Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | six months was down to the two three pounds under the weight I was when I started . |
| 2 | Inevitably it did and Glasgow 's cafe bars gave an audible sigh of relief : champagne and chips was back on the menu . |
| 3 | The British Labour Party , after its stern admonitions at Southport , showed no signs of abandoning its decision that collaboration with Communists was out of the question . |
| 4 | The queen-dowager had her own reasons for wishing to keep her daughter-in-law close at hand — whilst accepting that her remaining in sanctuary in the circumstances was out of the question . |
| 5 | For a second she thought that the lost one was lost no more and Barbs was back on the beat , but then she saw that the women were about to share a can of something and were clearly old mates . |
| 6 | First the figures , furniture retailing continues to be highly competitive so I am pleased to report that turnover for the twenty eight weeks was through to the twenty million five point five percent better than the same period in the previous year . |
| 7 | No the li the lights was on in the tunnel . |
| 8 | Given that the massive exchange of populations was out of the question , it was clear that the Versailles politicians could not hope to solve the problems of forming homogeneous nation-state identities in Eastern Europe . |
| 9 | Overall , the number of postive tests was down across the region , but campaigners and the police say the figures are still not low enough . |
| 10 | ‘ And you think Parks was in on the Livesey case too ? ’ |
| 11 | But in the country as a whole , the number of skiers was down for the third year running , and was no higher than 12 years ago ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 12 | There were no roads of any sort , and rapid pursuit of tribal groups was out of the question . |