Paul Lee , Orkney 's Social Work Director , consistently said that what had been done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 3 | The last time he 'd been seen was in a fight outside a pub in Carshalton , just ten miles from where the body was found . |
| 4 | The last time he 'd been seen was in a fight outside a pub in Carshalton , ten miles from where the body was found . |
| 5 | Here lay Mount Edgcombe House , which the Spanish Admiral , the Duke of Medina-Sidonia , had been promised was to be his . |
| 6 | The only way in which it could have been avoided was for de Gaulle to change his style of leadership . |
| 7 | The fundamental relationship upon which the economic , social , and political structure of the Empire had been based was to be dismantled . |
| 8 | Unfortunately the opening was dogged by controversy , because the track in which the route had been laid was of a type having a 1¼″ groove instead of the normal 1″ groove . |
| 9 | One area where the importance of process measurements had always been appreciated was in limestone areas and these were the focus of many of the earliest , and simplest process techniques developments . |
| 10 | Lt.-Col. Sekhobe Letsie , who had also been arrested was on March 21 formally charged with the murder of two former government ministers and their wives in 1986 [ see p. 34789 ] . |
| 11 | Until that time , the only statutory means by which payments of arrears in excess of the then statutory limit of 12 months could be made was by means of a late appeal to the social security appeal . |
| 12 | So on 13 and 14 March the best that could be done was for him to give Harwell full details and let them get on with it themselves ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 13 | The first course to be approved was in fact in Scotland , and was submitted to the CNAA with the support of the Scottish Education Department in 1970 . |
| 14 | Another engagement he was hoping to be offered was from Her Majesty — to be detained at her pleasure . |
| 15 | The area to be distributed was to be set by individual republics . |
| 16 | The last recorded nest with eggs to be found was in Norfolk , in 1868 . |
| 17 | Already the various structural elements in Nizan 's psychology are becoming apparent : a brooding sense of death nurtured in his formative months and years as an infant and as a child ; a childhood admiration for the values and life-style of his father , a man exuding certainty , conviction and power , a man involved in the practical problems of everyday existence ; a corresponding indifference for the seemingly hollow existence of his mother preoccupied with family duties , social functions and religious rites ; an implicit recognition that the path to be followed was to be located somewhere in the dynamic working-class origins of his father rather than in the passive middle-class origins of his mother ; a sense of loneliness as a child compensated by a deeply experienced relationship with his father , an idol , the source of knowledge and truth . |
| 18 | It is thought that the first bitch to be imported was from England , Attila Bathsheba , who was imported in whelp to a good dog , Upend Gallant Alf . |
| 19 | At the same time , the " whole way of life " towards which this change seemed to be directed was in conflict with the values of the " literary tradition " of which most English teachers still considered themselves the guardians . |
| 20 | The temperature range of the fish to be kept was from 70°s ; F ( 21°s ; C ) to 82°s ; F ( 28°s ; C ) so the temperature was set at 79°s ; F ( 26°s ; C ) . |
| 21 | The requirement that wrappers should be sent was of great importance to the Nestle Co. ; there would have been no point in their simply offering records for 1s. 6d. each . |
| 22 | The socialists maintained , with some justification , that the only way in which real grandeur could be achieved was through long-term economic modernization . |
| 23 | Until recently , the only means by which this could be achieved was by manual entry , involving many hours of repetitious labour . |
| 24 | ‘ I first investigated the possibility of studying for an occupational health certificate in 1975 , but at that time the only way that this could be achieved was by full-time studying and I could n't do that because of family commitments . |
| 25 | Inspector Brian Jaggs , of Braintree police , said yesterday that according to the alarm company the only way the £8,000 car could have been taken was to be physically removed by trailer , and it was likely it was stolen to order . |
| 26 | One particular pre-pilot study for which funds were sought was into night nursing . |
| 27 | The other way in which the economic aspects of military expenditure were presented was in the form of the public expenditure costs . |
| 28 | The other time I came near to being shot was in May , when nobody should have been firing a rifle . |
| 29 | The date on which they were re-charged was in 1973 and was used as a pretext to deprive them of the right to be tried by a jury . |
| 30 | The defendants claimed that what they were doing was in furtherance of their dispute with the provincial newspapers . |